Posted on 05/28/2017 7:56:36 PM PDT by Meadow Muffin
Mallon, Bishop, Moreland, John, Brown, Jones, Norbut, Sherbone, Cleghorn, Pflasterer, Neuss, Francis, Hazzard.
50 years ago seems like yesterday.
“Our men and women in uniform have made us safer and more secure, and we were eternally grateful to them, but war and suffering and hardship still remain in too many corners of the globe. And a lot of those men and women who we celebrate on Veterans Day and Memorial Day come back and find that, when it comes to finding a job or getting the kind of care that they need, we’re not always there the way we need to be.”—Obama, 2012
Saving Private Ryan Ending Scene [Spoiler]
https://youtu.be/IZgoufN99n8
“They shall not grow old, as we who are left have grown old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years confound. In the morning and at the going down of the sun, we will remember them.”
Welcome home brother.
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN McCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
A few days early but I may put on The Longest Day.
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