Thanks for sharing those. They were excellent.
Last evening while I was getting my father ready for bed (he’ll be ninety in January)he asked if I knew what day today was...My reply August 15th, 1945,2009.
Dad was in the South Pacific, in forty five, but whenever we hear or sing the national antham we follow it with August 15,1945 and the year as a benediction
Dad knew at that point that the war was soon over in the Pacific too and the three-plus years of not seeing, or talking with family would soon come to an end. (I was born nine months after he returned)
The family recites it in memory of all the young men who gave their lives for our freedom.
August 15,1945—2009