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To: sodpoodle

Thank you very much, sodpoodle. These anecdotes cause gratitude to God, America, and our military, to well up inside me, and spill over into tears.


16 posted on 06/02/2018 11:05:27 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative
...to well up inside me, and spill over into tears.

You too?

Damn, I'm proud to be an American!

24 posted on 06/02/2018 12:19:34 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lUw-sgxZI0

Above is a link to a local Christian musician. He wrote a song called “Unknown”. He has a long intro on how the song came to be. He came across a WWI cemetery for Americans (Belleu Woods). At 3:00 in he talks about how as he walkther through the cemetery he came upon a cross marker that said “Here lies an American soldier, unknown but to God.”

At 4:00 in he starts singing. The song wonders about “Isn’t there a father, mother, brother, sister wondering when he’ll be home? Somebody that knew all of his hopes and dreams...”

Sad song, but comforting in that God knew (knows?) all about him, and he is not forgotten. I’ve read where in some of these small towns with an American cemetery, the town people still take great pride and care for them.


31 posted on 06/02/2018 1:28:51 PM PDT by 21twelve
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