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To: SAMWolf
"You can also help this afford by contacting your U.S. Senator. A list of U.S. Senators can be found at http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm, please call, write, and/or e-mail your Senators Please read the proposed citation for the Congressional Medal of Honor for Major (retired) Richard Winters below and form your own opinion; then contact your Senator."

Done and Done!

"He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
-HENRY V, Shakespeare

103 posted on 01/21/2004 3:56:20 PM PST by Colt .45 (Cold War, Vietnam Era, Desert Storm Veteran - Pride in my Southern Ancestry!)
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To: Colt .45
Thanks, Colt .45

Good quote from Henty V.
104 posted on 01/21/2004 3:58:33 PM PST by SAMWolf (I am Mr. T of Borg. I pity da fool that resists me.)
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