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Thanks to all of you for your kind words.

It's the Freepers who contribute and read the Foxhole who make it what it is.

If the Foxhole makes someone appreciate, even a little, what others have sacrificed for us, then it has accomplished one of it's missions.

I hope the Foxhole in some small way helps us to remember and honor those who came before us.

The great German poet, Goethe, said to his generation:

"What you have inherited from your fathers,
earn over again for yourselves or it will not be yours."

We inherited freedom.
We seem unaware that freedom has to be remade
and re-earned in each generation of man.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes.
Shameful is the one that, having heroes - Forgets them!
from a monument on the Davis Bridge Battlefield, Bolivar, TN

Those Who Have Long Enjoyed Such Privileges As We Enjoy,
Forget In Time that Men Have Died To Win Them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt