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To: redrock; MeekOneGOP; ALOHA RONNIE; Mudboy Slim; Landru; sultan88; jla; BraveMan

"I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play,
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea,
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free."
........

God Bless our troops, and their famlies.
Thank you for your service.


72 posted on 05/29/2004 9:43:41 PM PDT by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: FBD
Beautiful!!!

Thanks.

redrock

76 posted on 05/30/2004 12:27:09 AM PDT by redrock ("Better a Shack in Heaven....than a Mansion in Hell"---My Grandma)
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