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Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died. We cherish, too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields. And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson...

*snip* A veterans groups called The Veteran Defenders of America has now answered that question. In a documented Call-to-Action titled a – A Declaration to Restore the Constitutional Republic – former Military and Law Enforcement Officers have come together to demand that all oath-takers immediately execute their oaths in preservation of the Constitutional Republic. At present, every member of the Military, Law Enforcement, Justice, Congress and federal employment is in direct violation of their oaths. As they stand idly by allowing an anti-American transformation of our constitutional form of government, they do so in direct violation of the oaths they...

The Veterans Day Parade in New York City will start at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue and proceed to 46th Street.Earlier, there will be a ceremony at 23rd-26th Street.Even earlier, there will be ceremonies starting at 7 a.m.Free Republic members and others who wish to join an enthusiastic Support the Troops gathering at the parade, please meet in front of the Starbucks at the southwest corner of 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue, at 10:30 a.m.We will have a sign this time, so we can be found! That evening, for those who can...