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Memorial Day Comments
Good words to consider on this holiday.
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A SACRED CALLING
by Mike Norman
NOW I KNOW WHY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TO WAR YEARN TO REUNITE
NOT TO TELL STORIES OR LOOK AT OLD PICTURES. NOT TO LAUGH AND TO WEEP
COMRADES GATHER BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN WITH MEN WHO ONCE ACTED AT THEIR BEST
MEN WHO SUFFERED AND SACRIFICED TOGETHER
WHO WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR HUMANITY
I DID NOT PICK THESE MEN
THEY WERE DELIVERED BY THE MILITARY AND BY FATE.
BUT I KNOW THEM IN A WAY I KNOW NO OTHER MEN
I HAVE NEVER GIVEN ANYONE SUCH TRUST
THEY WERE WILLING TO GUARD SOMETHING MORE PRECIOUS THAN MY LIFE
THEY WOULD HAVE CARRIED MY REPUTATION, THE MEMORY OF ME
IT WAS PART OF THE BARGAIN WE ALL MADE
THE REASON WE WERE SO WILLING TO DIE FOR ONE ANOTHER
AS LONG AS I HAVE MEMORY, I WILL THINK OF THEM EVERY DAY
I AM SURE WHEN I LEAVE THIS WORLD, MY LAST THOUGHTS WILL BE
OF MY GOD, MY FAMILY AND MY COMRADES. SUCH GOOD MEN.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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