Sad Veterans Day

[birdie]

Veterans Day and a sad welcome home For Cpl Young.

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[Art-n-Marge]

God bless and keep our active duty service personnel safe. For the veterans who served and returned to the rest of us who can only express our appreciation, thanks for being there, then passing the baton of freedom-keeping.

No matter how distant or detached we are from the fallen hero, there's always the common, close and deep feelings of having to share their loss through thoughts and prayers to the directly affected family and friends. Knowing these sacrifices will never cease, knowing there will be others who fall; we pray for the best and pray when it's worse because they have preserved the freedom to do so.

And for those who don't feel the same as us, just realize you have been given the freedom to willingly think that way because of the efforts and sacrifices of a few. There are plenty of others in this world ready to try and take it away and reduce you to a closet freedom worshipper.

Now, I'll say a few prayers to Cpl Young and his family. Let's remember this does not just happen on Veteran's Day.

[scott]

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

President Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863