Re: Freedom isn't free

[Gail and Lou <lfghm@ibm.net>]

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After reading about twenty-five caring  messages today, I guess I feel the
need to express my sincere gratitude as the wife and sister-in-law of Vietnam
veterans.  Even though both these men are high powered, loving individuals,
they still pay every day...and wish as others that no one has to fight...

laurel wrote:

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> FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
>
> 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 foxholes were soldiers' graves?
> No Freedom is not 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!!
>
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