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I could have made it about sweet-hearts on Valentine's Day or what would have been the 34th anniversary of the wedding of Lupe and Ricardo.
But I've chosen to make it about the war veterans, who are dying at a high rate.
Some I think are due to drinking too much, as a way to drown the nightmares of war.
To be more down to the point, I will speak of one of the few surviving veterans of World War I.
Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108.
Where that information came from
I was in a fast food resturant, it was in the news-cast, a lady coming from the ladies room, took a peek on what was on, it must not have been interesting to her, she just turned away.
Siegfried Sassoon, wrote a poem about the disabled of the war he fought in World War I; Does it Matter?
Does it matter?様osing your legs?...
For people will always be kind,
And you need not show that you mind
When the others come in after hunting
To gobble their muffins and eggs.
Does it matter ?様osing your sight?...
There's such splendid work for the blind;
And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the light.
Do they matter?葉hose dreams from the pit?...
You can drink and forget and be glad,
And people won't say that you're mad;
For they'll know you've fought for your country
And no one will worry a bit.
My dear Siegfried, you would not believe, how much the world has changed since you wrotes those words about a war that was to end all war.
There was another World War and several small wars in the 20th Century.
Here we are in the 21th century, and man still hasn't learn to get along.
A veteran from your war died recently and for some it didn't really matter.
They will be so kind. . .we have veterans returning from our most recent war, some terribly dis-abled, will my countrymen be so kind as your countrymen were to yours?
Now only one man survives from our armed forces that fought in your war, and he all of 107 years young.
When he gone, they than will close the books and all will than live in history.
We were lucky that some left their stories behind, to tell us of the deeds they did and what happened.
I wrote a little poem, who closing words were;
Yes, I seen them, every time a widow get a folded American flag.
Were my countrymen so kind, while that veteran was alive?
Semper Fidelis
Ricardo
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" Duty is the most sublime word in the English language.
"Excellence doesn't just happen.
"To control the past,
"They were the best you had, America,
and you turned your back on them". ~ Joe Galloway ~ Speaking about Vietnam Veterans
You can never do more,
you should never wish to do less."
~ Robert E. Lee writing to his son ~
It must be forged, tested and used.
It must be passed down.
And woven into the very fabric of our souls.
Until it becomes our nature."
~ General Charles C. Krulak ~
31st Commandment of the Marine Corps
Is to give meaning to the present,
And direction to the future."