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Great. I was just thinking to myself, hmm what can I watch that will make my eyes well up with tears?
Thank you to all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us. It is indeed an honor to live in this country and it was an honor to serve amongst better men than I.
Thank you for your service.I witnessed something as a child that forever changed me, even at such a young age, it stuck with me to this day, and I will never, ever forget what I felt that day, and all the days since! On that day, several of us neighborhood kids were out in my yard playing as kids do, when a strange car pulled up to the neighbors house. Two very smartly dressed Naval officers in Dress Blues exited that car, soon followed by a holy man in a uniform! My mother, being a Navy wife screamed at first, thinking the car was ment for her, and then quickly broke up the group of us and told every one to go home NOW! Mom than ran as fast as she could with my baby brother in her arms to the neighbors house, she made it just in time to catch that poor mother who had just been informed of her oldest son's death! You have never experienced emotional agony until you have heard the whail of the wife or mother who has just learned of a death of her solder, her life has just stopped, the whole world is spinning, and there is nothing to ease that kind of pain! I witnessed two more such visits as a child, and they all affected me deeply! When I joined, I was reminded by my mother and a few weeks later my Wife to be, don't you ever get killed, the though of a "Offical car" visiting would drive them out if their minds!
I often thought of my Wife and my Mother, vowing to my self that I would do my utmost to ensure that neiter would ever experience that most horrible thing, something many, way to many have had to experience! I often thought of those who died in front of me, how hard it would be for those left behind, knowing that even though I had nothing to do with their death, some how feeling responsable and for the experience yet to come when the flag wrapped coffin returns a fallen solder to his family back home!
Memorial day for me is a difficult day for me, I have experienced so much, and I know what lies ahead for those gold star families! I take comfort in having been the last living person many of those solders saw, holding their hand and praying for them or over their bodies, being the first to drape the Flag across their broken bodies in a small show of well earned respect and admiration! I am forever grateful to those who have served, those who fell, and those who never made it home! God speed one and all, this brotherhood of ours must some day end, let it end with pride and honor!