Amen Robert.
RTR
LC
--- Robert Springfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On this Memorial Day let us not forget that our
> young men and women are dying in a foreign land.
>
> It is certainly not the first time that our sons and
> daughters, our husbands and wives have answered the
> call. I am afraid though that this will not be the
> last time.
>
> There are readers of Bama Fan, I am certain, who
> have experienced the tragedy of combat.
>
> When those GI's gathered before the Chaplin on the
> eve of battle to receive his blessing ,they felt
> those "butterflies" in the pits of their stomachs.
> No one knew if they would see another sunset.
>
> I feel it is fitting to remember our young men and
> women by quoting from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg
> Address.
>
> ".....The world will little note, nor long remember
> what we say here, but it can never forget what they
> did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be
> dedicated here to the unfinished work which they
> 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 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 this earth."
>
> On this Memorial Day I shall be thinking of my
> buddies. I hope you all do too.
> >
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