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From: Margy <>
Subject: [CRF] Re: 21-gun salute
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:03:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: <40.fb7e114.28acc68e@aol.com>


Pat;
This is very true. I have been thinking about this also. As a matter of
fact I started work on a section of my website to try to honor some of the
WWII Veterans while they are *living* .... It seems that we should be doing
something now ... not after they are all gone. The question is ... how? I
thought I would open up a new section and invite people to submit pictures
and stories for WWII Veterans in their own families and give each his own
page ... but that seems so little. Anyone have any ideas of what I could do
to just to show in some small way that we respect them and appreciate what
they have done for all of us?

Margy


At 02:47 AM 8/16/2001 EDT, you wrote:
> I traveled to TN to a friend's funeral on Wednesday. He died of a
brain
>aneurysm. As a veteran of WW2, he had landed at Cherburg, France, as well
as
>other battlegrounds. At the burial site, Taps was played and there was a
>21-gun salute, a tribute to honor him.
> Our old soldiers are dying at a rate of 1,000 per day. How long will
it
>be before there are none left? And soon, when we talk about Taps and a
>21-gun salute, our gr' children will ask, "What's that?"
>Sad, but True!..........pat
>
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