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Subject: Re: [CRF] Re: Mary; 21-gun salute
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:53:39 EDT
In a message dated 08/16/2001 10:07:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
> Although my brother has been in the Marines and also the Army
> Reserves and I have a nephew in the Army
> today who will be going to Japan in the next few weeks and If it was
> demanded of mine today I would want them to go...but I still do not
> want them to. Thats all of us Mother's and if our choice --Our's
> will never have to face the evil Our Father's had to.
>
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I'm old enough to remember those days of WW2. And, to remember the
night my parents received that much dreaded phone call, "Your son was killed
today."
21-gun salute and Taps is very hard for me to handle. Each year, on
Memorial Day, the local people honored those killed in WW2 and Korea. Their
names were on a monument at the local high school. I never attended the
service because I couldn't stand listening to the guns and Taps.
At my friend's burial this week, the person holding the American Flag
was a little old lady. In uniform, she stood staunch in the hot sun during
the entire service. Never moved a muscle. I couldn't help but wonder who
she was and what part she played in the military. The aging men, some who
could still wear them, were in uniform. They were unsteady on their feet,
but their patriotism was evident.
I remember when my husband's grandfather was at VA hospital. The nurses
were very attentive to him. They reminded us that he was one of very few men
left from the Spanish American War, a war we have nearly forgotten. He was
only about 15 when he served in that war.
............Pat
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