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From: Margaret Malloy <>
Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] This Veterans' Day
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:57:09 -0500
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Barb,

Thank you for a lovely post. I have veterans up and down the
genealogical stream. Don't forget the families of today's soldiers. In
WW2 everyone was in it together and the assumption was that everyone
had someone serving. Today's families get precious little support from
their communities. If not for an online group some mothers formed, I
would have gone mad.

This will become one of our family stories for the future but if you
know someone today with a deployed loved one, call, email, do
something to let them know you are thinking of them. Maybe you will
become part of their family story.

Margaret


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> Thank you to all our veterans, living, beloved, and ancestral for
> their
> personal sacrifices that insured the freedoms that we enjoy today.
> God bless all,
> and the
> American families that did without you, and the lives they knew.
>
> Thank you to the women who kept the homefires burning: raised the
> children,
> worked the factories, hung stars of hope in their windows, lit
> candles,
> invented recipes from rationed goods, did without, prayed novenas
> for the nameless,
> and walked behind hearses to bury their dead, if remains ever came
> home to the
> USA.
>
> I will always remember our veterans, and mine back to the
> Revolutionary War.
>
> Thank you Korean War vets; perhaps one day that war will be
> officially over.
>
> Welcome HOME to our Viet Nam vets whether you served by enlistment
> or draft
> in
> this "military action." May you know in your hearts that the
> protesters were
> against war, but for getting each of you safely home.
>
> Thank you to those who fight and serve at home and in foreign lands
> now, and
> to your families. Your sacrifices and worries are beyond my
> imagination.
>
> And, thanks to "The Colonel." I miss you ever day, Dad, especially
> on this
> first Veterans' Day since you died. I only regret that you lived for
> sixty
> years before you learned from a VN Vet that you battled PTSD your
> entire adult
> life. Maybe this will help someone else.
>
> If you think Veterans Day is not a genealogical topic...just hit
> delete.
>
> @ 2008 Barb, N of NYC
>

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