Today is Memorial Day.
monday quotes: Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg, poet, 1878-1967)
War would end if the dead could return. (Stanley Baldwin, English statesman, 1867-1947)
I was lucky; my father came home. He never spoke about World War II. I know he drove a tank. I know that he was in Africa and I know that he was in Japan. I never heard him say a word about it, but I was proud of him anyway.
To every man and woman who has ever served in the military and to everyone who lives with the loss of their soldier...thank you.
this day evokes so many emotions. As a non combat vet, I've always felt a sense of guilt for not having stood in harms way with my brethren.
ReplyDeleteYet I always felt an even stronger sense of pride for having served. Odd, huh?