Memorial Day Thoughts
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Memorial Day Thoughts
Memorial Day blessings, as someone said yesterday.
Before I go out and work on the C5, which I named The Spirit of America, I wanted to take a moment and think of all those who sacrificed themselves for our nation.
To include,
CPT Nathan Dalley
SFC John Marshall
SGT Justin Jordan
SGT Jason Garvey
PFC Damian Heidelberg
among many others
If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
-Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell, Dak To, Vietnam (MIA/KIA)
Before I go out and work on the C5, which I named The Spirit of America, I wanted to take a moment and think of all those who sacrificed themselves for our nation.
To include,
CPT Nathan Dalley
SFC John Marshall
SGT Justin Jordan
SGT Jason Garvey
PFC Damian Heidelberg
among many others
If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
-Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell, Dak To, Vietnam (MIA/KIA)
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Memorial Day blessings, as someone said yesterday.
Before I go out and work on the C5, which I named The Spirit of America, I wanted to take a moment and think of all those who sacrificed themselves for our nation.
To include,
CPT Nathan Dalley
SFC John Marshall
SGT Justin Jordan
SGT Jason Garvey
PFC Damian Heidelberg
among many others
If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
-Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell, Dak To, Vietnam (MIA/KIA)
Before I go out and work on the C5, which I named The Spirit of America, I wanted to take a moment and think of all those who sacrificed themselves for our nation.
To include,
CPT Nathan Dalley
SFC John Marshall
SGT Justin Jordan
SGT Jason Garvey
PFC Damian Heidelberg
among many others
If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
-Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell, Dak To, Vietnam (MIA/KIA)
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This week marks the 46th anniversary of your death. Families and friends will be getting together this Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the unofficial start of summer. Unfortunately, most will give little or no thought to you or the thousands upon thousands of brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. I will think about you and all the others as I do every day. Your smile is forever etched into my minds eye.
Today I am reminded of how truly blessed I am to be able to smell the delicate fragrance of blooming lilacs, the aroma of countless grills riding the breeze in our neighborhood, and the scent of freshly mowed grass. All simple pleasures that you gave up so long ago in a land so far away. You are greatly missed and will never be forgotten. I have kept your spirit alive in my heart and you will always be my hero. Semper Fidelis
In memory of PFC John A. Dennis
KIA May 31, 1968
Con Thien RVN
Today I am reminded of how truly blessed I am to be able to smell the delicate fragrance of blooming lilacs, the aroma of countless grills riding the breeze in our neighborhood, and the scent of freshly mowed grass. All simple pleasures that you gave up so long ago in a land so far away. You are greatly missed and will never be forgotten. I have kept your spirit alive in my heart and you will always be my hero. Semper Fidelis
In memory of PFC John A. Dennis
KIA May 31, 1968
Con Thien RVN
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