Monday, 28 May 2007
Winners and Losers
Contributed by J D

J. D. Pendry

“O beautiful for heroes proved,
in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life…”
- O Beautiful for Spacious Skies, Katharine L Bates, 1904

Small American flags dotted the cemetery, each of them marking the resting place of a Veteran. The cemetery caretakers place them there. A small, solitary flag is all that marked some graves. Maybe their visitors would come later in the day.

Each time I take in that scene I cannot help but wonder, without Americans such as these “who more than self their country loved”, where might we be today? Or, what might we be? Their sacrifices throughout our history have allowed us to live free and prosper. They are winners, “heroes proved”, all of them. They were winners when winning mattered.

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Contributed by J D on May 28, 2007 at 04:23 PM in Caring about our troops, J D Pendry, Memorial Day | Permalink

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