May 28, 2007
The ceremony was simple but nice. A local 8th grader read a lovely essay he wrote for the VFW's Patriot's Pen essay contest. And there's something completely humbling about being in the presence of POWs. I got choked up every time I looked at their group.
This year I don't quite have anything poetic to say about Memorial Day. But that doesn't mean that certain families haven't been on my mind all day long. This year I'll leave the poetry to PFC Becker:
We are soldiers.
We are soldiers in the United States Army.
We are trained to be all we can be.We fight for the freedom of many citizens of the United States.
We are all ready to meet our fates.We all volunteer to defend the red, white and blue.
Not only the flag, but for the citizens of our great country too.Since our country's birth for all these years,
we have been trained to be the best on Earth.Many times we have went to war.
We will be involved in many more.Generation by generation soldiers continue to enlist.
Some of us will got to war and definitely be missed.Some soldiers will return and some won't.
Those who do not, we won't forget and we hope you don't.Many of us are going to Iraq.
Some of us won't be coming back.We have loved ones we are leaving behind.
They will always be in our prayers, hearts and mind.If we don't make it home safely at the end of the war,
just remember we died defending the beliefs of those of many more.---PFC Gunnar Becker, November 2003
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