Memorial Day is Monday

bruno

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Memorial Day is Monday. This song - originally written for the Movie "We were Soldiers" and sung in that movie by the USMA Glee Club is especially appropriate for Memorial Day. Go listen to it on You Tube or get the movie sound track. Even more importantly- remember those soldiers, sailors Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen who never came home. For them:

THE MANSIONS OF THE LORD

To fallen soldiers, let us sing,
Where no rockets fly or bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord.
No more bleeding, no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night,
Just divine embrace, eternal light
In the Mansions of the Lord.
Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord.
-Music by N i c k G le n n i e -Smith
—Text by Randall Wallace

"As I rendered my salute, I thought about the fallen soldier. I did not know his name, his unit or his home. I never saw his face or spoke to his family. I did not know why he volunteered for the Army or what he was doing when he was killed. But there was much I did know. I knew he had fought and died in an honorable cause, a cause that had little to do with our policy on Afghanistan. This soldier had volunteered to put his very life on the line in service to his nation and his brothers-in-arms. I see no more honorable cause that that...War does not make our sacrifice honorable, death does not make our service honorable; service itself is our honor.
We, your American service members, do not see the cause for which we may give our last full measure of devotion, as our nation's goals in Iraq or Afghanistan, and perhaps that is the difference. Our cause is our nation, in all her beautiful, imperfect glory.
So on a dark night in Afghanistan we stood under a velvet sky of a million stars to honor one man who lay under 50. We never doubted what he died for. Pfc. Patrick A. Devoe II died for you, the United States of America."

" Sarah Albrycht: US Army - Afghanistan 2009.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEsQ1I3zoE

Here is a good link for the song. What an amazing song, I got chills listening.

This is a good link- thanks. The second song on it is "Sgt MacKenzie"- a Scottish song written to remember a Sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders killed in WWI. Monday is the day to do as the song asks: Say a prayer and remember all of the Soldiers who have given their lives in the service of the country- about 625,000 of them. Lt Scot Cummins: I remember you especially Ranger. Hooah- I miss you.
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone

When they come I will stand my ground
Stand my ground I'll not be afraid
Thoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears

Once a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember me

Never more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gun

Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone

Where before many more have gone
 
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When I think of memorial day, I think of the quote Winston Churchill made.
Although it was spoken to the men that fought in the battle of Britain, I think it is appropriate sentence for all those who have fought and fallen for OUR freedom.

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many, to so few"

I shall say a prayer for all those who have fallen, and will remember them, and what they did for us.

USMAalltheway
 
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