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About: Military Service
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“If you can read this, thank a teacher….

For the fact that it’s in English,
rather than German, Russian, Japanese or Arabic,

….Thank our military.”

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MEMORIAL DAY
© Copyright 2013 Richard Lee King

Memorial Day approaches… As soldiers’ step to the fore,
we’ll celebrate their service, just as so many times before.

We’ll thank them for their gift, because of them, freedom reigns,
maybe not for the entire world, but at least they’re making gains.

Today we’ll honor those we’ve lost, for a moment, we’ll remember,
then we’ll put the memories away, until a day in mid-November.

We’ll take their gift for granted, at least til Veterans Day,
but their gift is all encompassing in nearly every single way.

Freedom, bought and paid for by the blood of our brave soldiers,
with the fate of the entire world, thrust upon their shoulders.

365 days a year our soldiers pay the price
yet according to our calendar, we honor them only twice.

It’s nice we have this day, to honor their sacrifice
but if we honored them every day, it would be 365 times as nice.

We need to tell them thank you, more than just two days a year,
express more appreciation for the way they’ve calmed our fear.

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