| Get Together Youngbloods Love is but a song to sing Fear's the way we die You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry Though the bird is on the wing And you may not know why Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now Some may come and some may go We shall surely pass When the one that left us here Returns for us at last We are but a moment's sunlight Fading in the grass Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now If you hear the song I sing You will understand (listen!) You hold the key to love and fear All in your trembling hand Just one key unlocks them both It's there at you command Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now Come on people now Smile on your brother Everybody get together Try to love one another Right now Right now ... Right now...... |
| This Page is a Dedication to Veterans of All Wars.....and the ones they left behind, In Hopes that we have learned something from the past. Peace. |
| A Letter Home.... Dear ......... How am I? I've been bawled out, balled up, held up, held down, bulldozed, blackjacked, walked on, cheated , squeezed, and mooched....stuck for tax, income tax, excess profit tax, war bonds, stamps, U.S.O. , Red Cross...... double-crossed, asked to help the Nation, the President, congress, FBI, Navy Army, Marines, Air Corps, Allies, War Refugees and Unions. Lived in foxholes, slit trenches, dugouts, trains, ships, trucks, camps, barns, strawstacks, rice paddies, jungles, palaces, and puptents. Ate dehydrated eggs, chicken, turkey, bread, apples, peaches, soup and nuts. Taken shots and pills for a thousand pains and diseases. Bathed in pollywog pools, seas, swamps, helmets, oilcans, springs, streams, rivers, wells and stock-troughs. All my Gals are engaged, married, having kids, going with 4Fs, Statesmen, business men, U.S.O., Commandos, college boys and helping everyones' morale but mine. I've given, drew and sweated blood. Been bombed, shelled, mortared, shot at, shot up, shot down, and shot full of fear. Walked run, crawled, jumped, climbed and rolled a million miles....Fought mosquitos, gnats, flies, ants, lice, rats, Krauts, Japs, V.C. and my fellow men. Have drunk everything under the stars, moon and sun. Been cussed, discussed, talked to, talked about, lied to, lied about, robbed and damn near ruined..... And the only reason I'm hanging around now, waiting for the earth and sky to settle down again, is to see what in the hell happens next! Signed, A Serviceman Any War..... |
| HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD |
| In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. |
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| John McCrae: In Flanders Fields (1915) |
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| "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 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." Major Michael O'Donnell KIA March 24, 1970 - Dak To, Vietnam |
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