Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Our Nation’s Best – v3

They stand on guard once more
in harm’s way, in hostile lands,
answering our nation’s call
They stand on point
in the places of death
of sectarian factions
of conflict, of war,
where the madmen
long to loose the whirlwinds.

They stand watch, they are vigilant,
where we would choose never to be
standing in the crosshairs
walking near the mines, the chaos
around the blind corners
trusting in their brothers,
their sisters under arms,
their only hope in returning home,
their comrades, save for God

They stand in the fields,
these foreign lands,
ready to protect us, our beliefs
to defend America, this nation,
with their lives, if they must,
Standing in the breach
Heroes of this land
one and all, each veteran,
Remembered a little more
each Veteran’s Day.


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edited November 11, 2014
Our Nation’s Best – v3

Veteran’s Day
edited May 25, 2014
Our Nation’s Best – v2
Memorial Day, May 28, 2007 13:55
Our Nation’s Best
In the period from Memorial Day 2006 to Memorial Day 2007,
982 soldiers and Marines died in Iraq (per AP reports).
At least 3,452 members of the U.S. military have died
since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003 (per AP reports).
At least 325 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion
of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.


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