Today culminates the finale of the last few weeks of hectic preperation. The cemeteries are all well groomed, the old Flags have been renewed, and are posted to half mast. The Main Chapel sunrise service, "To The Colors" and the gut wrenching bugle call of "TAPS", followed by a moment of silence, and ending with lowering of the Garrison Flag to half staff.
The VFW will host a breakfast at 1000Hrs, and the ride starts @ 1300. (No colors).
The president calls for a day of prayer.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060516-5.html
I humbly ask that you might find a moment in your busy schedule today and just do a look over at the Fallen site. You don't have to know anybody, but they all have names, and they all have families left behind. You don't have to agree with anything, or any policy, but these are the ones who have fallen doing their part for America.
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html
Memebrs of other great nations, behold the services that will be conducted on your lands today. Thou the circumstances might be different, but without those who lay entombed in those cemeteries, where would you be today?
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
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.
John McCrae