Memorial Day -not horticulture related
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- From: J* B*
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 00:11:57 -0500
Jack Bilson Jr.
Rosy Hem Garden
Joplin, Missouri - zone 6
A friend passed the following message on to me. For many personal reasons,
this is an important holiday to me.
Enjoy
Take care,
Jack
Memorial Day
"It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of
our country in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see
these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something
like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them
were boys when they died, they gave up two lives -- the one they were
living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up
their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave
up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for
their county, for us. All we can do is remember."
-- Ronald Wilson Reagan
Remarks at Veteran's Day ceremony, Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia, November 11, 1985
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