I totally freaked out a WWII veteran at church by hugging him and thanking him for making the world a safer place to raise my daughter. He said it had been years since anyone had thanked him for his service.
My father used to take us to the Veterans' Day ceremonies and then tell us to go up to a vet, shake his hand (they were all men when I was three or four) and thank them for their service to this country. I have begun the same thing with my daughter although we were at church this year and didn't make the local ceremony.
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Date: 2007-11-12 02:30 pm (UTC)...and then there's this other poem (http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html), just as well known these days, from the very same war.
May they rest in peace.
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Date: 2007-11-13 04:41 pm (UTC)My father used to take us to the Veterans' Day ceremonies and then tell us to go up to a vet, shake his hand (they were all men when I was three or four) and thank them for their service to this country. I have begun the same thing with my daughter although we were at church this year and didn't make the local ceremony.
Thanks for posting the poem!