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Offline Relic

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Independence Day
« on: July 04, 2011, 01:01:00 AM »
There's a price paid for the liberties we cherish.  As I stood, silent, tears streaming dowm my cheeks, a bugler sounded a last fairwell to a dear friend, a comrade in arms, a hero.  In the hallowed earth of Arlington, he rests.  In his memory I wrote these words.

Taps carried on a sunset's breeze
Old Glory lowered at day's end
I remember when those bugler's notes
Were played to say "Amen"

Coffin draped with Spangled Banner
Brave soldier laid to rest
We're gifted a hero's sacrifice
Those sad brass tones attest

"The scarlet cost of freedom"
"Bloody price of liberty"
Simpler words express it best;

"Freedom is not free."
Land of the free, because of the brave.

Offline Richard S

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Re: Independence Day
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2011, 08:38:36 AM »
(1963-1967) "GO ARMY!"

Offline LostangelinTX

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Re: Independence Day
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2011, 11:40:04 AM »
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Offline Reinz

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Re: Independence Day
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2011, 12:01:36 PM »
Well said.
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Offline kjtrains

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Re: Independence Day
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2011, 04:04:18 PM »
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There's a price paid for the liberties we cherish.  As I stood, silent, tears streaming dowm my cheeks, a bugler sounded a last fairwell to a dear friend, a comrade in arms, a hero.  In the hallowed earth of Arlington, he rests.  In his memory I wrote these words.

Taps carried on a sunset's breeze
Old Glory lowered at day's end
I remember when those bugler's notes
Were played to say "Amen"

Coffin draped with Spangled Banner
Brave soldier laid to rest
We're gifted a hero's sacrifice
Those sad brass tones attest

"The scarlet cost of freedom"
"Bloody price of liberty"
Simpler words express it best;

"Freedom is not free."

Excellent words, Relic.  Thanks!
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.  Abraham Lincoln