For Memorial Day remember the Angel
Flights :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsnD87uOeo
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Memorial Day has come to mean the beginning of summer, a time
for picnics and barbecues, and a holiday to gather around the family. That
happiness and freedom, however, is a product of the real cause for the holiday:
the sacrifice made by men and women who have fought and died for the freedoms
and liberties Americans hold dear. Memorial Day is a time to remember that the
American way of life is not cheap but rather has been purchased by the lives
and blood of so many who have sacrificed for us to live free and happily now.
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae -
1872-1918
In Flanders fields the
poppies blow
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.
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