NortonPete
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 Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:00 am Post subject: We Lost A good Marine Today. |
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I was moved with this local newspaper report: NJDAILYRECORD
| Quote: | Local Marine, a Roxbury High grad, killed in Iraq
Dies after roadside blast; 'always wanted' to serve
BY MATT MANOCHIO
DAILY RECORD
1 Comment
ROXBURY -- A Marine who graduated from Roxbury High School in 2005 and was engaged to be married was killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb detonated near his Humvee, military officials said Thursday.
Pfc. Donald Brown, 19, was one of four Marines killed in Iraq on Wednesday, said Maj. Thomas Garnett, a casualty assistance call officer for the Marines stationed at Picatinny Arsenal.
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I searched for someway to repond as this Newspaper allows comments:
I turned to my only source SwiftVets and found Dusty's contribution
| Quote: | By Kelly Strong, USCG (Ret.) Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:57 pm
I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease..
I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea.
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night, When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin. Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children, Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free. |
Thank You Dusty and thanks to this Forum. |
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