It is not about holiday picnics or flags or auto racing or swimming and family fun.
... or a BBQ at the setting of the sun.
It is about remembering young men who fell dying and in agony into the arms of a loving country, while serving so far away
from ... home!
Gone forever.
Wives and children gone forever.
Holidays ... gone forever.
Friends and old age ... gone forever.
It is a solemn day for each of us who survived.
It is a day of silence and a hand salute.
A day of deep remembrance.
By
Lou J. Klaiber
Copyright 2003 Listed
January 3, 2010
Lou served in Vietnam in 3 Corps Vietnam during 1965 - 1966 as a Sergeant E-5.
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