To The Editor:
I am a veteran of the United States military forces. I am a widow of a veteran who served in war times. Memorial Day was always a “special day” in our family. We would go to the cemetery and put flowers and flags on relatives’ graves and remember the good times we had when we listened to their stories about boot camp or the night they “stood guard” of the enemy. We heard stories about the friend who came home in a box and the sadness felt when after being home on leave, we had to go back to the place where we felt alone in a sea of danger. The memories are good ones for those of us who came home. They are sad ones for the families having to bury their loved ones.
We are a proud bunch, we veterans. We served our country, we protected of families in war and peace, but most of all we stood proud when we told the families about finding our God with us in the fox hole, in the cold and lonely rice paddy or in the soldiers’ eyes as we held them and promised to tell their families how brave they had been right before they drew their final breath.
God bless you and us for remembering our fallen heroes on this day, Memorial Day 2010.
CHARLOTTE BEHELER
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