Remembering Their Sacrifice

Please take some time to view this blog posted 10/20/2009 on the White House blog. All too often we forget the sacrifice the men and women have paid for our freedom. I will always remember talking to gentleman last year in an assisted living home and he was recalling returning home from the Vietnam war and how his country turned their back to him. Also another gentleman who is in a home for people with dementia and other mental challenges. He is younger than I am.

Presidential Unit Citation: Blackhorse Regiment

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

Sacrifice

As I passed by a grave site
I heard a voice whisper to me.
Please stop for just a moment
and realize why you are so free.

I was a young soldier
fighting and alone.
I sacrificed all I had
so you could have what we call home.

All I ask is you take time,
to be thankful as can be,
for it was also because of their sacrifice
others gave, just like me.

So now if you’re wondering
if all our work is done?
No for we are now in God’s army of angels,
Still protecting you all one by one.


See God also paid the sacrifice
and He like us pray it was not for naught.
We the soldiers for your freedom
and Christ for your salvation on the Cross.

E. P. Shagott
5/26/09