this Memorial Day
May. 31st, 2010 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerIn memoriam
Nathaniel Burton Paradise, Second Lieutenant, US Army
302nd Infantry, 151st Infantry Brigade, 76th Division
American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919
Kenneth Franklin Spoor, Master Sergeant, US Army
US Army Air Corps
China-Burma-India Theater, 1942-1945
And my thanks and respect to all my friends and colleagues and their comrades who serve and protect our country. It's been too often repeated as a political slogan or a facile declaration of jingoistic patriotism, but it's still true: freedom is not free, and ours is purchased, in part, by the toil and hardship, and too often of late, by the blood and bodies of our fellow citizens. God bless them, and God bless the United States of America.
Nathaniel Burton Paradise, Second Lieutenant, US Army
302nd Infantry, 151st Infantry Brigade, 76th Division
American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919
Kenneth Franklin Spoor, Master Sergeant, US Army
US Army Air Corps
China-Burma-India Theater, 1942-1945
And my thanks and respect to all my friends and colleagues and their comrades who serve and protect our country. It's been too often repeated as a political slogan or a facile declaration of jingoistic patriotism, but it's still true: freedom is not free, and ours is purchased, in part, by the toil and hardship, and too often of late, by the blood and bodies of our fellow citizens. God bless them, and God bless the United States of America.
