Guest guest Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 Very touching Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Dearest CJ, Many mornings as I watch the sun between the palms and fronds of my peaceful refuge here in the woods, I think of the many years my own father spent in captivity under the imperialist reign of the Japanese over in the gorgeous tropics of the Philippines. It was there that the intense sun brought him many days of skin burns and their winters brought him severe isolation deep in the bowels of copper mines as he mined copper for Mitsubishi, so young, so far from his Tennessee home and only a boy-man of 19. Imprisoned for over 4 1/2 years and coming back to the USA weighing only 87 pounds. It was he and hundreds of thousands that fought for the freedom that we take for granted. I see the flag wave its colors and I remember the red for blood spilled for our freedom . It is our freedoms that people like your has taken up the fight and finally his life so that we can go where we want in the world and worship what we choose in the USA-- to be able to decide each day how we are to live-- because of someone like Brain whom I did not even know. Now I can speak his name on my lips, I can say now that I know someone else who has paid for my freedom, has paid the ultimate price, the ultimate gift which is his life for my freedom. Thank you for letting me know of his death. Be comforted that there are thousands like me who wake up each day and thank God for our freedom. " Freedom ain't free. " And forever and always there will be soldiers like your who will be giving up his own for ours. God Bless him, God Bless you. Be brave be strong and know that died to give us something that we can not ever give to others. It is the ultimate gift. Death for life. And know that in a small corner of the woods, there is a women that knows of men like Brain, for her own father did the very same. Sorrow is not for always, but honor and freedom are as long as people like Brain and Wood go to places to fight for what we sit at the breakfast table and give thanks for. Be not grieved, but honor Brain. It would be his wish for you. Love, Annie A poet is, after all, to see >Our entire family have been stricken with grief again with the news >that our nephew was killed in Babo Kheyl, Afghanistan on >Thursday July 10. >He is survived by his wife and five children. He was a good father >and husband. >We are extremely proud of his service to his country. >Please keep him and his wife and children in your thoughts and prayers. > >CJ I am sorry to hear this. We all need to keep him, his family, and close friends in our prayers. No matter what your opinion on politics or the war this hero and others are out there fighting for our freedom. And too many are paying the ultimate price. I really feel for his Wife and 5 children. May God watch over them in this very difficult time and in the future. Thank you CJ for sharing this loss. Dave, Reading PA ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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