In Memory of Supreme Sacrifice for Country

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.

“Ode of Remembrance” from Laurence Binyon’s poem, “For the Fallen” (1914)

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“The very soul of a nation is its heroes”

Their sacrifices, their pain, their selfless courage must continue to burn like an eternal     flame in our memory.
                                                                    Gen. Colin Powell

When we mourn for such men who have died, ….we should thank God that such men were born.

Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

As I wept inside, I asked, Lord, where did we get such men?  And I was reminded, if a nation is to be great, if a nation truly is to be the land of the free, that it also must be the…