I have a rendezvous with the memory of 58,169 comrades.

[HereSince1628]

A contemplation on lives unfinished,
of dreams long past and now beyond recalling,
of cemeteries yet unfilled,
of a lesson tragically unlearned,
Of coming home when they did not.
They will not benefit from the ceremonies
so much as I would from their forgiveness.

[leetrisck]

1. Thank you

and thank you again.

[madokie]

2. I promise to never forget their sacrifice

Sometime I wonder just who were the lucky one's

[dbt]

3. The brothers and sisters who died in the First Viet Nam

made it possible for fools like me to run around free in America. Their blood calls out to me all these decades later and I can never pay them what I owe.

:patriot:
dbt
Remember 1968

[seemslikeadream]

4. I will NEVER forget

Dr. Martin Luther King talks to Al Raby of Chicago's Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) as they lead the march down State Street. To King's right is Jack Spiegel of the United Shoeworkers, and to Raby's left is King assistant Bernard Lee.


Ballad Of Penny Evans

My Name Is Penny Evans And My Age Is Twenty-One
I'm A Widow Of The War That Was Fought In Vietnam
I Have Two Baby Daughters And I Do The Best I Can
They Say The War Is Over But I Think It's Just Begun

I Remember I Was Seventeen When First I Met My Bill
At His Father's Grand Piano We Played Old 'Heart And Soul'
I Only Knew The Left Hand Part, He Knew The Right So Well
He's The Only Boy I Slept With, And The Only One I Will

First We Had A Baby Girl, We Had Two Good Years
And Next The Warning Notice Came, We Parted Without Tears
Then It's Nine Months From Our Last Goodbye Our Second Child Appears
And It's Ten Months And A Telegram Confirming All Our Fears

So Once A Month I Get A Check From Some Army Bureaucrat
And Once A Month I Tear It Up And Mail The Damn Thing Back
Do They Think That Makes It All Right? Do They Think I'll Fall For That
They Can Keep Their Bloody Money, It Won't Bring My Billy Back

I Never Cared For Politics, Speeches I Don't Understand
Likewise I'll Take No Charity From Any Living Man
But Tonight There's Fifty Thousand Gone In That Unhappy Land
And Fifty Thousand 'Heart And Souls' Being Played With Just One Hand

My Name Is Penny Evans And My Age Is Twenty-One
I'm A Widow Of The War That Was Fought In Vietnam
I Have Two Baby Daughters - Thank God I Have No Son
They Say The War Is Over But I Think It's Just Begun

Steve Goodman (1971)




Veterans Day Observance : Chicago, Illinois
When: November 11, 2006 from 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Where: NW corner of Wacker & Wabash
What: Memorial Speeches & Rally
Details: Honor our fallen, support vets, rally to stop more deaths.

Sponsored by: VVAW

Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families For Peace, Code Pink

[CRK7376]

5. Well said.

Lots of reflection going on today across this great land. Foreign shores too.