| Gold Star Mothers & Family Chapter 9 |
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| "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!! For he today, that sheds his blood with me, shall always be my brother”. |
The Brotherhood
" I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or
look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they long to
be with the men who once acted at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who
suffered and stripped of their humanity. I did not pick these men. They were delivered
by fate and the military. But I know them in a way I know no other men. I have never
given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something more precious than my
life. They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me. It was part of the
bargain we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another. As long as I
have memory, I will think of them all, every day. I am sure that when I leave this world,
my last thought will be of my family and my comrades.. Such good men."
Author unknown
" I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or
look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they long to
be with the men who once acted at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who
suffered and stripped of their humanity. I did not pick these men. They were delivered
by fate and the military. But I know them in a way I know no other men. I have never
given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something more precious than my
life. They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me. It was part of the
bargain we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another. As long as I
have memory, I will think of them all, every day. I am sure that when I leave this world,
my last thought will be of my family and my comrades.. Such good men."
Author unknown
