Castle Shima

Lt. Col Strobl: If I'm not over there, what am I? Those guys, guys like Chance. They're Marines.
Charlie Fitts: And you think you're not? Want to be with your family every night? You think you have to justify that? You'd better stop right there, sir. You've brought Chance home. You're his witness now. Without a witness, they just disappear.
-- from Taking Chance

Today is the day we Americans remember those soldiers that died for us. It doesnt matter whether or not you believe in war or not. Its there and its something that must lived through.

Its the soldier that pays the price with their life. We should never forget that.



Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Home they brought her warrior dead:
She nor swooned, nor uttered cry:
All her maidens, watching, said,
‘She must weep or she will die.’

Then they praised him, soft and low,
Called him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
Yet she neither spoke nor moved.

Stole a maiden from her place,
Lightly to the warrior stepped,
Took the face-cloth from the face;
Yet she neither moved nor wept.

Rose a nurse of ninety years,
Set his child upon her knee—
Like summer tempest came her tears—
‘Sweet my child, I live for thee.’