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Paid in Full

Memorial Day Reflections on our Wars and Conflicts

5/27/2012

Paid in Full

We didn’t die for you; we died for an oath we took.
We didn’t die for Republicans or Democrats or any political persuasion.
We didn’t die for a creed or an economy or tax rates.
We didn’t die for job creators or their employees.

We died for a document called the constitution about rights and privileges.
We died for the women and men who served along side us in these places far from home.
We died young by the votes cast in congress by our elders.
We died for liberty itself and the society that grows from that fertile soil.

Honor us this one way, give our sacrifice meaning, define that path of government which is wide enough for all Americans to walk abreast on from left to right. Try as you may not to walk single file or narrowly.

And please, make sure our bill is marked paid in full.

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