Scarp: Do not forget how they lived

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• Leon Ceniceros posted at 10:42 pm on Sun, May 27, 2012.

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  What is sad is the today, while we honor our Fallen Heroes many Americans do not place that same honor on Service to our Country.

  Just look at the current demographics of the make up of our Military Men and Women. The vast, vast majority are White and Protestant. Blacks and Hispanics make up about 25%. Catholics are the second largest Religious Group. Military members of the Jewish and Mormon religions are less than 1%....less than 1%.

  When did Service to the United States of America become something to be looked down on, something to be avoided at all costs ???
  When did Religious Beliefs supercede Patriotism ???

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• Cerulean posted at 7:40 am on Tue, May 29, 2012.

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  In Flanders Fields, written in 1915 by John McCrae:

  In Flanders fields the poppies blow
  Between the crosses, row on row,
  That mark our place; and in the sky
  The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
  Scarce heard amid the guns below.

  We are the dead. Short days ago
  We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
  Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
  In Flanders fields.

  Take up our quarrel with the foe:
  To you from failing hands we throw
  The torch; be yours to hold it high.
  If ye break faith with us who die
  We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
  In Flanders fields.
  

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