Today there were Memorial Day services all across the country. Here in Amarillo, we attended the one at a nearby cemetery. It was a perfect day - warm with a little breeze and clear skies. A flyover by 3 locally owned aircraft kicked off the program.
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| (Private, locally owned Beech T-34 Mentors.) |
The Caprock High School's JROTC Color Guard presented colors. (Caprock High School is the one I furnished the cover photo for on their 2010 yearbook.) These young people always do a fine job.
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| (Caprock High School JROTC Cadets.) |
One of the things they do each year is to place a wreath in honor of a local mother's son, who sacrificed all in Iraq. This is also symbolic of all families who have lost members in the service of their Country.
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| (Caprock JROTC Cadet escorts a mother who lost her son in Iraq | .) |
Those who serve take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As long as that is done, their lives will not have been lost in vain.
I salute all who serve, all who have served, and all who have given all.
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| (In Memoriam.) |
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