by Helen Kelly

Created on: November 11, 2008

Thank you Veteran, for giving up your time, to serve for us...

Time that could've been spent laying in the grass watching clouds take form in Spring

Time so precious that it cannot be replaced, or re-assigned, or retrieved in any way...

Thank you Veteran, for giving up your family, to serve for us...

That Birthday that you were not there for, or that first step taken with a wobble

needing a steady hand that was far away.

Thank you Veteran, for giving up your innocence, to serve for us...

Watch a man die, and never be the same...living with the memory of who and what is lying in wait.

Only moments away from death.

Thank you Veteran, for giving up your life, to serve for us...

To never know the full life you were promised, to see your home again with those new eyes that no longer see.

You have given all...to serve for us.

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