<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Memory . . .</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLklRJm7Mc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLklRJm7Mc</a></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------</span></div></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size14 TimesRoman14" style="min-height: 20px; "><u><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></u></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size14 TimesRoman14" style="min-height: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u><b>JUST A COMMON SOLDIER</b></u><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>(A Soldier Died Today)</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>by A. Lawrence Vaincourt</b><br></font></div><div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size10 TimesRoman10" style="min-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>In his exploits with his buddies; they were heroes, every one.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>And tho' sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>All his Legion buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>But we'll hear his tales no longer for old Bill has passed away,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>And the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>He will not be mourned by many, just his children and his wife,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>For he lived an ordinary and quite uneventful life.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Held a job and raised a family, quietly going his own way,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; "><b>And the world won't note his passing, though a soldier died today</b></font><font class="size14 TimesRoman14" style="min-height: 20px; "><b>.</b><br></font></span></div><div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 Helvetica12" style="min-height: 18px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>While thousands note their passing and proclaim that they were great.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Papers tell their whole life stories, from the time that they were young,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>But the passing of a soldier goes unnoticed and unsung.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Is the greatest contribution to the welfare of our land</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>A guy who breaks his promises and cons his fellow man?</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Or the ordinary fellow who, in times of war and strife,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life?</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>A politician's stipend and the style in which he lives</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Are sometimes disproportionate to the service that he gives.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Is paid off with a medal and perhaps, a pension small.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>It's so easy to forget them for it was so long ago,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>That the old Bills of our Country went to battle, but we know</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>It was not the politicians, with their compromise and ploys,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Who won for us the freedom that our Country now enjoys.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Would you want a politician with his ever-shifting stand?</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Or would you prefer a soldier, who has sworn to defend</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>His home, his kin and Country and would fight until the end?</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>He was just a common soldier and his ranks are growing thin,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>But his presence should remind us we may need his like again.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b></b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Perhaps just a simple headline in a paper that would say,</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Our Country is in mourning, for a soldier died today.</b><br></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="min-height: 19px; "><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></font></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------</span></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">To Veterans' Day, Moscow.</span></div><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left; ">"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."</span></div><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="grand" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="grand" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; ">- Adlai Stevenson</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="grand" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">WETSU . . . John Wiggins and Dale Roderick (March 12, 1970)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></body></html>