<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div>. . . <b>Memorial Day</b></div><div><img src="cid:FE2EF8D2-5702-49F1-8260-3176191C2AD9" alt="image1.jpeg" id="FE2EF8D2-5702-49F1-8260-3176191C2AD9"></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Memorial_Day.jpg">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Memorial_Day.jpg</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><b>"Bring 'em Home"</b> by Bruce Springsteen</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Bring_Em_Home.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Bring_Em_Home.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><b>"Universal Soldier"</b> by Donovan</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Universal_Soldier.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Universal_Soldier.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"We Take Care of Our Own"</b> by Bruce Springsteen</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/We_Take_Care_of_Our_Own.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/We_Take_Care_of_Our_Own.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"Arlington"</b> by Trace Adkins</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Arlington.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Arlington.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"Fifty Thousand Names Carved in the Wall"</b> by George Jones</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Fifty_Thousand_Names.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Fifty_Thousand_Names.mp3</a></span><br><br>And, of course . . . </div><div><br></div><div><b><i><u>Air Force</u></i></b></div><div><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Air_Force.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Air_Force.mp3</a></div><div> </div><div><b><i><u>Army</u></i></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Army.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Army.mp3</a></span></div><div> </div><div><b><i><u>Coast Guard</u></i></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><b><i><u>Marines</u></i></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Marines.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Marines.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><b><i><u>Navy</u></i></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Navy.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Memorial_Day/Navy.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>"Bury Me With Soldiers"</b></div><div>By <i>Rev. Charles R. Fink</i> (<span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Roman Catholic Priest of St. Philip Neri’s Church in Northport NY., served in Vietnam from March 1969 to March 1970 as a Sergeant in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade)</span></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I’ve played a lot of roles in life;</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’ve met a lot of men.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’ve done some things I’d like to think</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wouldn’t do again</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And though I’m young, I’m old enough</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To know someday I’ll die.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And think about what lies beyond, And</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Besides whom I would lie.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps it doesn’t matter much;</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still if I had my choice,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’d want a grave amongst soldiers when</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At last death quells my voice</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’m sick of the hypocrisy</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of lectures by the wise</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’ll take the man with all his flaws</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who goes, though scared, and dies.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The troops I know were commonplace;</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They didn’t want the war</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They fought because their fathers and</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their father’s fathers had before.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They cursed and killed and wept –</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God knows they’re easy to deride –</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But bury me with men like these;</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They faced the guns and died.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s funny when you think of it,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The way we got along.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We’d come from different worlds</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To live in one, where no one belongs</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I didn’t even like them all and,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’m sure they’d all agree.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet, I would give my life for them,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope. Some would for me.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So bury me with soldiers, please</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though much maligned they be</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes, bury me with soldiers, for</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I miss their company.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We will not soon see their like again</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We’ve had our fill of war.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But, bury me with men like them</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Till someone else does more!"</span></div></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Videos . . .</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"<b>America the Beautiful</b>" sung by John Dickinson (former member of the Moscow City Council)</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://youtu.be/b8m0-Q22lkY">http://youtu.be/b8m0-Q22lkY</a></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The National Anthem sung by the </span>Barbershop Quartet of the Palouse Harmony Chorus</div><div style="text-align: start;"><a href="http://youtu.be/RBEHwtjKIAo" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://youtu.be/RBEHwtjKIAo</font></a></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SFC, U.S. Army (Retired)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>