<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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=utf-8"><div>. . . <b>VETERANS</b></div><div><img src="cid:BBF11110-4828-4430-8B9D-A17E0E5C6991" alt="image1.jpeg" id="BBF11110-4828-4430-8B9D-A17E0E5C6991"></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Veterans.jpg">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Veterans.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>The Army Song</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Army.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Army.mp3</a></div><div> </div><div><b>The Air Force Song</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Air_Force.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Air_Force.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>The Coast Guard Song</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><b>The Marine Corps Song</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Marine_Corps.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Marine_Corps.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><b>The Navy Song</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Navy.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Navy.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"Ballad of the Green Berets"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Ballad_of_the_Green_Berets.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Ballad_of_the_Green_Berets.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"Goodnight Saigon"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Goodnight_Saigon.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Goodnight_Saigon.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"Nineteen"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Nineteen.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Nineteen.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"When a Soldier Makes It Home"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/When_a_Soldier_Makes_it_Home.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/When_a_Soldier_Makes_it_Home.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"The White Cliffs of Dover"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/White_Cliffs_of_Dover.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/White_Cliffs_of_Dover.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>And, of course, cadences (Ah, the memories) . . .</div><div><br></div><div><b>"Around Her Head She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Around_Her_Head_She_Wore_a_Yellow_Ribbon.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Around_Her_Head_She_Wore_a_Yellow_Ribbon.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"Halo Halo Infantry"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Halo_Halo_Infantry.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Halo_Halo_Infantry.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>"Old King Cole"</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Old_King_Cole.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Veterans_Day/Old_King_Cole.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Bury Me With Soldiers" </b>(Author unknown)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've played a lot of roles in life;<br>I've met a lot of men,<br>I've done a lot of things I'd like to think<br>I wouldn't do again. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And though I'm young, I'm old enough<br>To know someday I'll die.<br>And to think about what lies beyond,<br>Beside whom I would lie. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps it doesn't matter much;<br>Still if I had my choice,<br>I'd want a grave 'mongst soldiers <br>When at last death quells my voice. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm sick of the hypocrisy<br>Of lectures of the wise.<br>I'll take the man, with all the flaws,<br>Who goes, though scared, and dies. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The troops I knew were commonplace<br>They didn't want the war;<br>They fought because their fathers and<br>Their fathers had before. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They cursed and killed and wept...<br>God knows<br>They're easy to deride...<br>But bury me with men like these;<br>They faced the guns and died. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's funny when you think of it,<br>The way we got along.<br>We'd come from different worlds<br>To live in one where no one belongs, </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I didn't even like them all;<br>I'm sure they'd all agree.<br>Yet I would give my life for them,<br>I know some did for me.. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So bury me with soldiers, please,<br>Though much maligned they be.<br>Yes, bury me with soldiers, for<br>I miss their company. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We'll not soon see their likes again;<br>We've had our fill of war.<br>But bury me with men like them<br>Till someone else does more.</span></p></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"Just a Common Soldier" </b>by Lawrence Vaincourt</font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In his exploits with his buddies; they were heroes, every one.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And tho' sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All his Legion buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But we'll hear his tales no longer for old Bill has passed away,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He will not be mourned by many, just his children and his wife,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For he lived an ordinary and quite uneventful life.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Held a job and raised a family, quietly going his own way,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px;">And the world won't note his passing, though a soldier died today</font><font class="size14 TimesRoman14" style="line-height: 20px; min-height: 20px;">.<br></font></span></div><div align="left"><font class="size12 Helvetica12" style="line-height: 18px; min-height: 18px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While thousands note their passing and proclaim that they were great.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Papers tell their whole life stories, from the time that they were young,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the passing of a soldier goes unnoticed and unsung.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is the greatest contribution to the welfare of our land<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A guy who breaks his promises and cons his fellow man?<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or the ordinary fellow who, in times of war and strife,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life?<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A politician's stipend and the style in which he lives<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Are sometimes disproportionate to the service that he gives.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is paid off with a medal and perhaps, a pension small.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's so easy to forget them for it was so long ago,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That the old Bills of our Country went to battle, but we know<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was not the politicians, with their compromise and ploys,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who won for us the freedom that our Country now enjoys.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Would you want a politician with his ever-shifting stand?<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or would you prefer a soldier, who has sworn to defend<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His home, his kin and Country and would fight until the end?<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was just a common soldier and his ranks are growing thin,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But his presence should remind us we may need his like again.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps just a simple headline in a paper that would say,<br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font class="size12 TimesRoman12" style="line-height: 19px; min-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our Country is in mourning, for a soldier died today.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>On August 9, 1969 . . . one of the Army's newest privates turned 18 at Fort Ord, California.</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Army/Fort_Ord_080969.jpg">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Army/Fort_Ord_080969.jpg</a></div><div><br><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><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Old sergeants never die. They just quit playing with their privates.</span></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>