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charset=utf-8"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">. . . <b><i>Memorial Day</i></b><img src="cid:F5EA4407-4BCE-4A46-9CB3-C14D35C0CEDB" alt="image1.jpeg" id="8896E14A-6CA7-4D0B-99DC-51E1F2A1244B" _mf_state="1" title="null" style="width: calc((100% + 20px) + 20px); margin-left: -20px;"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Memorial_Day.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Memorial_Day.jpg</a><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In memory of those Idahoans who gave their lives during the Iraq War . . .</span></div><div><font color="#000000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://youtu.be/oiLklRJm7Mc" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://youtu.be/oiLklRJm7Mc</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">————-</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Air Force Song</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Air_Force.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Air_Force.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Army Song</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Army.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Army.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Coast Guard Song</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Marine Corps Song</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Marine_Corps.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Marine_Corps.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Navy Song</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Navy.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Navy.mp3</a></div><div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Arlington"</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Arlington.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Arlington.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Bring 'em Home"</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Bring_Em_Home.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Bring_Em_Home.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Fifty Thousand Names"</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Fifty_Thousand_Names.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Fifty_Thousand_Names.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>“Nineteen”</b> by Paul Hardcastle</span></div><div><font color="#000000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://youtu.be/JcFFEjq5Ap8" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://youtu.be/JcFFEjq5Ap8</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Universal Soldier"</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Universal_Soldier.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/Universal_Soldier.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We Take Care of Our Own"</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/We_Take_Care_of_Our_Own.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/We_Take_Care_of_Our_Own.mp3</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We Were Soldiers Once, and Young" </b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/We_Were_Soldiers_Once_and_Young.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Memorial_Day/We_Were_Soldiers_Once_and_Young.mp3</a></div><div><div></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);">————-</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);"><b>"Bury Me With Soldiers”</b> by Rev. Charles Fink</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(Father Charles R. Fink, a 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><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've played a lot of roles in life;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've met a lot of men,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've done a lot of things I'd like to think</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wouldn't do again.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And though I'm young, I'm old enough</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To know someday I'll die.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And to think about what lies beyond,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Beside whom I would lie.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps it doesn't matter much;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still if I had my choice,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'd want a grave 'mongst soldiers</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When at last death quells my voice.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm sick of the hypocrisy</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of lectures of the wise.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'll take the man, with all the flaws,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who goes, though scared, and dies.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The troops I knew were commonplace</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They didn't want the war;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They fought because their fathers and</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their fathers had before.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They cursed and killed and wept...God knows</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They're easy to deride...</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But bury me with men like these;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They faced the guns and died.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's funny when you think of it,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The way we got along.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We'd come from different worlds</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To live in one where no one belongs,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I didn't even like them all;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm sure they'd all agree.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet I would give my life for them,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I know some did for me.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So bury me with soldiers, please,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though much maligned they be.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes, bury me with soldiers, for</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I miss their company.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We'll not soon see their likes again;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We've had our fill of war.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But bury me with men like them</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Till someone else does more.</span></div></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);">----------</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);">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="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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></div></body></html>