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To all who served


Bert Orange

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Too many young veterans are struggling with injuries, booze, or the dozen pills they come home taking everyday to help them sleep, stay awake etc.  It's difficult to transition from threat analysis to dinner and a movie.  We can all do more to help them adjust, I feel.  I'm making calls this AM and I wanted to share that with you assholes.

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Just went to the funeral of Mrs. Brat's cousin on Friday - the 85 year old gentleman was quite the Renaissance Man, graduated UT Engineering in 1956, practiced in that profession several years before going back to medical school (UT Galveston) and became a radiology doctor... practiced 25 years. He was well read in history, and having been raised in a family of building contractors, could build a house and craft fine furniture.

His freshman year at UT was interrupted by the outbreak of the Korean War, and he enlisted at age 18 in the US Army to become a medic. He earned a Bronze Star and a Silver Star for valor in combat.

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
 
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
        In Flanders fields.
 
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
        In Flanders fields.
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