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Wednesday May 18 -- Lunch and time to view the World War II Memorial (Click to show/hide comments)
Time at the WW II Memorial. While the monument is impressive, what moved me to tears was more human memorial, than stone.
A couple, tourists from France, walking amid the Monument stopped to talk to several veterms, my father being one of them.
The wife shook his hand and explained that she had been a small child during the war, and thanked him for risking his life to
help save her and her country. I completely lost it and could do little more than blubber. I realized that I owed a greater
debt of honor and respect than she, since my hometown had never been invaded, due in part to the same men she was thanking,
Americans, and Brits, Australians and Frenchmen, Belgians and Slovaks, Slovenes and Serbs and Bosnians. Our success in the
war was not an American success: it was the joint effort of men working together to fight the advance of evil. It reminded me
that, while I am proud of my country, I should never forget that we are still subject to the judgement of God and the chastisement
of those fighting for the good, should we stray.
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