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SHE’S BEEN MISTREATED NOT DEFEATED
By Don Kenton Henry The Lady’s served her children well She’s known joy and she’s known hell She’s lost more than just one son and daughter too She’s been through tragedy and triumph Ever watchful and reliant And she does it all for me and you A shining beacon across the seas leading those […]
HISTORY BY THE NUMBERS
“I wish I’d known Uncle Ira. I wish he’d gone to Yankees games with us. It’s not fair. He shouldn’t have died, Grandpa. War is stupid!”
“How many veterans do you think are buried here at Arlington, David?”
“I don’t know, grandpa,” he answered as he pulled the map from the back pocket of his trousers.
“Over two hundred fifty thousand.”
“That’s so many!”
“How many of our kind were murdered in concentration camps before your uncle helped stop Hitler?”
“I don’t know, Grandpa. How many?”
“6 million.”
