The following article came to me recently and I contended that I should pass it on.  It has been slightly edited and a conclusion added.

I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze.
 
A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease.
 
I looked at him in uniform, So young, so tall, so proud.
 

With hair cut square and eyes alert, He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him, Had fallen through the years.

How many died on foreign soil?  How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?  How many died at sea?

How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?  No, freedom isn't free.
 

I heard the sound of Taps one night,  When everything was still.

I listened to the bugler play,  And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times, That Taps had meant "Amen,"

When a flag had draped a coffin.  Of a brother or a friend.
 

I thought of all the children, Of the mothers and the wives.
 

Of fathers, sons and husbands, With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard, At the bottom of the sea

Of unmarked graves in Arlington.  No, freedom isn't free.

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            Enjoy Your Freedom & God Bless Our Troops & say a prayer for our servicemen.  This can be very powerful.  Please PASS THIS ON.   Of all the gifts you could give a U.S. Soldier, Prayer is the very best one.

Plainly, don’t get short changed.  Let’s be ready to meet our Maker.  The Bible (in Acts) teaches that to avoid hell and gain heaven - one must:

1) Believe In Jesus As Savior (16:31)  2) Repent Of Sins  (17:30)  

3) Confess Christ Audibly (8:37)  4) Be Baptized In  Water (2:38)  

5) Live A  Christian Life (14:22)   6) Be Active In the Church (2:47)

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