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11 November 2008

Veteran's Day & Sacrifice

This is a text message I just received from Tyler...

"Good morning dad. Its veteran's day. I just wanted to say thank you for all the sacrifices you made to keep this country safe and all the hardships you had to endure. I love you."

I love you more than you know Tyler... as I've told others, your gratitude isn't expected, but it certainly is very much appreciated and welcomed with open arms.

I love you with all that I am son.

To all veterans past, present and future... you will never be forgotten by anyone in my family. Here's to a peaceful future because of men and women who are willing to give everything.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

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