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by Dennis Wheeler
We are so privileged in live in a nation that enjoys FREEDOM! The freedom that we enjoy today as Americans was preserved because of the sacrifice of thousands and thousands of individuals who served in World War II. I'm so thankful that there has finally been a memorial erected and dedicated to the sacrificial service of the World War II generation. I watched the dedication of the World War II Memorial this past weekend on C-Span and my heart swelled with pride as the camera spanned the crowd and I saw the proud faces of men and women who are so deserving of my thanks!
I found this article by Jean Paul Lacroix...I hope you enjoy it...
"You see them every day, crossing the street, at the shopping center, or on the way to the church. Some you'll find in nursing homes. They are slower now. They are not getting any younger and there are fewer every day - America's World War II generation.Winston Churchill said of them, "The New World came to the rescue of the Old." These senior citizens, mostly retirees now, saved the world because it had to be done and no one else was available to do it. They participated in the world's most violent and deadly struggle. They did what had to be done.
During the war years, from Pearl Harbor through VE and VJ Day, they were young men and women. They were brave. They answered the call. They were the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marines. Some were home front workers - Rose the Riveter, Willie the Welder. They went where they were sent. They were bombed, shelled, shot out of the sky, torpedoed at sea, shot in the sands of North Africa. They endured the extreme cold of the North Atlantic and the steamy heat in the jungles of the South Pacific. Some were wounded. They lost new and old friends. They lost loved ones.
They were all heroes in some way and yet, they will deny it.
When they came home, they went back to being ordinary people. You know these men and women. They are moms, dads, relatives, neighbors and friends. Let's take a look and say thanks to these people now, while we still have a chance."
To those of you who have served our nation and to those who are serving our country now...we say THANK YOU and may GOD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY!
He serves as the Senior Pastor with southwest Virginia church... a loving church family in Abingdon.
He and his wife Sharon have been married for over 27 years and are the proud parents of two beautiful daughters, one son-in-law, and two precious grandchildren, the second arrived arrived on the scene in September 2004!!
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