She brought honor to her family, tribe, and country.
Today is memorial day. For my readers in the United States, it is a day to remember that our freedom comes with a very dear price. Specialist Piestewa and the other close to 3,430 service men and women in Iraq gave the last full measure of devotion to a country that they loved. Nearly 400 patriots have died in the Afghan war.
We must not forget them, or the 58,209 dead and 2,000 missing in the Vietnam war. Or the 36,940 dead in the Korean war. Or the 407,300 dead in the second world war. Or the 117,000 dead in the first world war. Or the 2,400 dead in the Spanish-American war. Or the 215,000 dead in the war between the states. Or the 13,000 dead in the Mexican war. Or the 2,260 dead in war of 1812. Or the 4,435 dead in the Revolutionary war.
If you are an American, remember our fallen.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monday, May 28, 2007
SPC Lori Ann Piestewa
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3 comments:
holy crack smoker. here are some ammended figures for your death tolls: revolutionary war= 25,000 not 4,435. and the civil war, which is what first caught my attention is waaaaaaaay off. civil war = 625,000 not 215,000. not to nit pick. but i had to.
"Information Please" sucks.
i understand man. took me a second to find the figures, but i knew that the civil war had more than the other wars combined. that's what attracted my attention to begin with.
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