A tribute to Marine veterans who served with the 1st Battalion,
7th Marines, 1st Marine Division — Vietnam, 1965 – 1970.
video (4.5 MB.)
A special salute to my
brothers in Alpha Company.
Honoring the fallen and the nobility of the human spirit in transcending the infamy of war.
Flanagan had taken a round for us.
A hole at his heart,
where fortune had cut him down,
and fixed his life forever
in our minds and feelings.
He had walked that narrow crossing
between life and death
and cheated fate
by living on in our memories.
Forty years after the fact,
in the shadows of who we were,
we honor him
and all those who fell,
who lived so well
that we who lived
live as better men.
Carl Hitchens 2010