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A tribute to Marine veterans who served with the 1st Battalion,

7th Marines, 1st Marine Division — Vietnam, 1965 – 1970.

 

A special salute to my

brothers in Alpha Company.

A tribute to Marine veterans, who served with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division — Vietnam, 1965 – 1970.

~ A special salute to my 
brothers in Alpha Company.

Honoring the fallen: and the nobility of the human spirit transcending the infamy of war.



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.


Sitting with Warrior

  1. Carl Hitchens 2010