Fort Collins, Co
While we were out and about Sunday, we stopped at the park across from the Lake in Loveland, to rest, have a sandwich and finally see up close the war memorial we've ridden past hundreds of times without stopping.
What follows is the inscription carved into part of the memorial...
- If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. -- Major Michael Davis O'Donnell, Dak To, Vietnam, January, 1970.
Excellent post. I can't go to any war memorial, especially the Vietnam War Memorial without crying like a baby. As a result, sadly, I tend to avoid them. It stirs something deep inside me that I can't get a grip on. Keep up the great posts and ride safe!!
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