In honor of those who have given their lives in service to our country (to me – ever thought about it that way?) – and with thanks to their families who so selflessly shared them with us:
Oh beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved — and mercy more than life!
America, America, may God thy gold refine
‘Til all success be nobleness and every gain divine.
Only a few men have died for our freedoms: Jesus Christ and the American soldier.