Solemn Veterans' Day

To honor those yet alive, while the other remember the dead. Some of these soldiers were those who joined the war because they had an belief that they should earn the freedom that their forefathers had given them. For that, they have earned more than we could hope to reimburse. What little we can give, however, should be a life of august comfort, not of abject poverty by slowly eroding benefits. The words that I have spoken will be joined with silence that cannot be seen through this intangible symbols on the page to honor those soldiers of the World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and all the other military engagements in between, in Kosovo, Somalia, and Yemen.