Onime No Kyo
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May 9th tithe. I know that this date means different things for different people, for some, perhaps nothing at all. For some it's about who won. For others its about how, and with what weapons and tactics. For some, its about politics and ideology. I wanted to tell you what it means for me. For me, this day is about all the young men and women who never came back. As I look at the photographs of their happy, smiling faces, pictured before the war or during some moment of respite in the action, and I ask myself, who were they? When people speak of the Greatest Generation, I strongly disagree. In those photographs, I do not see people who are any different than myself. I see young people, in the prime of their lives, who wanted to live, love, raise families. Instead, they went to war, and they did not come back. For me this day is about them. With all my heart I want to thank them for the sacrifice they made so that I, and my often thankless generation, could enjoy the things that we have.
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