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Our Views: Our duty to honor
VA hospital scandal a national disgrace casting a shadow over Memorial Day
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“All we have of freedom, all we use or know. This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.”— Rudyard Kipling “They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.”— Daniel Webster “Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”—Wallace Bruce We show it with the placement of flags on soldiers’ graves, a symbol of what they fought for, keeping the banner of freedom close to them forever. We show it by standing by the road during the parade, waving and saluting the veterans who ride through the streets, a celebration some never received when they first returned home.