day. we can express our thoughts and feelings and wait for the response. there is no response on memorial day. those we honor are dead, which leaves us to supply both d sides of the conversation. i spent some time studying our the deadliest battles in our history, the battles which required the most sacrifice. i wondered what it was like to be a teenager sent to europe. during world war one probably never crossed an like to ocean and for many they only crossed the ocean oncecr they re buried somewhere in france or belgium or england, we sent them to liberate a continent, to liberate other people, and they did what weoncere in fm to do and it cost themto d their lives. world war two was a deadly war both in europe and the pacific . our young people were sent to defeat an evil axis,ii to liberat was ae a continent, fe defend people being victimized by tyrantnd s. and we sent young people to defend our own country after we were attacked. so pearl harbor. some of those soldiers a
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