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Soldier's son thanks man on Wall for life
The Greenville News ^
| October 20, 2003
| Jason Zacher
Posted on 10/20/2003 1:22:12 PM PDT by 4everontheRight
Edited on 05/07/2004 9:06:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Robert Mason rubbed a piece of paper with a quarter, slowly revealing the name of Lawrence C. Clausen from the black wall Sunday at Woodland Memorial Park. He wiped away tears from behind dark sunglasses. The way Mason, 33, sees it, he owes his life to Clausen, a man he never knew.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: memorialwall
Bless our soldiers
To: 4everontheRight
He's right....*everytime you see it, it takes your breath away*...sigh!
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:26:38 PM PDT
by
mystery-ak
(Mike wishes to express his gratitude for all the birthday wishes..he was very touched..thanks)
To: 4everontheRight
I never understood why a wall of black granite was so emotional to people until I went there myself.
To: Fierce Allegiance
Same here. I bawled like a baby when I made a rubbing of my cousin's name.
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:31:37 PM PDT
by
annyokie
(One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.)
To: Fierce Allegiance
Agreed. I never really got it until I went there. It is powerful.
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:32:02 PM PDT
by
Ramius
To: Fierce Allegiance
Amen. I saw the replica and was depressed for days afterward.
To: 4everontheRight
Thanks for posting this.
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:41:53 PM PDT
by
BillF
(Support Our Troops http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/997137/posts)
To: ALOHA RONNIE; Jimmy Valentine's brother
God bless our troops, past, present, and future.
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:43:59 PM PDT
by
BillF
(Support Our Troops http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/997137/posts)
To: Sunshine Sister
Though we might find some happiness yet in that somehow it seems more and more apparent that they didn't die for nothing.
Onward the Good!
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posted on
10/20/2003 1:57:58 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: 4everontheRight
I was about 8 when the war ended. Didn't know anyone there, anyone killed, anyone injured. I took my kids to the traveling wall last year. I was choking me up to explain to them that these were men who gave all. Gave all for a cause that was riduculed and protested here by a bunch of losers who wouldn't give any.
This past summer, the kids were looking at a Vietnam era fighter at a memorial park. Since I grew up near a base, I told them that I remembered seeing these planes fly overhead. A guy standing near me said he saw a whole bunch of them flying over where he was too. As I thanked him for his service and sacrifice, he began to tear up so we left him with his thoughts. He chased us down and thanked me for honoring him in the small way that I did. Still chokes me up when I think that men like him gave it all up for nothing but derision here in the US. Thank God for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush for making us proud to be Americans again.
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posted on
10/20/2003 2:01:06 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Forget United Fraud (way) donate directly to your local Boy Scout Council.)
To: BillF
...May GOD protect our Protectors....
...always.
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posted on
10/20/2003 4:21:02 PM PDT
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.)
To: 4everontheRight
"He died for me, that's the way I see it,"John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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posted on
10/21/2003 5:24:17 AM PDT
by
Between the Lines
("What Goes Into the Mind Comes Out in a Life")
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