There are many families who don’t have closure… Many have no graves to decorate, as their loved one had an anonymous foreign grave, or a ship or submarine lost at sea, or an aircraft that ‘disappeared’ for their final rest.
Know they truly are with the Angels.
I am blessed to have many relatives who, like I, served and came home save. Didn’t lose one.
I served with a guy who was gunned down on a street in Turkey by PKK.
It wasn’t combat, he wasn’t in uniform.
He was killed for being an American serving his country in a foreign land.
Ed- I hear ya.We lost a few, but I also remember those I served with who died in ‘training’ accidents…They still gave their all.
Dang, you should warn a person. Where’s the Kleenex?
Our church music team sang Arlington, the Trace Adkins song, at our Memorial Day service. Many of us were crying like babies.