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CARRY ME
Once upon a time there was a veteran who
never joined or participated in any veteran's organizations or activities.
All his life he took the benefits and entitlements
won for him by the veteran's service organizations. He had a ten point
preference, a GI loan, went to school on the GI Bill and Veteran's Employment
even got him a job. These are a few of the many benefits he enjoyed, but
he still refused to join or participate.
On the day of his death he asked his wife,
"Please do one last thing for me. I would like to be buried in a National
Cemetery, have a military marker and I would like to have a veteran's organization
provide an Honor Guard and act as pallbearers."
But you never belonged or participated
in any veteran's organizations, his wife exclaimed. Why do you want them
for pall bearers? Dear he replied, "They carried me this far, they might
as well carry me the rest of the way."
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