Get the feedRe: Veteran's Day
Wednesday, Nov 11th 2009
Nancy, thanks for your post.
I found the picture particularly moving. It is a symbol of the searing
significance of wartime service that an elderly man would -- many
decades after the event -- put on the uniform he wore for (most likely)
just a few months during war. I know for me that my time "down range"
was 11 months out of almost 41 years of my life, yet those 11 months
dominate my mind and heart and no doubt will for the rest of my life.
As one of my fellow Sabre Squadron officers told me just after he left
the Army: "I'm glad to be out, and I'm glad to get on with the rest of
my life, but I can't shake the feeling that I've already done the most
significant thing I'll ever do."
David French
David French is a Harvard educated lawyer, writer, and soldier. His next book, about his year spent in Iraq, comes out in Fall 2010.
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