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Salute to Veterians Day

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This is a picture of the flag that we put up for LSU Salutes, veterians day program. This is the flag pole on the parade ground with Memorial Tower in the background on LSU campus(Louisiana State University). Memorial Tower is a WWI memorial and the wall around the flag poll is a memorial to all wars after WWI of LSU alumni including Operation Iraqi Freedom and there was one alumni that died in 9/11. Here is a poem that I really like, I don't know who it is written by but it is very fitting for being veterians day.

NO, FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

I watched a flag pass by one day
It fluttered in the breeze
A young airman saluted it
And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
with hair cut square and eyes
alert, he'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
had fallen through the years
How many died on foreign soils
How many mothers tears.

How many pilot's planes shot down
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers
graves, no freedom is not for free.

I heard the sound of taps one night
When everything was still
I listen to the buglar play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wonder just how many times
That taps had meant Amen
When a flag had covered a coffin
of a brother or a friend.

I thought about the children
of the mothers and the wives
of fathers, sons, and husbands
with interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
at the bottom of the sea
of unmarked stones at Arlington
No, freedom is not for free
Image size
1440x2160px 414.44 KB
Make
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model
KODAK DX4330 DIGITAL CAMERA
Shutter Speed
1/512 second
Aperture
F/6.7
Focal Length
16 mm
Date Taken
Nov 8, 2005, 1:28:49 PM
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