Saturday, the Saturday after 11 Sept for the past 5 years, people have gathered at the Ohio Fallen Heroes Memorial (www.ohiofallenheroes.org) in Sunbury, Ohio. They gather to remember, to show respect, to cry and to show support. Family, friends, neighbors, members of the military (retired, active, reserve) the Leathernecks MC, and strangers were in attendance. If you were not moved in some way by the words that were spoken or by the sight of over 200 crosses, then you have nothing but ice around your heart. I went to remember, to show support and to honor those members of the 3rd BN, 25th Marines that died while serving with my husband in Iraq in 2005. Many of them I knew, some I had just met during leave in Vegas and others I knew only through the stories that I heard. But all were too young to have died this way. We need to remember, to carry on their fight, their beliefs, their honor, to not do this will only make their deaths and lives worthless. "Their stay was short in our arms, forever in our hearts."
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