Welcome To The Aldergrove Legion Branch 265

Aldergrove Legion #265

Street Address: 26607 Fraser Highway, Aldergrove BC

Mailing Address: Box 145, Aldergrove BC V4W 2T7

Office Phone: 604-856-8814

Lounge Phone: 604-856-5423

OFFICE MANAGER.....emailIf you would just like the address it's rcl265@hotmail.com

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THE SPIRIT OF THE WALL The Viet Nam Veteran's Memorial I STOOD BEFORE THE WALL TODAY ... COMPLETELY UNPREPARED FOR THE BITTERSWEET EMOTIONS THAT RAINED DOWN UPON MY HEAD. MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS HAVE COME ... AND GONE SINCE THAT AWFUL WAR WAS FOUGHT ... I THOUGHT THE PAIN HAD 'GONE AWAY' I WAS SURPRISED THAT IT HAD NOT. WE SENT OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST LIGHTS TO A JUNGLE FAR AWAY ... WHERE FOR A CAUSE SO GOOD AND NOBLE, WE COMMITTED TO THE FRAY. I CANNOT BEGIN TO TELL YOU OF ALL THE PAIN WITHIN THE WALL ... OR HOW IT WAS 'WE, THE PEOPLE' WHO SCORNED OUR SOLDIERS, ONE AND ALL. AS I LOOKED AT ALL THE MANY NAMES ENGRAVED UPON THIS WALL I REACHED OUT WITH A TREMBLING HAND, AS IF ... TO CATCH THEM ... AS THEY'D FALL. MY HEART, I THOUGHT, IS BREAKING FOR THE LIVES THEY'D NEVER KNOW ... AND, AS I HEARD THAT LONELY BUGLE PLAY. I THOUGHT OF THOSE WHO'D LOVED THEM SO ... AND THEN ... I SAW A MAN - NO LONGER YOUNG KNEELING AT THE WALL... HIS FINGERS TOUCHED BUT JUST ONE NAME ... I HEARD HIM WHISPER ...'THROUGH IT ALL' OUR SOLDIERS NEVER FALTERED ... NEVER SAID THEY WOULDN'T GO ... AND , AGAIN, THIS DAY, THEY FIGHT FOR ME IN SPITE OF 'EVERYTHING THEY KNOW'. I STOOD BEFORE THE WALL TODAY ... AND REMEMBERED. from: In The Spirit of Things

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"'THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD; AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."

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