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Today, on this Memorial weekend, we pause to remember the many men and women who have lost their lives in service to their country. The War of Independence from which we emerged as a nation, the War of , the War with Mexico, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the First World War, the Second World War, Korea, Viet Nam, Kuwait, Iraq—all memories of bravery and loyalty and comradeship, along with the terribly cost of life.

This year, however, our memory takes on a particular sensitivity because we stand in the shadow of some men and women who lost their lives in a war just ended, a war that also took the lives of thousands of Iraqis, both soldiers and civilians.

So for a few moments, I invite you to embrace that memory that this Memorial weekend brings to the surface.

In a very moving article by Laura Blumenfeld and Julie Tate on the front page of the April 27 edition of the Washington Post, we meet some of these American men and women in a very real way.

“One soldier wrote to