Thanks to Trooper Ed Van Vickle for supplying the following article.

Memorial Day is coming up again this year. Once Again the North Texas Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Association will be at Restland Cemetery in Dallas Texas off of Greenville Ave. For the Memorial Day Services. I would like to invite one and all to come and join us. If you're not close enough take the time, find out where a ceremony will be held. Remember those who have fallen for our freedoms.

I have shared this with most of you but I always like to send it out around this time of year. Yes I hope you read it and I hope it spurs you to get out and remember our service men and women.

For those of you who have not got this before, first yes I wrote it. :) Feel Free to pass on too friends and Family. I would like to ask that you do give me the credit for it though. Thank you to those veterans that are on this email list of mine.

I have sat here for so long alone. The caretakers have all come and gone I saw him approach and wondered why he had come. Then I noticed the Flag had fallen and was on the ground. I was too weary and too old to be able to pick it up and set it right. He looked at me as he picked up the Flag and set it right. He looked at me with a smile as he read the words above my door. I noticed immediately that he was a Paratrooper but not from my War. He snapped to Attention as he stared at the Flag on my door a crisp salute like the ones I had given before. He was only able to stay a moment, as I am sure there were others he came to see. He bent down and cleaned up debris from around the door so that the writing could be seen. He said a silent and solemn prayer. Then he gave one last crisp salute and headed on his way. I was very glad to have had a visitor today. Not many come to see me, not many appear to care about me anymore. But one lone visitor gave me the hope that our country still remembers the price we paid for the freedoms they endure. Later on I heard a great thunder and then soon yet another and then 19 more, I realized finally that this must be Memorial Day. I was remembered and cared for on this lonely day by a soldier who had not forgotten. Though I knew him not, nor he knew me he paid his respects on this day.