One Backward Glance......
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© E. F. Hart and VVMF 1984
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If you are Able... Save for them a place inside of you, and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.
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A single Rose signifies True and Constant Devotion. This Devotion can never end, as long as there are Roses to give one another, and loved ones to give them to. This Rose here is laid at this memorial to call Remembrance to the lives lost, but never forgotten; it signifies the Love and Devotion and National Gratitude for the Sacrifices which all the names on this Wall have made so that we Americans can live, sleep, work and play within Free and Safe Borders.
These names call out to all of us, "Remember us!" And so we must, and so we will.
~ Jake ~
La Crescenta, California
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"During my early morning guard I contemplated immortality and death.
Out there was the forest - the tiger, the python, and the Gook.
All of them deadly, and all of them hunters in their own right.
What is life's purpose?
To hunt one another, to survive?
To live and die, that is all.
No one is immortal, and death is inevitable.
Thus one must live to the fullest, and when one's time comes to die,
He should do so with purpose and courage. Live hard and die hard.
Leave more than faint footprints in the sand.
Leave dents in mountains and the minds of men, your race, and your kind.
This is how I choose to live, and this is how I choose to die.
So it will be.
Sgt. Stephen A. Golsh
La Crescenta, California
KIA March 21, 1970
Ashau Valley, South Vietnam
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