View a eulogy for Garrison Charles Avery, USMA '04, who passed away on February 1, 2006.
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Garrison Charles Avery
West Point, 2004
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Tim on June 2, 2009:
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This past Memorial day we were all thinking of you. God Bless. President Obama on Memorial day: "That is what Memorial Day is all about. It is about doing all we can to repay the debt we owe to those men and women who have answered our nation's call by fighting under its flag. It is about recognizing that we, as a people, did not get here by accident or good fortune alone. It's about remembering the hard winter of 1776, when our fragile American experiment seemed doomed to fail; and the early battles of 1861 when a union victory was anything but certain; and the summer of 1944, when the fate of a world rested on a perilous landing unlike any ever attempted. It's about remembering each and every one of those moments when our survival as a nation came down not simply to the wisdom of our leaders or the resilience of our people, but to the courage and valor of our fighting men and women. For it is only by remembering these moments that we can truly appreciate a simple lesson of American life - that what makes all we are and all we aspire to be possible are the sacrifices of an unbroken line of Americans that stretches back to our nation's founding. That is the meaning of this holiday. That is a truth at the heart of our history." |
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