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    Echo Taps              Danny Boy            Amazing Grace*    

 

   * "Amazing Grace - Fallen Heroes"  At 2:07 into this video is a photo of the funeral of Andrew J. Bacevich. 
Prominent gentleman with white hair/red tie in upper right of photo is his father, also named Andrew (webmaster's USMA classmate).
Here is an article from the father:  "I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty."

 "...to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan...." 
Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address

"Flowers At The Wall" - copyright courtesy Joe Palmer

US Dept of Defense reports on battle and in-service deaths*
Revolutionary War (1775-1783):  4,435
War of 1812 (1812-1815):  2,260
Indian Wars (approx 1817-1898):  1,000
Mexican War (1846-1848):  13,283
Civil War (1861-1865):  498,332
Spanish-American War (1898-1902):  2,446
World War I (1917-1918):  116,516
World War II (1940-1945):  405,399
Korean War (1950-1953):  36,574
Vietnam War (1964-1975):  58,209
Gulf War (1990-1991):  382
Iraq War (2003-Present):  4,000+ 

* consensus of various, sometimes conflicting reports


 

Til the Last Shot's Fired

Here is another version of Amazing Grace - Remembrance. 


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