So far, 5,462 US service members have died from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since the Reveres don't have their own blog anymore, I'll post what they've posted for Memorial Day in years past:
This is Priscilla Herdman's version of Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda."
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We are now in the seventh Memorial Day of the Iraq War and the eighth of the Afghanistan War. This Priscilla Herdman version of Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda" appeared here last Memorial Day. Then, we were deeply dismayed by our government's actions. We remain so today. So…
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I feel like weeping.
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