awakening-rEVOLution

Every now and then, in the middle of the constant barrage of crap that's just pissing us all off these days, we come across a story, a feat, an event that just makes us stop in our tracks. This was one for me. Cody Green was a 12-year kid in Indiana who was diagnosed with leukemia at 22 months old. He loved the Marines, and his parents said he drew strength and courage from the Marine Corps. As he bravely fought the battle into remission three times. Although he was cancer-free at the time, the chemotherapy had lowered his immune system and he developed a fungus infection that attacked his brain. Two weeks ago, as he struggled to fend off t

I walk among the crosses Looking a the names, but not seeing them I walk down the rows, and slowly those around me disapear I see those I've known, and those I've lost I watch the battles play out I watch the shipmates I've come to know I see young men and women Standing solomly behind their names, A crisp salute from each, and a tear strolling down their face I see their families pass by And not even acknowledge them The sorrow grows deeper the longer I walk I wonder who these people could have been And what they would say If they could see the country they had died for They arent remembered by most Just another name on the