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Doc wrote this.
Wanted you men to hear it.
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""We all ask ourselves
the question
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""why it is that some of us
are killed while others remain.
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""The only answer is our faith
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""in the wisdom
of the supreme being.
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""If he has chosen us to live,
there must be a reason.
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""I've tried to reckon out why.
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"" Perhaps he has saved us because
we are needed as witnesses
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""to remind each other
and our folks
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""and folks everywhere
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""that war is too full of horror
for human beings.
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"" Let us never forget that
some of what we went through
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""and our losses came
because our country was weak.
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"" Now we are part of the world,
and the world is part of us.
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""If any part suffers,
all suffer.
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""If any part loses freedom,
all will lose it.
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""We, the survivors
of the Second Marine Platoon,
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""Company B, First Battalion,
hereby swear
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""that if any of us
return home,
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""we will not forget what we saw
and what we suffered.
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""We must keep
our country strong,
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""courageous,
and wise in spirit
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""and be unafraid
in the knowledge
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""that we are on God's side.
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We must...""
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he never finished it.