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Brig. Gen. Clark W. LeMasters, Jr., the commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) gives a speech during the Nov. 11, 2013, Sun City Veterans Day celebration, that took place at the Georgetown-Williamson County Veterans Memorial Plaza. He accepted the invitation from retired Army Lt. Gen. Charles P. Graham not only because he loves and respects veterans, but also for a personal reason. Graham pinned LeMasters Eagle Scout in 1977, when LeMasters' father and Graham were both stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. During his speech, LeMasters talked about the origins of Veterans Day, Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. He explained that the "poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance day in several countries, due to the poem "In Flanders Fields," written by Lt. Col. John McCrae, an soldier, physician and poet, from Ontario, Canada ... poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders, Belgium in Worlds War I. Their brilliant red color is an appropriate symbol for the blood spilled in the war." LeMasters thanked all veterans and assured them that today's military is continuing the work they have begun. "Just like in John McCrae's poem states," he said," we have been and will 'take up your quarrel with the foe' and we will take the torch you are handing us, holding it higher and carry it with pride. We continue to protect our nation no matter what the threat, or where we go." LeMasters also thanked the Central Texas community for embracing veterans and encouraged them to make the most of the values and talents veterans bring to the community or to the workplace. In conclusion LeMasers expressed his views of how individuals become soldiers for life: "The Army is the strength of the nation and soldiers are the strength of the Army. To each and ever one of our veterans, who answered the nation's call, the Army knows: once a soldier, a soldier for life."
| Date Taken: | 11.11.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 11.11.2013 21:13 |
| Photo ID: | 1050462 |
| VIRIN: | 131111-A-JI408-006 |
| Resolution: | 4288x2848 |
| Size: | 2.01 MB |
| Location: | KILLEEN, TX, US |
| Web Views: | 30 |
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