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Ken,
I feel your sadness and pride. I will say prayers for your family.
I feel your sadness and pride. I will say prayers for your family.
Memorial Day-Lost my cousin in Iraq
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Ken,
My prayers go out to your family. I can not find the words to express my sorrow.
My prayers go out to your family. I can not find the words to express my sorrow.
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Ken -
My most sincere condolences to you and your family. Blake has made the ultimate sacrifice and we should be forever grateful to him.
May God Bless and watch over his family as they greive this terrible loss.
We will keep them in our prayers.
Scott
?A Soldier's Prayer?
(Larry Walker, Tommy Oliver)
Narrated by Dean Jones
One hot desert morning at dawn's early light
While trudging through the sand
I found a piece of paper
Clutched in a young man's hand
And upon that paper the words he wrote
Were not filled with despair
Just thoughts from the heart of a brave young lad
He called it, ?A Soldier's Prayer?
I took the paper from his hand and read it aloud...
Will there be a place in heaven
For a person such as me
Who, through youth and the love for life
Isn't all you'd have me be?
I've been a man but a short time now
And I'll ask you this, if I might
Isn't fighting for freedom's cause
A fight that's always right?
The men I've killed, some things I've done
Are not things I've wanted to do
But a job I believe had to be done
By we who believe in you
I had those thoughts upon my mind
When I heard that deadly sound
Then, all around me, one by one
My friends fell to the ground
Somehow I knew before it hit
Fear ran up my spine
I felt the blast tearing my side
I knew this one was mine
There'll be much grief for loved ones at home
when they learn that I am dead
Please ease their pain and let them know
These things that I have said
Time's run out, I can feel death's sting
Oh, God, please hear my plea
Let there be a place in heaven
For a person such as me
Lord, this is the chaplain, I'm here with this lad
Our country's given the finest it had
We who are older and have studied your word
Know this boy's prayer is more than just heard
It is answered with your love
And the promise that there'll be
A special place in heaven
For a person such as he.
My most sincere condolences to you and your family. Blake has made the ultimate sacrifice and we should be forever grateful to him.
May God Bless and watch over his family as they greive this terrible loss.
We will keep them in our prayers.
Scott
?A Soldier's Prayer?
(Larry Walker, Tommy Oliver)
Narrated by Dean Jones
One hot desert morning at dawn's early light
While trudging through the sand
I found a piece of paper
Clutched in a young man's hand
And upon that paper the words he wrote
Were not filled with despair
Just thoughts from the heart of a brave young lad
He called it, ?A Soldier's Prayer?
I took the paper from his hand and read it aloud...
Will there be a place in heaven
For a person such as me
Who, through youth and the love for life
Isn't all you'd have me be?
I've been a man but a short time now
And I'll ask you this, if I might
Isn't fighting for freedom's cause
A fight that's always right?
The men I've killed, some things I've done
Are not things I've wanted to do
But a job I believe had to be done
By we who believe in you
I had those thoughts upon my mind
When I heard that deadly sound
Then, all around me, one by one
My friends fell to the ground
Somehow I knew before it hit
Fear ran up my spine
I felt the blast tearing my side
I knew this one was mine
There'll be much grief for loved ones at home
when they learn that I am dead
Please ease their pain and let them know
These things that I have said
Time's run out, I can feel death's sting
Oh, God, please hear my plea
Let there be a place in heaven
For a person such as me
Lord, this is the chaplain, I'm here with this lad
Our country's given the finest it had
We who are older and have studied your word
Know this boy's prayer is more than just heard
It is answered with your love
And the promise that there'll be
A special place in heaven
For a person such as he.
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my thoughts are with you...................
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
A.Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
A.Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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I'm so sorry for your loss Ken...23 yrs. old with a one year old and a young bride...my deepest condolences 
.... please let us know if a fund is set up for his family...thankyou.
.... please let us know if a fund is set up for his family...thankyou.
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My deepest condolances for the family of Pvt.Blake. I thank God that there are still people like him in this country, he and his brothers-in-arms are what makes this country great. Words cannot express the admiration and appreciation I have for Americans like Pvt.Blake. May God bless and watch over his family, and all the heroes serving this nation so bravely.
This is what this weekend is truly about, as others have said.
This is what this weekend is truly about, as others have said.
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please acceptmy deepest condolences...i dont know what else to say...may he rest in peace
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