{"id":49,"date":"2012-05-27T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/2\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-08-16T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:56:21","slug":"memorial-day-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the nice things about moving is that all around you is new again. When we lived in New York, there wasn\u2019t much I could see around me that I hadn\u2019t seen thousands of times in the past. That\u2019s not so any more.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I decided to take care of a self-imposed errand that had been in the back of my mind since we moved here \u2013 to bicycle over the Sagamore Bridge, along the north canal bike path, and then back over the Bourne Bridge. I\u2019ve driven over these dozens of times, always lamenting that I couldn\u2019t just stop and enjoy the views. Much easier to do so on a bicycle.<\/p>\n

About a mile or so west of the Sagamore Bridge, I briefly noticed a monument of some sort above and to my right. I took several seconds to think through \u2018I want to finish this ride, no, I\u2019m not in a hurry, probably its not worth looking at, maybe it is…’ and screech to a halt. I turned the bike around, pedaled to the monument, and climbed the twenty or so steps to its base.<\/p>\n

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Quite the contrast to a beautiful spring day, the morning haze just starting to lift.<\/p>\n

I imagine of all the ways to go, drowning in a breached submarine has to be among the worst. Small solace that a war was being slowly, painfully, won on the surface above.<\/p>\n

The monument speaks of 3500-plus men who realized the importance of what they were doing, and did it. I\u2019m indebted to them – if they hadn\u2019t done so, I\u2019d probably be writing this in German. Or given my religion, more likely not writing it at all.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help but reflect on what those men were at the age of eighteen, and what I was at that age. It wasn\u2019t that many years that separated us \u2013 only about thirty or so. But somehow, they \u2018got\u2019 something that I didn\u2019t, and I\u2019m only beginning to understand now. Why? I\u2019m not sure; it bears further investigation. But in the mean time, I can still be grateful for their deeds.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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