It isn't glorious, it isn't romantic, it isn't what the movies show, but sometimes it's necessary.
For those we knew, and those we didn't. Those who came back, and those who didn't.
My great uncle Richard Lee Lyons, private first class, Company L, 342nd Regimental Combat Team, 91st Infantry. Killed by a mine at age 26, on his second day in combat,
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