Poetry: Youth by Tom Sleigh
Smelling of sweet resin the Aleppo Pines’
shadow grows taller by the hour. Two identical
twin boys chase each other through the shadows,
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Song In My Head: Dear Uncle Sam by Loretta Lynn
Sculpture: New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial
Self-Care: 5 Tips for Self-Care On Memorial Day
Recipe: Traditional Potato Salad
Worth Reading: The Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln
Excerpt: “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, shallot perish from the earth.”
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