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The Olympian: Slain Rainier soldier to be remembered Thursday with portrait at Capitol

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 4:57am.

The Olympian: Slain Rainier soldier to be remembered Thursday with portrait at Capitol:

Army Sgt. Justin Norton of Rainier, who was killed in Iraq in June of 2006, will be remembered Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Capitol Campus in Olympia. Artist Michael Reagan of Edmonds will present a portrait of the slain soldier to his family at the state Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

O blow ye evil winds into my body's fire my soul you'll never unravel.

Even though disappointed a thousand times or fallen in the fight and everything would worthless seem,

I have lived amidst eternity -- Be grateful, my soul -- My life was worth living.

He who was pressed from all sides but remained victorious in spirit is welcomed into the choir of heroes.

He who overcame the fetters giving wings to his mind is entering into the golden age of the victorious.

Norbert Capek

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Listened to this soldier poet on NPR last night

Submitted by Guglielmo on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 12:05pm.

Ashbah (Ghosts)
The ghosts of American soldiers
wander the streets of Balad by night,
unsure of their way home, exhausted,
the desert wind blowing trash
down the narrow alleys as a voice
sounds from the minaret, a soulfull call
reminding them how alone they are, how lost.
And the Iraqi dead, they watch in silence
from rooftops as date palms line the shore in silhouette,
leaning toward Mecca when the dawn wind blows.
--Brian Turner, Here, Bullet.

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