The neighborhood is home to veterans. You can see the uniformed men and women heading to nearby Fort Mac or other duty stations. Some hang service flags from their porches.
Their service to our country is commended.
So, in honor of Veteran's Day:
Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena"
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic" speech, 1910
The Spirit of America: The Patriotic Music of John Phillip Sousa
