Quote of the Day
There is no oil without squeezing the olives,
No wine without pressing the grapes,
No fragrance without crushing the flowers,
and no real joy without sorrow.
Poem of the Day
Freedom is not
Free
I watched the flag
pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze
A young soldier saluted it, and then
He stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many Pilots' planes shot down?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No Freedom is not free
I heard the sound of taps one night,
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That taps had meant "Amen"
When a flag had draped a coffin of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No Freedom isn't free!
Kelly Strong
Cuo^.c Ca'ch Ma.ng
Tha^`n Ky`
Mu+`ng cho da^n nu+o+'c Nam Tu+
Mo+'i vu+`a pha' cu+?a ngu.c tu` thoa't ra
Mu+o+`i ba na(m, Serbia
Milosevic tha^.t la` gian ngoan
DDo^.c ta`i, chuye^n che^', da~ man
DDe^? da^n dde^? nu+o+'c la^`m than kho^'n cu`ng
DDau thu+o+ng, ta(m to^'i, mi.t mu`ng
Ne^n Qua^n Da^n dda~ cu`ng chung mo^.t lo`ng
DDu+'ng le^n gia?i cu+'u non so^ng
DDu+'ng le^n ddo`i la.i hu+`ng ddo^ng ma(.t tro+`i
Qua^n kho^ng du`ng su'ng gie^'t ngu+o+`i
Da^n kho^ng ma'u ddo^? le^. ro+i. Tha^`n ky`!
Nhie^.m ma`u thay, ne^'u mo^.t khi
Qua^n Da^n ddoa`n ke^'t ma` ddi chung ddu+o+`ng
Vie^.t Nam ta ho+~i, que^ hu+o+ng
Da^n ta tho^'ng kho^? ddau thu+o+ng nhie^`u ro^`i
Nam Tu+ ho. ddo^?i thay ddo+`i
DDu+a da^n to^.c ho. thoa't no+i ddo.a dda^`y
Vie^.t Nam! tay na('m ba`n tay...
Ma` ddu+a to^? quo^'c dde^'n nga`y vinh quang!
Ngo^ Minh Ha(`ng
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