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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Veteran-pr81</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Jun 1 2015, 8:54 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Letter that appeared in the May 29, 2015 Cranbury Press</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Bravo! Well written and straight to the meaning of Memorial Day.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>fyi</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Jun 1 2015, 7:10 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Letter that appeared in the May 29, 2015 Cranbury Press</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Letter that appeared in the May 29, 2015 Cranbury Press <br /> <br />I wrote this week’s letter as I sat in Memorial Park the day after Memorial Day and read the names of the Cranbury residents who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country- World War I- William Bull; World War II- Franklin Ely, William Hoffman, John Snow, Carl Snyder, Jean Vogt, Charles Downs, and Vietnam- Jimmy Robison. <br /> <br />On Memorial Day the Cranbury Lions Club hosted our annual Memorial Day parade which is a wonderful event and is indicative of the small ‘Norman Rockwell” town we call home. While marching each year, I am continually impressed by the number of veterans lining the route and I admire their courage. <br /> <br />After the Parade the Mayor is asked to give the keynote speech which is a privilege and honor. I was somewhat distractedly playing with my 18 month old energetic twin boys Jake and James- the other day as I thought about the speech. Jake was playing with his fire truck and James his police car. <br /> <br />While lying on the floor playing with them I started to think of the pride and nervousness my wife’s great-grandfather must have experienced the day two of his sons came to him and said, “Dad, we’ve decided to volunteer and serve our country in World War II,” two sons, two brothers….Joseph and Leon Bogusiewski. <br /> <br />Joseph and Leon were born to a couple who emigrated from Poland as teenagers seeking a better life. Joseph and Leon the two oldest brothers in a family of eight children were young, with dark hair, tall and thin. As brother’s they had a strong bond and grew up on a tobacco farm in Westfield Massachusetts near the Connecticut border. <br /> <br />They spent their time doing everything brothers growing up on a farm would do whether working hard in the field, playing games, and causing innocent trouble. <br /> <br />Leon joined the Army and went off to Europe, while Joseph joined the Navy and was sent to the Pacific. Both young men would see incredible battle; but only Joseph would be lucky enough to come home. <br /> <br />Young Leon signed up that cold day in early January 1944 to fight for our freedom and country, not knowing that he would leave behind his father, mother and family of 7 brothers and sisters. As a father, I can’t imagine the feeling of helplessness his parents felt as they received the knock on their door and were informed that their son Leon was Killed in Action in some foreign country. <br /> <br />I continued playing with my boys and as James made a siren sound, I laughed. However, my thought then turned to those parents who will no longer be able to play and hear the laughter of their sons or daughters as these mothers and fathers paid the ultimate sacrifice to serve our country and protect our freedom; father’s like my cousin’s brother-in law 35-year-old Major Thomas Kennedy. <br /> <br />Well liked he was an athlete growing up and extremely smart. Thomas was a West Point Grad and decorated officer. Thomas served our country overseas while his wife raised their young son and daughter back at home. <br /> <br />On August 8, 2012, Thomas the decorated and experienced officer and more importantly the wonderful husband and father was come upon by a Taliban suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Major Kennedy was one of four Americans killed that day. He and the others he was serving with that day were killed by someone for whom he was fighting to give freedom. The freedom we take for granted. <br /> <br />It is through playing that day with my boys that I thought not only of the sacrifices made by Leon and Thomas, of William B., Franklin, William H., John, Carl, Jean, Charles, and Jimmy; but of the sacrifices made by their families and countless others. <br /> <br />I thought of the empty seat at the dinner table or the Christmas morning when their kids eagerly bound down the stairs in the PJs to see what Santa brought and their father or mother is not there to smile and share in their joy nor are they there to think about his own childhood as their children unwrap their presents. <br /> <br />These mothers and fathers, sons and daughters lasting contribution to be remembered on Memorial Day are not the material things whether schools named in their honor or books written of their efforts. Their contribution and legacy is seen every day and every Memorial Day when the Lions Club Parade comes down Main St. Their contributions are forever remembered by safe guarding our country and freedom; some of the most valuable items we have and ones we often take for granted. <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.cranburytownship.org/Cranbury-Press052915.html" target="_blank">http://www.cranburytownship.org/Cranbury-Press052915.html</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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