Remember me in your heart:
Your thoughts, and your memories,
Of the times we loved,
The times we cried ,
The times we fought,
The times we laughed.
For if you always think of me, I will never have gone.

Taken from the poem Remember Me by Margaret Mead

Paul and Barbara Selge 05/08/2021
Parents of SSG Todd W. Selge KIA

For the Fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labor of the day-time;
They sleep beyond our country's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
 
In Remembrance of A Company's Fallen
A Company, 5-20th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division
Operation Iraqi Freedom

Taken from the poem For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon, 1914

Paul and Barbara Selge 05/06/2020
Parents of SSG Todd W. Selge KIA

When our national leaders make the call for defense,
Only a few of our citizens respond to that call.
Fewer still are the ones who are actually in harm’s way.
They are the Grunts, the troops of the line.
Still a smaller number are called to give their last full measure of devotion.

Perhaps God has called home the best, those who were ready to go.
Are we be worthy of their sacrifice?
The least we can do is to honor and remember them.

We will never forget,
Paul & Barbara Selge

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

Abraham Lincoln 1864

We will never forget.
Paul & Barbara Selge

We won't forget!

Never forget the brave soldiers of A Company, 5-20th Infantry. May God bless their families.

Never forgotten

Never forgotten

Remembering Matthew and the Alexander family on this very hard day.  God Bless

Happy Birthday in heaven, Matthew.  While I didn't have the privilege of meeting you in this life, I have met your parents and I know you are a hero and I thank you for your service. Mel & Monica, may your memories of Matthew bring a smile to your face and peace in your hearts.

Never forgotten, always our Hero.

Thank you Matthew for your service and sacrifice. Hugs and prayers to your family. I know the grief you feel.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Matthew

I will always remember Matthew, he is my hero and I will never forget him.  You have become such good friends and I hold you in my heart on this very sad rememberance day. God Bless