In The Game Of Life
Floor Speech
IN THE GAME OF LIFE -- (Extensions of Remarks - March 19, 2007)
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, in tribute of slain Marine Jimmy Regan, Albert Carey Caswell, United States Capitol Tour Guide, penned the following poem:
``In the game of life,
There's only what's wrong or right!
For there are only the very few, who shall so shine there so who ..... are so very bright!
``For only one thing so counts,
For only one score so adds up, that which so amounts .....
For it's all about what we've so said and done, and what is really true ..... as so to be won!
``For there are no second chances!
In these our short minutes, upon this earth ..... as our time here so advances .....
Our goal! All in what we've said and done, for whom we've so bled ..... to take our valiant stances!
``Whether, upon fields of green .....
Or on oh so heroic battlefields of honor Ðseen .....
Jimmy, was always the one! A brave heart! As a leader of men, time and time again!
``A Marine's Marine,
A brave heart who once so lived, who so gallantly chose to give .....
Facing death, with only his magnificent courage left ..... his heart of a lion seen could not be checked!
``Fast breaking in the game of life, writing his book of sacrifice .....
To this our world he so gave, but never took ..... no mistaking around him the earth so shook!
Strength in Honor ..... was his great life's measure, in each and every step he ever took!
``For so few of us shall ever be such a treasure,
For so few of us such magnificence, as a hero to their Country shall be so measured!
Such Splendid Splendor, was Jimmy ..... who to our Lord's heart brought such pleasure!
``For in the minutes and the hours,
Of our lives upon this earth we give now, upon all others which so shower!
Are our gifts of Freedom and Peace, in our Lord's eye's hold such power!
``To Make a Difference With It All,
To be a champion in life! As what Jimmy so lived for and died, as for what he saw!
Could we, would we ..... ever such the strength so find, to stand as tall as him in time?
``In the game of life,
Every moment is important, and so sacred until our final nights!
For such valor and sacrifice ..... our Lord God, Jimmy you up to Heaven has called!
``For life is not a game,
As each day and night, are so precious the moments we're alive to claim.
And Freedom is not free, only bought and paid for by America's greatest of all names!''
In honor of a Real American Hero, Jimmy Regan ..... God Bless you, my Son, and may your family find peace!
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