I thank you all for your sacrifice, above everything, one veteran to another. The phrase 'war is hell' sounds contrite, but it is true. Scars will be part of life and of service. How you deal with them is what people will remember you by. It IS hell. Marines are a host of complex things. Compassion for life lived and lost, love and loved, is a large part of the heart and mind of a Marine. This love is a monument to the life that you honor with your compassion. For one Marine and all. And in the end, love is where you have to find yourself. Heart and mind. For it is for love that your sacrifice was made. Whether or not you know it now. Whether you find that love in your heart as a product of who you are or have been or in the love of God, love is the root of your emotion and the root from which you must find solace. May God find your pain and eliminate it and replace it with His Love. For life. For comrades. For the Corps. Semper Fi.