[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 23437]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      EULOGY OF THE COMMON SOLDIER

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                           HON. RALPH REGULA

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 20, 2005

  Mr. REGULA. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit the following poem 
``Eulogy of the Common Soldier'' for inclusion in the Congressional 
Record. The poem was written by U.S. Army First Lieutenant Aaron Seesan 
when he was in his senior year at Washington High School in Massillon, 
Ohio. Aaron was killed in Iraq on May 22, 2005 while serving his 
country.

     All mortal beings, which God brought forth, die the same, man 
           is not exempt.
     All will inevitably end as the dust from whence we came, it 
           matters not of age.

     Do not mourn me if I should fall in a foreign land, think 
           this of my passing.
     In a far off field a finer soil mixed with the foreign sand, 
           a dust that is American.
     A dust that laughed, cried, and loved as an American, on this 
           plot there shall be.
     A little piece of America, a patch for the free man, which no 
           oppressor can take.
     From this soil grows grass shimmering a little greener, 
           brilliant emerald ramparts.
     A Breeze whisping White Poppies with a scent a little 
           sweeter, flowers towards Heaven.

     Mourn not my terrible death but celebrate my cause in life, 
           viewed noble or not.
     I would have sacrificed and gave all that I had to give, not 
           to make man good, but only to let the good man live.

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