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The fallen live on

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080526
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IN 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Civil War veteran and Supreme Court justice-to-be, gave perhaps the most famous Memorial Day speech. "To us who remain behind is left this day," he said as he summoned to mind his comrades from Massachusetts who had perished 20 years before. In the midst of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the memories are rawer, and the pain fresher, for those who knew the men and women of Massachusetts who have died this past year.

Staff Sergeant Robert R. Pirelli, once a hockey player at Franklin High School, was killed by small arms fire in Iraq. "He gave it everything he ...

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