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YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THIS SMALL TABLE SET IN A PLACE OF HONOR. IT IS SET FOR ONE. THIS TABLE IS OUR WAY
OF RECOGNIZING THE KINDRED FEELINGS THAT MEMBERS OF OUR PROFESSION OF ARMS ARE MISSING FROM OUR MIDST.
THEY ARE COMMONLY CALLED POW'S OR MIA'S. WE CALL THEM BROTHERS. THEY ARE UNABLE TO BE WITH US SO
REMEMBER THEM. THIS TABLE, SET FOR ONE, IS SMALL. IT SYMBOLIZES THE FUTILITY OF ONE PRISONER AGAINST HIS
OPRESSORS. THE TABLECLOTH IS WHITE. IT SYMBOLIZES THE PURITY OF THEIR INTENTION TO RESPOND TO THEIR
COUNTRY'S CALL TO ARMS. THE SINGLE ROSE, DISPLAYED IN A VASE, REMINDS OF THE FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES OF
OUR COMRADES WHO KEEP FAITH AWAITING THEIR RETURN. THE RED RIBBON, TIED SO PROMINENTLY ON THE VASE, IS
REMINISCENT OF THE RED RIBBONS WORN UPON THE LAPELS AND BREASTS OF THE THOUSANDS WHO BEAR WITNESS TO
THEIR UNYIELDING DETERMINATION TO DEMAND A PROPER ACCOUNTING OF OUR MISSING. A SLICE OF LEMON IS ON
THE PLATE TO REMIND US OF THEIR BITTER FATE. THERE IS SALT UPON THE PLATE, SYMBOLIC OF THE FAMILY'S
TEARS AS THEY WAIT. THE GLASS IS INVERTED, THEY CANNOT TOAST WITH US TONIGHT. THE CHAIR, THE CHAIR IS
EMPTY. THEY ARE NOT HERE. REMEMBER!! ALL OF US WHO SERVED WITH THEM AND CALLED THEM COMRADES, YOU
WHO DEPENDED UPON THEIR MIGHT AND AID AND RELIED UPON THEM, DO NOT FORSAKE THEM.

PRAY FOR THEM AND REMEMBER THEM.