Hello all,
I recently lost a dear friend in Iraq. His wife has asked me to help with getting two quotes translated into Latin to be inscribed near his grave. He was a student of Latin, unfortunately this stuff looks like Egyptian to me, which brought me to this forum. Any help translating the following two quotes would be most appreciated:
"You have never lived, until you have almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know." (I cannot find the author of this quote)
and the second is by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, chaplain of the USMC:
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the the flag."
RIP Pete...
Thanks is advance,
JJ
USMC '98-'02
I recently lost a dear friend in Iraq. His wife has asked me to help with getting two quotes translated into Latin to be inscribed near his grave. He was a student of Latin, unfortunately this stuff looks like Egyptian to me, which brought me to this forum. Any help translating the following two quotes would be most appreciated:
"You have never lived, until you have almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know." (I cannot find the author of this quote)
and the second is by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, chaplain of the USMC:
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the the flag."
RIP Pete...
Thanks is advance,
JJ
USMC '98-'02