We want to thank everyone  involved in the 2012 Memorial Day Broadcast:

Our producer/engineer Kayla Winsor

Co-host Julie Hurrie, Run for the Fallen – NH ( www.runforthefallennh.org)

Gold Star Donna Ouellete, mother of Michael Ouellete (http://nh.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=NHDR_OuelletteFund_VeteransServices)

Sue Peterson, Honor and Remember – NH (http://www.honorandremember.org/tag/nh/)

Skip Jackson, proprietor for Carrabbas in Bedford, NH. http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100826-NEWS-100829855

 

A very special thank-you to Gold Star Mother Natalie Healy (http://www.navyseals.com/daniel-r-healy) and Gold Star Mother Elaine Gibson (http://merrimack.patch.com/articles/finding-comfort-from-those-who-understand#photo-7491718) for the reading of the Honor Roll of NH’s Fallen Soldiers:

List of NH’s Fallen Soldiers – Memorial Day 2012

 

Lyrics to the songs played during the broadcast:

 

Mansions Of The Lord

Sung by the West Point Cadets

 (Played at the reading of NH’s Fallen)

To fallen soldiers let us sing

Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing

Our broken brothers let us bring

To the Mansions of the Lord

No more bleeding, no more fight

No prayers pleading through the night

Just divine embrace, eternal light

To the Mansions of the Lord.

Where no mothers cry and no children weep

We will stand and guard though the angels sleep

Through the ages safely keep

The Mansions of the Lord.

 

 

 

“Requiem For A Soldier”

Sung by Katherine Jenkins

 

You never lived to see

What you gave to me

One shining dream of hope and love

Life and liberty

 

With a host of brave unknown soldiers

For your company, you will live forever

Here in our memory

 

In fields of sacrifice

Heroes paid the price

Young men who died for old men’s wars

Gone to paradise

 

We are all one great band of brothers

And one day you’ll see we can live together

When all the world is free

 

I wish you’d lived to see

All you gave to me

Your shining dream of hope and love

Life and liberty

 

We are all one great band of brothers

And one day you’ll see – we can live together

When all the world is free

 

 

 

The Angels Came Down

Sung by Kevin Cosner

 (Played at the end of the broadcast)

Walking all alone in the Southern rain

By graveyards and battlefields that blood still stains

Back to a time when the angels came

Walking all alone in the Southern rain

In the forests and the fields so many men were killed

I can hear their cries still echo through these hills

That was the time when the angels came

Walking all alone in the Southern rain

The angels came down to the fallen men

They held their hands and they prayed for them

They carried their souls beyond the moon and the sun

All the way to heaven one by one

The angels worked so hard for so many years

To heaven and back again they shed so many tears

They left no one and they placed no blame

Walking all alone in the Southern rain

The angels came down to the fallen men

They held their hands and they prayed for them

They carried their souls beyond the moon and the sun

All the way to heaven one by one

Walking all alone in the Southern rain

Never heal the troubles never heal the pain

But that was the time when the angels came

Walking all alone in the Southern Rain

 

 

 

For You

Sung by Keith Urban

 

All I saw was smoke and fire; I didn’t feel a thing,

but suddenly I was rising higher.

And I felt like I’d just made the biggest mistake

when I though about my unborn child;

 

when I thought about my wife.

And the answer rang out clear

from somewhere up above:

No greater gift has man, but to lay down his life for love.

 

And I wonder, would I give my life?

Could I make that sacrifice?

If it came down to it, could I take the bullet, I would.

Yes I would for you.

 

Maybe you don’t understand

I don’t understand it all myself.

But there’s a brother on my left and another on my right.

And in his pocket just like mine, he’s got a photograph.

And they’re waiting for him back home.

 

And it’s weighing on my mind.

I’m not trying to be a hero;

I don’t wanna die.

But right now in this moment, you don’t think twice.

 

I wonder, would I give my life?

Could I make that sacrifice?

If it came down to it, could I take the bullet, I would.

Yes I would.

 

You don’t think about right; you don’t think about wrong.

You just do what you gotta do to defend your own.

And I’d do the same for you -

Yes I would.

 

I would give my life.

I would make that sacrifice.

‘Cause if it came down to it, could I take the bullet, I would.

Yes I would do it for you.

I’d do it for you.