CARRY ME <br><br>Once upon a time there was a veteran who never joined or participated in any veteran's organizations or activities. <br><br>All his life he took the benefits and entitlements won for him by the veteran's service organizations. He had a ten point preference, a GI loan, went to school on the GI Bill and Veteran's Employment even got him a job. These are a few of the many benefits he enjoyed, but he still refused to join or participate. <br> :-[<br>On the day of his death he asked his wife, &quot;Please do one last thing for me. I would like to be buried in a National Cemetery, have a military marker and I would like to have a veteran's organization provide an Honor Guard and act as pallbearers.&quot; <br><br>But you never belonged or participated in any veteran's organizations, his wife exclaimed. Why do you want them for pall bearers? Dear he replied, &quot;They carried me this far, they might as well carry me the rest of the way.&quot; :-[