Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Todd Selge's] wife spoke how she recently

found his personal notebook he had kept hidden. She said she was surprised to find a poem he wrote, one that expressed his love for her. It ends, "I know this poem might be tacky, but all I want to do is make you happy."

His father, Paul, spoke of his son's love for his country.

"General Patton said, 'It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men and women who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.' That is what I feel about my son Todd."

Brig. Gen. Leslie Smith then presented Selge's family with a Bronze Star.

from Pioneer Press: Burnsville soldier remembered as a patriot

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