So Great a Price We had to Pay

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This poem appears in the 2018 Spring issue of Veteran’s Voices, page 27 By Tom Reilly, Sgt. U.S. Army, Vietnam 1969-70 We said good-bye, I left for war, We pledged too much to hump that far. Come back the boy you are today. I hope…

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Fields of Stone

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Reflections at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Tom Reilly, Sgt. US Army, Vietnam 1969-70 Rolling hills, sacred space carved by God’s hand High ground, a fitting journey’s end for soldiers, Spills life into the flowing Mississippi below. A tree here, a bench there, a flag playing…

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There Is No Such Thing as An Apples-to-Apples Comparison

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by Tom Reilly Price shoppers use value-stripping to gain price concessions by sellers. This means that buyers reduce the offer to its most fundamental and generic properties; they commoditize the product. Salespeople must not participate in this game. And, this is a game. In Value-Added…

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