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Preface: Veterans, and World War II, are special to me.

My Dad is not alive now. If he were, like the other veterans of WWII, he would be in his 80s. WWII veterans are dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. We baby boomers, well, our generation was so-named because many of us were born when our dads came back from the war.

In my case, I was born while my dad was in France, serving in the Army, an artillery officer. He enlisted from college, and was sent (from a Chicago suburb, and Yale) to Fort Hood (later Camp Hood) in Texas ... where, of course, he met my Mom at a dance, and they married, and rest was history.

Not long after, he was deployed overseas, and he didn't return until we (I have a twin) were nearly 2 years old. Mom and me and my sister lived with her parents until he returned, as many brides and kids did.

My dad was a soldier. He didn't talk much about the war. To him you didn't talk about things like that. I once asked him when I was a little girl if he'd ever killed anyone, and he just got mad and told me not to ask questions like that.

He talked about "doing your duty", however, and in fact that's how Nixon got him to become chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission at a difficult time, when it was hard to find someone to take on the job. The SEC had been scandalized, and the stock market was at an all-time low, with no relief in sight. Nixon sent General Haig to talk to my dad, and the general told him it was his duty. And so he went, into another war of sorts.

TO MY DAD, RAY GARRETT, JR., FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.

Thanks, Dad. Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you.
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The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood!

Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray Beach, Fla., eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event.

He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. "I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he said bitterly.

At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you."

Then the old soldier began to cry.

"That really got to me," Bierstock says.

Cut to today.

Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach - a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful "Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die.

"If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "The WW II soldiers are now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank them."

The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web http://www.beforeyougo.us, the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren.

"It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son.

Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan and Omaha Beach.

"I can never thank them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking about them."

Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web. They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it.

GOD BLESS every EVERY veteran...and THANK you to those of you veterans who may receive this !

CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE SONG AND SEE THE PICTURES. Then share it -- and send it to everyone you know!