![]() ![]() from South Jersey will be honored by the Eagles and Tri-State Toyota in their Salute to Service campaign. On Sunday, immediately following the national anthem of the Eagles-Chargers game, 99-year-old World War II veteran Elmer Beach and 89-year-old Korean War veteran Charlie Foulke Jr. They keep it bottled up, a sort of survivor’s guilt that they’re burdened with for the rest of their lives as to why they’re alive and their buddies left behind are not. ![]() It’s like an unspoken code among service veterans who have survived combat. It’s saved for only those singular ones like themselves, those have been to scorched-earth places no one wants to tread, who saw the cruelty of mankind at its utmost. Those who have been through it never want to talk about it.
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