I Salute You
I wanted to take this opportunity to extend a Happy Veterans day to all my fellow old warhorses and the new warriors staying the course while your older brothers take a well-deserved day off.
The men and women comprising the forces of the United States are the finest and professional representation of today’s military. They are standing in harm’s way throughout the globe so that the citizens of America may feel safe at night.
It matters not where you may stand on the issue of the war on terrorism, your support or non-agreement is what shall define this war in the days to come. What matters is for our nation to stand collectively and vocally supportive of the men and women charged with this task. They are the ones that fight and die, not the politicians in Washington or your city and state elected representatives.
While the politicians argue, vacillating from one day to the next on any given issue, our military still faces the enemy head on in hot spots as Iraq and Afghanistan. They do so in the professional standards set down by their older brothers and sisters who served in places such as, Mogadishu, Viet Nam, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Ardennes Forest and many other names that today are only a whisper on a few peoples lips.
These whispers were louder then and our military faced them with the courage and valor of General George Patton as well as the fortitude of Ghengis Khan. The leadership of our military has left us with names that forever live on in valor, William Tecumseh Sherman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton and a host of all star leaders that have led our country though many problems, all the while conducting themselves as the professional officer they were.
To the warriors of today and my brothers and sisters of yesterday I salute you.
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"All the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our Forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth."
– Robert E. Lee
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Number 1 (1776)
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fail again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who does know the great enthusiasm, the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Ranter---Love and Honor to you and Wild Bill---and especially those heroes and friends you left behind.
And anythang we may have done can only be attributed to those Moms like you who were our best friends in our time of indecisions..
Patriotic Americans are RAISED, not just BORN !!
Thanx, you bring a tear and a lump to my throat.
Before Bear and before E you were always in my heart.
I watched TV and saw yer war from close-ups (and yet so far away). It was very personal to me and horrific. To this day when E asks me to watch a war themed movie...I just can't...As God is my witness, some part of my soul was there with you, on whatever level...I can't explain it...I don't try anymore. Truth be told the military is family to me and so deeply entrenched in my mind and heart that while not ever having served I feel like on some level in some other time and place I have.
Perhaps tht is the thread E picked up on in his growing years. He too felt his future calling from the past.
I knew he had to go. I knew he had to serve. Like his father and both grandfathers b4 him.
It is in our DNA. And I mean that literally.
I am so proud of our military who sacrifice everything for us. As you and I know when you get older your most valuable commodity is TIME. You can't store it and you don't get it back and with every day there is less of it.
God bless everyone who has stepped forward to serve our country. May He bless them as they have blessed us.
Wild Bill, love the quotes, I copied them to save for future times.
Thanks
Have a great vet weekend.
Ranter
Mamabear, your statement of, "Perhaps tht is the thread E picked up on in his growing years. He too felt his future calling from the past." Was beautiful.
Thank you. You are a special person.
Our best to E,
Ranter
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