God Bless Our Troops!!

[Kregerdoodle]

A Big "Thank You" to all of our troops present and past, these are the true Hero`s

 

 

God bless them all !!

[Yammer Dan]

Thank You and the thanks go back out to the ones serving now. Thank you for all you do!!

[dr_bar]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kX_3y3u5Uo]A Pittance of Time[/ame]

 

 

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Canadian Army

 

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

 

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

 

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

[CrazyHorse]

HERE HERE:clap2:for those that served:happy65: and for those that have paid a price or the ultimate price :crying: I salute you and THANKS for your service you are appreciated at my home:clap2::clap2:

[Venturous Randy]

Well, they just had our Veterans appreciation gathering here at work in the Engineering lab. It was very nice and we were given very nice stainless mugs that said A.O.Smith on one side and U.S. Veterans on the other.

It also said Made in China on the bottom. Go figure.

RandyA

[Sleeperhawks Mechanic]

:bighug:AMEN!

[Bummer]

You're welcome, and thanks for the post.

 

Many thanks from me and mine to all the others who have served, and are serving.

[Squidley]

Got this in an email....seems very fitting, especially since a Marine wrote it.

Semper Fi

What Is A Veteran

 

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.

 

Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.

 

Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.

 

You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet?

 

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

 

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

 

She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

 

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another or didn't come back AT ALL.

 

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

 

He is the parade riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

 

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

 

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

 

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

 

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

 

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, the greatest nation ever known.

 

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU."

 

author- Father Denis Edward O'Brien USMC

Thank you to all my brothers and sisters that sacrifised part or all of your lives to make this country what it is. I am humbled to be able to stand with you for you are the heroes that I look up to.

 

 

[ronhenry4]

I just wanted to stop by and tell everyone thank you after reading all of the thank you"s from everyone to the vets who are serving now and in the past.

You see I am one of those vets I have been serving this GREAT country of ours since 1985 Im a 3 time conflict vet Panama,desert storm and 2 tours in Iraq. though i have never considered myself any type of hero or even put myself at a higher place in this world for doing what i do but it always brings a humble smile to my face to hear some one say thank you not to me but to any one who has ever served.

I also proudly serve on the honor guard in my home town of cincinnati,ohio and its a way for me to personaly give back to those who have come before me. so in closeing i just want to say thank you to all of you who take the time to say thank you to a vet.

SGT. Ronald Henry

USANG Honor Guard

[FutureVentures]

...

You see I am one of those vets I have been serving this GREAT country of ours since 1985 Im a 3 time conflict vet Panama,desert storm and 2 tours in Iraq. though i have never considered myself any type of hero or even put myself at a higher place in this world for doing what i do but it always brings a humble smile to my face to hear some one say thank you not to me but to any one who has ever served.

 

...

 

SGT. Ronald Henry

USANG Honor Guard

 

 

Ron's comments above, so well restated below:

 

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

 

Semper Fidelis.

[dr_bar]

Grandfather, Father, and two brothers, (one retired) put their time in the Canadian forces. My younger bro is a Major in the Airforce and like others, has made us all proud.

 

Thank You to my family members that served and a big Thank You to all those others that have done the same...