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If you love your freedom
53hawkeye
Member Posts: 4,673
THANK A VET.
Especially today.
Especially today.
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Thank you God, Founding fathers of America, all the patriots and soldiers who believed in freedom and supported our founding fathers, thank you to all the men and women in the armed forces today, thank you modern day patriots who stay armed and alert.
Thank all of you people.
many many many millions of Americans know what was fought for, and know the fight never ends.
edit: there.
Prayer sent for all vets. May God bless.
We still have freedom if you don't consider 4,789,624 laws, rules and regulations by city, county, state and federal govs to be an infringment.
People in China have a LOT more freedom than we do simply because they have very few laws.
Today is a somber, sad day for myself. Today we memorialize those who made the ultimate sacrifice, for our freedoms.
Today, I visited a cemetery. Not much to be happy about, except that I got to know some very nice fellows, who are no longer with us.
I know that many have their hearts in the right place, but lack understanding of this day's significance.
Please, don't wish me a happy Memorial Day. It just won't happen.
Please, Save your thanks for Veterans day, at least for this Vet.
Today is a somber, sad day for myself. Today we memorialize those who made the ultimate sacrifice, for our freedoms.
Today, I visited a cemetery. Not much to be happy about, except that I got to know some very nice fellows, who are no longer with us.
I know that many have their hearts in the right place, but lack understanding of this day's significance.
Please, don't wish me a happy Memorial Day. It just won't happen.
AMEN..
Please, Save your thanks for Veterans day, at least for this Vet.
Today is a somber, sad day for myself. Today we memorialize those who made the ultimate sacrifice, for our freedoms.
Today, I visited a cemetery. Not much to be happy about, except that I got to know some very nice fellows, who are no longer with us.
I know that many have their hearts in the right place, but lack understanding of this day's significance.
Please, don't wish me a happy Memorial Day. It just won't happen.
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I love what's left of my freedom and those who degrade it under the guise of safety are a belligerent disgrace to all vets that have ever lived.
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.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, or leave their childern free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
This hymn was written by Ralph Waldo Emerson for the dedication of the monument at Concord on July 4, 1837.