Veterans Day 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Stop, Remember, Say A Prayer, and Thank A Veteran!
We should celebrate Veterans Day everyday. They have served and sacrificed to guarantee our freedom. They have done the heavy lifting for all of us. At the very least we all owe them an unending debt of gratitude.
Thank A Veteran!
~Robocop
God Bless all our Veterans from every war,past and present.
Ditto that first post. God Bless all our troops and veterans from any war…past and present.
AWD:
1000% Never have so few done so much for so many. G-d speed.
OohRah
Semper Fi!
What I wanna know is, if it’s Veterans Day, how come that preppie chick down at the bank, and the hippie at the Post office get the day off?
Yet, I gotta go to work?
God Bless all my Brother’s in Arms
God bless all of our Veterans, passed, present, and future.
“Only two people have ever volunteered to die for us Americans; Jesus did to save our souls and the American serviceman to keep us free”….???
“If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read it in English, thank a Vet”….???
We should make every POS liberal, commie, socialist, democrat watch the video posted below, for 24 hours straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEePD1nJxo&feature=related
It’s a shame that liberals and their minions mock veterans. The very heroes come back home, only to be treated like crap. I’m surprised the libs didn’t try to ban Veterans Day yet.
All veterans should be thanked for dedicating their lives to protect us.
I thank all veterans. Thank you.
The video in the link below is just as touching now as it was when released 25 years ago. Trouble is, I wonder what percentage of the population is still proud to be an American. I AM, as much as ever and, though I have not served in the military, I will defend her against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, and the biggest enemy right now is our “progressive” enemy within, with the “religion of peace” a very close second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssIN3ustUw
We’ll sure put a boot in your ass, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSWuA-RttGU&feature=channel
To all you grunts, you gyrenes, you swabbies, you flyboys, seabeesand coasties, you young guys who succeeded us and watch over our country—
to all you Moms and dads, sisters and brothers , loving families of our service people–God bless you, I thank you.
You kids in uniform today are a large part of any hope I have that this country can be saved—Thank you from my heart.
May God protect you and bring you home safe. May God restore true Americans to administer this great country to assure you that your efforts for us are not in vain.May God save the country that you believe in –in the way you believe in it!!
To our troops who are veterans already–I salute you!! I prayed for you this morning. This evening, I will pour a drink and salute you.
Misterbill
You are always in my mind……
Stumbled on your website from the latest hot topic on Google Trends. Read the whole article and i must have to say that me and my husband loved reading your post.
Too all my brothers and sisters in uniform, past and present….God bless you!
retired vet 1986-2008
Blue eyed devil, thanks for your brave service to our country from all of us angry white dudes and welcome to the AWD family! Happy Veteran’s Day!
AWD
misterb…and all others here that served and are serving, those long past as well…you have our eternal gratitude from this home.
THANK YOU ALL!
Happy Veteran’s Day!
Just called my son, he and his buddies (vets and active duties) are going to Applebees for a free meal. It is nice of them to do this.
Flags flying everywhere. Its a proud day.
Here is a great post from a friend that posts this every year.
WHAT IS A VET?
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, 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”.
added 11/10/06
He was my father, a man whose departure has left a pair of shoes that I can’t fill by half.
He was my friend. He watched my back when I was watching his.
He was the high school classmate whose body was never recovered.
He was everybody’s dad back in the 50′s, and we were all proud of them.
He was the nameless Lieutenant who wiped the spit of demonstrators off his clean uniform.
He is my brother, my cousin, my uncle. He was our grandfathers. And he was at times afraid, but he did his duty in spite of his fear, because he thought we had something worth fighting for.
“A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to America for an amount of up to and including his life. That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.”
Author Unknown
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Thanks Robocop and AWD..and all my fellow dudes and dudettes and all my brothers and sisters in arms…
..I’d gladly take the heat again for all of you……
“The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”- Robert E. Lee
Hillbilly Jack
To all those who have served and currently serving, thank you.
My wife’s family has strong ties to the military. Her dad was a pilot for the USAF during Veitnam, both grandfathers served, one Army, the other USAF, and her uncle was in the 101st Airborne at Bastogne.