Posted on 11/03/2008 6:43:52 AM PST by downwdims
That verse is from one of my favorite Blue Oyster Cult songs, “The Golden Age Of Leather”.
I do my best to keep it foremost in my mind, at all times.
It may be either the Celtic or Viking blood in my veins but a line from “The 13th Warrior” always struck me as the ultimate prayer to God, before any “battle”.
“Let me die well.”
I may be only a very small woman, but I hope to live up to those lines, when the time comes.
Off to bed bump!
Meet at dawn.......Yes we will........
0’s mind numb idiots are voting for more welfare, food stamps and any other freebies they can get. How sad it is that they would rather reap the bounty of someone else’s work and lick the boot of the master for the privilage rather than standup for themselves and take control of their own lives and familys.
We on the other hand are fighting for our life, our very survival, our country and our FREEDOM.
I will be there. I’m reminded of this last lines of this poem. It seems to fit how I feel today.
Good luck to us all. God speed.
“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
There's a character trait that's decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they're faced with dragon breath fire in their hair.
Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.
Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war.
But how can they know lest they've been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation's call.
The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend,
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.
To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
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