Memorial Day--- DU style!

5/26/06 | demented lib

[dukeman]

Speechless.

[darkangel82]

What do you expect from the DUmp?

[SIDENET]

Those fools are consistent.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Geeeze, sounds like someone I may have gone through HS with in 11229.

[Quark606]

So, what, were we just supposed to write Hitler a letter asking him to stop conquering the world?

[Radix]

Orwell.

[SouthTexas]

The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood!

Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray Beach, Fla. , eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event.

He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. "I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he said bitterly.

At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you."

Then the old soldier began to cry.

"That really got to me," Bierstock says.

Cut to today.

Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach - a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful "Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die.

"If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "The WW II soldiers are now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank them."

The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web, the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren.

"It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan and Omaha Beach. "I can never thank them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking about them."

Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web.! They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it.

GOD BLESS every EVERY veteran...
and THANK you to those of you veterans who may receive this !

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO HEAR THE SONG AND SEE THE PICTURES:


http://www.managedmusic.com/beforeyougo.html

[Horatio Gates]

How many countries can you spew moonbat guano like that and get away with it?

[tiredoflaundry]

Jara sang (1000+ posts) Fri May-26-06 04:50 PM Original message So, we are on the eve of yet another nationalist holiday. Is it fascism yet? Before anybody jumps on me for NOT "supporting the troops". I would just like to say that I don't think wars of aggression, bombing and murdering civilians, and imperialist dogma is particularly worthy of a holiday.

Many brave men died in order to give that pos the right to say it. That never crosses their minds.

[darkangel82]

These people would have agreed with Hitler.

[avacado]

It so sad to see the result 22 years later of a crack baby. Just sad.

[Quark606]

Thanks to all the troops from 1776 to today. We always fought for freedom. I don't think we ever really fought a war of aggression.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

He's actually worried about someone "jumping on him" for not supporting the troops--at DU??

[Echo Talon]

The word "dolt" comes to mind.

[tiredoflaundry]

Harsher words came to my mind!

[Names Ash Housewares]

What a moonbat!

Totally clueless where their freedom comes from and the price that it costs.

I would love to see one of them get a dose of reality in some alternate timeline where the United States did not prevail and they had to live in a world dominated by tyrants and empires. Perhaps this person would enjoy living under the Japanese empire, or NAZI rule, or perhaps a nice Taliban regime to persue happiness in.

Fools. Ya gotta laugh at them.

[tet68]

"... I would just like to say that I don't think wars of aggression, bombing and murdering civilians, and imperialist dogma is particularly worthy of a holiday."

And Palestinian/Iranian/muslims, dancing in the streets
and passing out candy and sweets on Sept. 11th. What about
that eh?

[BamaAndy]

I am of the conviction it is unseemly and rude to say anything "hurtful" to a retarded person. How sick, warped and assinine she must be. Pity the fool. Oops, I've said some things that might hurt the retard's feelings.
I was in the Corps (69-71) and no one I was around, dear retard, wanted to kill anyone. Obviously you've never been part of the defensive military. Pity this foolish ideas, the foolish person.

[tiredoflaundry]

But that is different! /sarc

[Echo Talon]

:)