A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day...11-11-03....A Tribute to Our Veterans Past and Present...

Dutchess and Billie

[Billie]

This one's really touching! Just beautiful!

[Aquamarine]

Thanks Billie! :)

[Billie]

We salute these veterans - your family and friends! Thank you for naming them here today.

[Dubya]

FINAL SALUTE

[Dubya]

Lone Star veterans perform in D.C.

[Dubya]

I have posted this before, but for all those who have served, from Marathon to the 2nd Gulf war......
i am proud to have served alongside them.......

Freedom Is :

Freedom is : the colonial militia dragging siege cannon two miles through waist and shoulder deep mud , siege of Louisburg, 1754
Freedom is : using sledges to move cannon through the winter wilderness 200 miles from fort Ticonderoga to Boston...
Freedom is : The progress of Washington's army marching on Trenton could be seen through the bloody footprints in the snow…
Freedom is: The heroic stand of Arnolds fleet on Lake Champlain that made
the victory at Saratoga possible…
Freedom is: John Paul Jones : I have not yet begun to fight…
Freedom is : Stephen Decater : Gentlemen, our country...may she always be in the right...but right or wrong; gentlemen, our country…
Freedom is : The gun deck of the Frigate Constitution…
Freedom is : The bloody fields of Manassas, Little Round Top at Gettysburg,
And the mother who there gave her 5 sons on the altar of freedom…
Freedom is : The courage of Enchanted Horse, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph…
Freedom is : The 7th Calvary at the Little big Horn…
Freedom is : Roosevelt at San Juan hill, our Naval battle line in Manila Bay…
Freedom is : A torpedoed ship blazing at midnight, and the little white crosses
on Flanders field…
Freedom is the bodies of young soldiers and marines gently washing in the surf at Iwo Jima, Siapan, Normandy…
Freedom is : Pusan, Inchon, the hellish light of star shells, and waves of the
enemy breaking at our wire…
Freedom is : our young men who are still in Vietnam…

Freedom is : A young soldiers widow receiving the colors as he is laid to rest…
Blood and Tears, Duty and Honor, GOD and Country…
For those of us who have stood between the candle and the darkness, that is what
Freedom really is………….
Lewis Brackett, august, 1999

[Dubya]

saw an interesting bumper sticker the other day that stated: "If you can read this thank a teacher and if your reading this in English thank a veteran".

[ladyinred]

At the conclusion, as I mingled once again, I was asked to participate in the program portion of the candle-light vigil tonight. Soooo, I'll have to suck in my gut again tonight as I button those thirteen buttons on my trousers. :)

LOL! Wonderful post Dave. Thanks for your service!

[dixie sass]

That sentiment is a keeper. So true!

[dixie sass]

My vet isn't here but ((((((((all of FR's finest Vets))))))))

[dixie sass]

((((((((((((Blue Star Moms and Gold Star Moms)))))))))) They are vets also!

Reading a special tribute to them tonight on the Patriots Radio show on Paltalk. Y'all come - 11pm est.

[dixie sass]

A beautiful tribute for all who have fallen in the service of our Country. Thank you M'n'M.

[dixie sass]

That they do, Yer Honor.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you. :O)

[Dubya]

LOL Thanks Dave.

[Dubya]

Thanks Dixie.

[dixie sass]

Daddy was getting ready to go to China.

[Dubya]

just got some bad news today. A wonderful woman and soldier that I had the pleasure of knowing was killed in Iraq last week when the Black Hawk she was in was shot down. CW5 Sharon Swartworth served 26 years in the Army and was about to retire.

I'm so sorry about your friend.

[dixie sass]

I have spent the day in tears reading various things pertaining today. But this has really done me in - Dubya, I've got to go on live radio at Patriot tonight and take part in the Veterans Day show - It's going to be hard to do it through the tears.

[dixie sass]

Please ping the rest of the Vet Corp group to this thread.