Welcome Home Allegra!
Welcome back from Iraq!
Your job as a contractor there is appreciated!
Merry Christmas!
Thanks Billie!
Welcome Home, Allegra!!
"Got Issues!!"
(To be sung to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Got Issues!!")
Got issues, how I wish you saw...
Bombastic Lib'ral know-it-all...
Votes fer lies and RATS' LeftWing Cause...
What's a word like "fair"?!
Why that far-off stare?! Yer just sosh'list fools and...
What's the word on Kerry?! You Big Guv'ment tools...yeah!!
Patriots, we must stand tall...
Whup Left's nutty world...help Big Guv'ment fall!!
Callin' all folks like myself...
To fight fer starts of State-wide wealth 'cuz...
"FRee"'s the word, I care...we're voters, too!!
FReep the World, I swear...Left's broken fools and...
Righteous world is "fair"...you'll know it, too!!
(nice guitar break)
MUD's "cause" is the RAT-whore'd's fall...
Lib-uhh-rulls think they know it all!!
Leftists lies 'bout Viet Nam, but...
Trust the words I share...
Righteous World's quite "fair"!! Dem Leftist goons...
What's the word on Kerry? Left's sosh'list fool!!
Ain't jokin' 'cuz Slick broke the law...
Left ain't Right...RATS gotta fall!!
Oughtta FReep...answer the call...
Yer Nation needs you, too...gonna have a Ball!!
"FRee"'s the word, I care...we're voters, too!!
FReep the World, I swear...Left's broken fools and...
Righteous world is "fair"...you'll know it, too!!
(sweet guitar pickin')
Got issues, how I wish you saw...
Quite spastic Lib'ral know-it-all...
Chi-Com spies and Leftists who pause...
RightWing World ain't scary!!
Righteous World's quite "fair"...US voters knew!!
RightWing world ain't scary!! Sing righteous tunes!!
FReep the World...we care!! US voters knew!!
FReegards...MUD
BTTT!!!!!!
Allegra,So happy to hear you are home for a while.My granddaughter Karen was there and is home now.She sent me this poem in an email a few days ago.Prayers for your friends there,try not to worry.fatima
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF
PLASTER AND STONE.
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY
WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO
IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.
I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,
A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,
NOT EVEN A TREE.
NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,
JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES
OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,
AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT
CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,
IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,
ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,
SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR
IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,
THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED
A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO
OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,
THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALIZED THE FAMILIES
THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS
WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD,
THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE
A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM
EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,
LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER
HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE
IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT
BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES
AND STARTED TO CRY.
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED
AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
"SANTA DON'T CRY,
THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,
MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS."
THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER
AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,
I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,
SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED
FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE
ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR
SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA,
IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE."
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,
AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT."
This poem was written by a Marine stationed in
Okinawa Japan.
The following is his request. I think it is
reasonable.....
PLEASE. Would you do me the kind favor of sending
this to as many
people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and
some credit is due
to our U.S. service men and women for our being able
to celebrate these
festivities.Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny
bit of what we
owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living
and dead, who
sacrificed themselves for us. Please, do your small
part to plant this
small seed.
Welcome Home!!
Eat all you want!
Sleep late!!
And hire someone to shovel the snow, no matter how much you miss it!
Besides, I am willing to bet you never spent your entire paycheck once while in country, so you must have major bucks to blow on Christmas gifts for the family!
LET people buy your coffee, dont act humble, stick yur chest out, and when people ask you if you been to Iraq, do your best John Wayne voice and say, "Yeahhh..."
Thanks for a' comin' and a' pingin' others, Tonk. :)