Posted on 04/24/2005 7:41:48 PM PDT by The Mayor
:)
Dear LadyX,
I've got a Texas sized lump in my throat and my eyes are watering. Tears of gratitude for this soldier and all the others who gave their all and tears of pride are overflowing. The American Spirit comes alive in each picture. Thank you.
Thank you for posting it, Mayor.
God Bless America and our Troops.
If you look at my Profie Page, you'll see I served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean Conflict as a Classroom Subjects Instructor of women recruits at Parris Island.
Later were years as a military wife - in 1969 changing to retail management, and then 19 in the medical field...
a true All American Woman!
LOL
If you look at the top of this thread where Billie has the collages of veterans or family of posters who served, you'll see my photograph near the center, with TexasCowboy to my left...
Oh great. I'm sitting here with The Goofy Logan GrinTM plastered on my face. :)
I'm proud of ya, LadyX...real proud.
When he went in the Marine Corps in San Diego, he was the Right Guide for his platoon.
When I went to Parris Island (before TC, 5 years behind me), I was the Right Guide for my platoon, and that August I was out front with my Company A Commander, carrying the American Flag as Guidon Bearer, leading a parade --
out front of the 8 full companies participating in the Dedication Ceremony for the Iwo Jima Monument on the Parade Deck.
The sculptor did that one (paid for by Marines only) as his prototype for the later one in D.C.
Fantastic honor and moment in my life!
That is SO cool!!!
Hope to see you later, Rat Woman..:))
Nite, LadyX!!! Sleep well!
Talk to ya tomorrow...!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1052805/posts?page=8
A Soldier's Funeral - Texas Style
Webpage (unknown) ^ | Summer 2003 | Vicki Pierce & Donna Smith
Posted on 01/06/2004 4:45:05 PM CST by I_Publius
SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, TEXAS STYLE
Specialist James Kiehl, age 22, from Comfort, Texas, was killed, along with six other soldiers at the same place and the same day that Jessica Lynch was taken prisoner. His body was one of those that our special forces heroes dug up with their bare hands near the hospital in Iraq. They held the funeral service in Comfort at the Baptist Church, and then took him ten miles to Center Point, Texas, and buried him.
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More about our Texas fallen hero. I cannot find the original thread..I saved this one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1390469/posts?page=1
Gunny Bob's "Hall of Heroes" - (Salute to some of our veterans in the War on Terror)
850 KOA - Gunny Bob Newman ^ | April 2005 | Gunny Bob Newman
Today marks the anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. As it so happens, The Traveling Wall is in our area with closing ceremonies Tuesday evening.
Mrs d and I stopped by to pay our respects to honor those whose names are inscribed on the black panels this afternoon.
TAPS
RIP James
What awesome moving photos thank you in sharing them isn't the internet wonderful that me in Ashford, Kent England can see these wonderful photos.
I've been in Florida on some of the main thoroughfare in Lauderdale and watched people cut in and out of a procession. But then I've also seen them cutting off the police and ambulance and other emergency vehicles down there also.
Maggie and Russ, I can't find the tissue and the puppy thinks I'm hurt. Thank you for publishing this.
Love you both
Dixie
Is it your birthday?
Well, happy birthday you great handsome man you! Hugs and a kiss on the cheek!!!!!!
The coffin of Royal Military Policeman Warrant Officer Colin Wall is carried from a transport plane by his regimental collegues at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Wall, along with two other Royal Military Police officers, died following an attack on the civilian vehicles they were travelling in, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on August 23, 2003.
The coffin of Lieutenant Andrew Wilson, of 849 Squadron Royal Navy, who died on March 22, 2003 when two Royal Navy Sea King Mark 7 helicopters collided over the Gulf, is carried from a Boeing C-17 aircraft at RAF (Royal Air Force) Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, Britain, April 8, 2003.
The body of British Trooper David Clarke arrives at RAF (Royal Air Force) Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, Britain, April 15, 2003. Trooper Clarke, 19, from Littleworth, Staffordshire, was one of two soldiers from the Queen's Royal Lancers who were killed March 25, 2003
The coffin of Lieutenant Antony King, of 849 Squadron Royal Navy, who died on March 22, 2003
I found this on your page and liked it so much I had to put it here where everyone could see it.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8a NIV)
Wow. That soldier's family was given a gift worth more than all the gold in the world. What a wonderful tribute to an American hero.
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