How Did YOU Sleep Last Night?? ~Vanity

[Hi Heels]

I received this fairly anonymously from a church member and have no email for the author, sorry! Thank you for your kind thoughts, however. I'm sure the men know and appreciate them.

[Christian4Bush]

Though I'm sure that our servicewomen appreciate the insertion into the Orwell quotation, quotations tend to work best when directly quoted rather than paraphrased. In my opinion, anyway.

Very well.

[Smartass]

THE WALL

I came upon her crying at The Wall
She stumbled like she might be bout to fall
I held my arms out, took her by the hand
I said "Hello, there, can I help you, M'am?"

She softly smiled and said
"Thank you very much."
And I felt the desperation in her touch
"My son is up there somewhere, proud and tall
But I cannot read the names upon The Wall."

Well, she whispered out his name
And told me when it was he died
Then I searched along the wall
Till I finally found the one she described

Then I placed her trembling hands
In the letters that were etched in stone
she said "Momma's here, Son
Let me take you home."

There are walls to keep us out and keep us in
Like the wall they built between us in Berlin
There are walls of hate that never seem to end
But this Wall of Love has made us one again
I came upon her crying--at The Wall

Tom Cordell ©1988

 

[ken5050]

They also slept alone, without their loved ones back home....

[reagan_fanatic]

Thank You very much for this post. Kinda puts lifes little aggravations in perspective, now doesn't it?

Heavenly Father, watch over our brave men and women as they lay in harm's way, and bring them home safe. Amen.

[ohioWfan]

Can't imagine the kind of nights I'd have if my child was fighting over there.

You don't get much sleep......

Thank You, Lord for our brave, strong troops.

Bless and protect them all at this very hour. Amen!

[Iron Matron]

MAY GOD BLESS YOU BAKER COMPANY!!!!

COPIED, PRINTED, POSTED IN THE OFFICE, WILL TAKE A COPY HOEM, WILL SHARE MORE....

THANK YOU!!!!! OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU ALL.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Those temps are up there with death valley!

This month's highs and lows

All temperature information is from the U.S. National Weather Service. Locations of each day's highs and lows are shown on the large USA TODAY Newspaper Weather Page map.

June 30

• Low: 30 at Shirley Basin, Wyo. as of 8 a.m. ET June 30.

June 29

• High: 114 at Death Valley, Calif.
• Low: 25 at Bellemont, Ariz.
  

June 28

• High: 110 at Casa Grande, Gila Bend, and Picacho Peak, Ariz.
• Low: 33 at Bondurant, Wyoming

June 27

• High: 112 at Parker, Ariz.
• Low: 26 at Bellemont, Ariz.
  

June 26

• High: 109 at Gila Bend, Ariz.
  
• Lows: 30 at Barrow, Alaska (contiguous 48 states: 33 at Mammoth Lakes, Calif.)

[ohioWfan]

Things were quite a bit rougher at the beginning (I remember when Eric wrote with great joy, months into his deployment, that he had eaten his first non-MRE meal), but it still ain't no Gitmo. (MRE's aren't good enough for the killers there......)

[Darksheare]

I'm jealous, those guys in the first pic have a moat...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Death Valley

[Kitty Mittens]

Prayers Arising for Sgt. Dave and Baker Company, and for all our Military. Thank You, Merciful Master, for Hearing our Prayers!

[Republic]

No kidding....I actually ordered a gitmo 't' from the rush limbaugh shop....because I am furious over the politically correct in this nation worrying about how a koran is treated, or if the air conditioning is cool enough at gitmo to a greater degree than how our troops are treated!

I will wear it...and so will my husband.

Our President called upon us to actively support our troops.

I am starting that this week. These pictures ( at top of thread )are treasures that are worth far more than a thousand words.

Please tell Eric how deeply we appreciate him...as a defender of our nation and as a defender of Christ.

[Howlin]

Duly chastised............slinky away. :-)

[hosepipe]

Evidently Tom Cruise...
"CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH"....
as can't many of his contemporaries..

Good movie excellent point.. which is THIS point..
Watchmen on the wall.. for the mediocre and lazy..

[Peach]

God bless each and every one of them.

Whenever I get cranky, I think of what they are going through, and once I get over feeling like a selfish witch, I give thanks to them.

[HeadOn]

(2nd attempt to post...)

"Undead Threadians" - I like that. Keep me on the list.

God Bless all of our troops. Thank you to all of them.

Thanks for the ping.

[defconw]

Thanks for the ping.
Thanks to the Troops!

http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/

[Aeronaut]

Off topic but important.

[tiamat]

I LIKE "Undead Threadians"!

Has some style.

And yeah.

Everything you have here is good and true.

thanks.