We thank God for you and all those wonderful parents and families of our service men and women. This is honor, morals, values, fidelity, loyalty... and in the secular humanism of today they can't understand, it sounds too much like religion...but they will. I will pray that you continue the work you have begun. I truly believe by this stand you have saved a lot of our soldiers lives. I am here at your disposal should you need me...I am also sure everyone else feels the same.
We followed all of you there with our hearts, we prayed mightily, made every stop with you, drank every thankful sip of cold water provided and stood in the Chow Line waiting for that BBQ.
We stayed up really late, as if we were all grown-up and the parents got to go out for a change.
Still we waited... To the MSM, it would seem we didn't exist, but we knew this would happen.
One by one, by streaming talk radio from there, Philly and elsewhere... we heard. We celebrated as a family when the transcribed phone messages and first photos started to roll in. We exhaled after waiting so long.
We picked ourselves up, kicked the dust from our feet and went full metal to the press by phone and email.
A lot of young republicans and converts saw the pictures (the horsemen, flags in hand, ten commandments, the MOAFlags, families, picnics and loving messages)....and for the first time said "I just realized what America means".
Vets who thought about how they were treated when they got back decided at the last minute to stand up and make the trek, exclaiming "Never again"... a lot of them with medical problems.
We thank you for giving our lives even more meaning and letting the troops know we love them and that their country has not abandoned them. We know we must do more...and we will, thanks to you.
My 12 year old who helped me in the "welcome" tent said something very similar as we were leaving Saturday evening. Hers went "I understand patriotism now better than ever".
And basil, she also talked about the wise words you said to her. Thank you.
I think involving my three girls has taught them more than I ever could in simple words thanks to all who worked so hard in putting this together and those who were able to be there. There was such a feeling there.