Posted on 12/11/2005 7:42:06 PM PST by The Mayor
Good morning every one.
lonestar
Oliver is thankful for the wonderful home you gave him. I'll take good care of him.
Oliver wants you to grieve for him --because it's normal and good for you. Then, when you're ready, he wants you to get a puppy.
Weinie
((((((((Dolly)))))))
I'm so very sorry to read this. I know you'll miss him tremendously, and I also know he now sits at The Master's knee.
DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS POEM
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,transforming the yard to a winter delight. The sparkling lights in the tree I believe, completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, secure and surrounded by love I would sleep. In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, so I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near, but I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear. Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear, and I crept to the door just to see who was near. Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night, a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold. Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear, "Come in this moment, it's freezing out here! Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, you should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift, away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts. To the window that danced with a warm fire's light, then he sighed and he said "It’s really all right, I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."
"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, that separates you from the darkest of times. No one had to ask or beg or implore me, I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.”
“My Gramps died at 'Pearl’ on a day in December," Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers. My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam,'and now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while, but my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.” Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag, the red, white, and blue... an American flag.
"I can live through the cold and the being alone, away from my family, my house and my home. I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another, or lay down my life with my sister and brother.. Who stand at the front against any and all, to ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright, your family is waiting and I'll be all right." "But isn't there something I can do, at the least, Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?" It seems all too little for all that you've done, for being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret, "Just tell us you love us, and never forget. To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone, to stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead, to know you remember we fought and we bled,is payment enough, and with that we will trust, that we mattered to you as you mattered to us.”
WE ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL EVERY NIGHT!
I am so sorry Dolly. God Bless my FRiend.
Hi Free, and Thank you.
I loved lonestar's post to you - weinie will take very good care of Oliver.
Tomorrow's thread with Luv's and Mrs. N's pretty Christmas tables will continue through Wednesday.
You know we are thinking of you and wish there was a way to help get you through the pain and sorrow.
Yes....whatever we can do to ease your pain, Dolly!
This is not something I like to rant about on a thread dedicated to the troops, especially the ones who are daily placing thier lives at risk for our freedoms and our way of life.
They don't deserve the outrage of seeing our Flag being treatede as GARBAGE!
I'll tell you what I mean.
This morning I was on my way to work when I saw in a "torpedo" trash can placed near the entrance to the building I live in, AN AMERICAN FLAG!!!!!!
needless to say I was OUTRAGED at this.
If it were ragged and torn all to pieces (which there's a proper way to dispose of a worn out flag). I would kind of understand.
But this flag was like new!
I don't know nor do I care why it was treated as trash, but I "rescued" it and put it in a planted tree in the lobby of my building and am praying it will still be there when I get back home from work so I can take it upo to my apartment and treat it with the respect it deserves.
After all, there are and have been men and women who have sacrificed all for the country it represents. As well as the ones who are now in Iraq and Afghanistan risking thier lives. I think trashing the flag is the same as trashing the United States.
This is an insult and very offensive to me and I'm sure to our troops and all who hold this country and it's flag dear.
Here is a link to a lot of photos from the WWE tour in Afghanistan. Every year Vince McMahon brings wrestling to the troops for the holidays.
The link opens Tour photos 1. there is a side menu to get to more albums from this year's tour and past tours in Iraq.
I hope you all enjoy the photos of our heroes.
Coolbeans.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks!
I believe this is year #3.
You're welcome.
Oh (((Dolly))) this is such a huge loss for you. Oliver was a special dog and will be missed.
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