Posted on 07/04/2006 11:56:54 AM PDT by pickrell
Great post, and quite a spirit-lifter!
Speaking of the self annointed 'Newspaper of Record' ... earlier today I caught a snippet of the 'Laura Ingraham' show on the car radio. She read an e-mail from a young lieutenant sent to the editors of the NYSlimes. It addressed the issue of their releasing harmful information concerning the governments tracking terrorist funding around the world. The lieutenant's e-mail was well written stating that he sees daily what this funding buys terrorists ... the lieutenant is a Harvard law school graduate and was working in a clerkship capacity when called up for duty. He stated categorically that what the NY Times did broke the law and by the time he returns stateside he hopes the key editors have traded their A/C offices for a prison cell where they deserve to be.
This e-mail, to my knowledge, has not been posted here at FR ... if someone can find this e-mail it needs to be posted.
My kids had a grandpa like that. May he rest in peace.
Now THIS is a heart-warmer. Happy Birthday, America!
Those men, who were in the war, the real heroes, did not talk about it.
Only the liars, braggarts, the manipulators, the ones who were 'protected from the true vageries of war', come back and say things like "I was in Vietnam and got Purple a Heart. Did I ever tell you?"
Wonderful! A keeper (or, better yet, a passer-arounder)!
All his life he did good things without ever telling anyone. It was only years later that we heard from his neighbors what kind of man he was to his fellow citizens.
He was tough but fair to his own children. Three of his sons saw active duty in WW II.
Fed and clothed a half a dozen family members during the depression.
This was a man beloved by his grandchildren...and he is missed.
Thank you ever so much Grandpa.
We were truly blessed.
My hubby born late to this man served during Viet Nam, not in country but here in the states, and our son served four years during X42 stationed in Germany.
It was all about duty, honor, country.
Exactly, precisely right. That's why we need to try to find some way to turn off their audience. They won't stop, but maybe we can run them out of business, by making their audience understand what enabling means.
Thanks for the reply.
I hope you will accept that this is not gratuitous statement, when I say- I didn't write the story about my grandpa, but about yours. Yours, and a hundred, a thousand men like him; men like HuntsvilleTxVeteran, and all of the others since time began, who have ever stood at the edge of a threatened village and resolved that, "You wanna get to these people-you gotta get through me and my buddies here first."
Not in bragadoccio, but just to steel themselves to do that thing. Wherever many of them are now, they are looking down on a new crop of Marines and G.I.s, and their approval is not grudging. But the ones still alive will only spare a nod to those troops. Yet that nod says more than a whole set of encyclopedias, and is more esteemed than solid diamond. Can't be bought for any price- gotta be earned.
We won't know what they all did- at least I won't. But I watched a whole park full of kids smiling today, waiting for fireworks. On second thought, maybe I do know what they did...
My actual grandpa just ran a gas station and raised 13 kids. Never had any secrets. At least, never had any that he told me about.
Wait a minute- hmmmm....
I read this out loud to my husband...thank you so much for posting.
I can't wait to pass this along to my own grandchildren. What a beautiful story to teach them the real meaning of honor, integrity, morality, ethics....
You made it come alive tonight. Thanks!
Blessings on all the men who kept their secrets.
They were and are the heroes in the eyes of the Lord.
Thanks for the great post.
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