Vets Urged to Show Their Medals, Mettle(Happy Veterans Day, Vets!)

The Washington Times ^ | November 11, 2007 | Jennifer Harper

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Happy Veterans Day!

Semper Fi, Kelly

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Ya might want to ping your lists!

Happy Veterans Day

Semper Fi,
Kelly

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Wearing mine with pride to our church’s Veteran’s Day service.

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Veterans Pride



Calling on America's veterans to wear their military medals this Veterans Day, November 11, 2007. Wearing their medals will demonstrate the deep pride our veterans have in their military service and bring Veterans Day home to all American citizens.

Veterans, wear your pride on your left side this Veterans Day! Let America know who you are and what you did for freedom.

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Pull Out the Pin Ping!

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♥!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

MOF Ping!

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[SandRat]

Was in full Class A uniform yesterday for the Parade and Ceremony. My Daily Wear Cover lets all know every day.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[4yearlurker]

Here in Monessen PA.,I looked out my kitchen door this morning and thought I was looking at a ghost! There is a soldier dressed in WWll combat uniform,with bloused boots,canteen and rifle slung over his shoulder standing in the middle of the intersection. He is collecting money for the WWll monument. Lots of cars are stopping and donating. I’m going to walk over there and put a few bucks in his tin cup.

God bless out Vets!!

[JoeSixPack1]

[4yearlurker]

Crap...out=our.

[itsLUCKY2B]

What do I see when I stop to buy a poppy from an old man?
The dogs of war were howling while battles raged in foreign lands far across the sea from America. But that meant nothing to a 19 year old kid from Red Hook, Brooklyn. That young man was my Dad. Like so many others in the USA, that was a European war. People read about those events in the newspapers or heard news reports on the radio. But it wasn’t Our war. But one calm December Sunday morning all was quiet, when a sneak attack changed all that on the Date that will Live in Infamy. Japanese treachery awakened a sleeping giant...a giant more ferocious than they could ever imagine. Now they forced Us into war to keep America free. We had to build an army fast to combat oppression and tyranny. Who would stand up and be counted? Well, my Dad was there with thousands and thousands of other American kids. They lined up to put their lives in harms way. These weren’t sunshine Patriots who hid from the enemy. They faced the enemy of righteousness, eyeball to eyeball all over the world. These are those men I see. These are the boys of Pointe duHoc, Guadalcanal and Sicily, of Bougainville and Kaserine and the beaches of Normandy from the Battle of the Atlantic to the Battle of the Coral Sea. They fought and many, many died, because our Nation called. These are those men, that I see. Where are those dashing young GIs who paid dearly for victory? They’re all around us, they are our Fathers, Brothers, and Uncles. These are those men I see. We should learn well the terrible lesson they taught us, that Freedom Isn’t Free. They learned that lesson the hard way. These are those men I see. They are selling those red poppies. Each day we enjoy the fruits of their labor, with peace and prosperity in the land of the free... America. Give thanks to God, and then who else? Thank these men you see. I miss you every day Dad... Thank you. Rest in peace.

[SandRat]

Remember Learning this Poem in School? I sure hope so. We had to memorize it and its meaning. I Wish Children had today did.

In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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Thank you Vets. We appreciate your untold sacrifices.

[Daffynition]

Nice to see Google made an effort.

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Generations Of Valor

Thank You Veterans For Preserving Our Freedoms