[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I love the FoxNews coverage, reminding America that more than 80 Americans and 30 Brits have made the supreme sacrifice. Thank you, SG, and your hubby!

This IS the Henry V speech made real...all those who lie abed...(France, Russia, UN...) will count their manhood cheap, from this day forward.

[aloysius89]

Amen sister.
Did you hear David Chater about 5 minutes ago
"... the day freedom arrived with the U.S. Marines..."

[Lauratealeaf]

Great post! I wake up to the troops being in the center of Baghdad and Iraqis putting a rope around Saddam's statue. Is this the beginning of the Wake for the Democrats? At least David Chater has come to the party.

[Socratic]

Saint Crispin's Day Speech
from Henry V by William Shakespeare

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This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.