Posted on 05/23/2003 5:02:23 PM PDT by carlo3b
Thank-you for for the coffee, (((((((((((carlo))))))))). The pot was dry, it's contents long since drunk, by the time I got up (and it was only 7:00! .45MAN's usual hour of waking is 3:00, bless his heart!)
Thank-you also for your from-the-heart tribute to all of the men and women who served and sacrificed for our freedom. We must never take these brave souls for granted. I remember them daily in my morning prayers and I have "adopted" a specific military person to pray for from the Presidential Prayer Team website.
When you have a chnce, please stop by Today's Finest Thread where I have remembered a very special soldier from the Vietnam war.
Hugs and smoochies (((((((((Carlo))))))))). You wear your emotions on your sleeve and that's what endears me to you. We share an ethnic background so I know where your passion comes from. Be blessed!
Thanks for the tip, off to Blockbuster.. enjoy today my friend, we earned it.. LOL
I think your uncle would be proud to have known you my dear friend.. I know that we are...
Good Morning, Sweetie!! (((Huggg)))
Thank YOU for YOUR service!!! Mine was inconsequential compared with what others have done. I fought in no battles nor risked my life, I merely put in my time.
If you haven't yet read Flags Of Our Fathers, I urge you to get a copy and read it. You'll also feel like you know these 6 young men who raised the flag.
I bought the DVD a couple of weeks ago and have watched it almost every day since. It is a captivating tale of true bravery and heroism!
Being of Scottish heritage, the song that really stirred my blood and held me spellbound was Sgt. McKenzie. It's haunting...
Joseph Kilna McKenzie - Sgt. McKenzieOriginal Scottish Version
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaunWhen they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraidThoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tearsAins a year say a prayer faur me
Close yir een an remember meNair mair shall a see the sun
For a fell tae a Germans gunLay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaunLay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaunWhaur afore monie mair huv gaun
English Translation
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have goneWhen they come I will stand my ground
Stand my ground I'll not be afraidThoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tearsOnce a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember meNever more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gunLay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have goneLay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have goneWhere before many more have gone
In memory of Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie
Seaforth Highlanders
Who along with many others gave up his life
So that we can live free
We will remember them
And as Col. An declares in that post-combat scene, except for killing 58,200 Americans and wounding -- physically and emotionally -- scores of thousands of others and a million or so Vietnamese, IT CHANGED NOTHING!!
Thank you LBJ and McNamara!!
And ditto on the hypnotic impact this film has had on some of us. It will become a classic of the genre.
I think they are in alphabetical order grouped by date of death. Seeing the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial is a very moving experience.
Even on a cloudy and gray day, with rain falling like tears of sorrowful remembrance.
A light from within illuminates the soul with memories of faithful love and fierce pride in the nation which gives us hope and those who sacrificed all to defend and extend that freedom.
God have mercy on the souls of our departed. God hold them in His merciful and tender busom.
TODAY WE ARE REMEMBERING THEM ALL... Thanks Thumper
I'm still bitter, even after all of these years, but that doesn't seem to bother me a bit, and I guess it may not be the Christian way, so be it.. I'll explain it to my maker when the time comes.
What a pity those Bastar@s never paid publicly for their WAR CRIMES, but they will someday...
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.......In Jesus Precious Name, Amen!!!
Isn't that the truth.. including you... :o)
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