[ladtx]

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We had a very small and quiet one, only our youngest was able to make it. Mrs ladtx cooked the smallest turkey we've had in years only 8 lbs. Love those bourbon sweet potatoes. In and out quickly today, reallllllllly busy here.

In memory of my fellow Vietnam helicopter pilots who were killed in that war the following were lost on DEC 1. God bless them all.

1969 CPT Jack Camp (USAR) -- HHC, 2 BDE, 1 CAV, Age 22, Married, Tolar, Texas
1970 CW2 Kenneth E. Crayne (USAR) -- 7/15 ART, Age 37, Married, Omaha, Nebraska
1970 WO1 Stephen C. Sellett (USAR) -- 7/15 ART, Age 23, Single, Sterling, Illinois

A tribute to CPT Camp from a felleow veteran and friend. Taken from The Wall website.
FELLOW VETERAN AND FRIEND Jack was a fellow veteran,friend and fellow graduate of the class of '65 from Tolar. I knew Jack only a short time and can honestly say that he was the nicest person I have ever known. He was nice to everyone all the time. Any parent would be proud to have a son as kind and thoughtful as Jack. I had only been back from Nam a short time when I heard about his death and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Why do the good have to die young? God rest your soul and we will meet again someday in Heaven. Saturday, February 27, 1999

IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLADE

SCOUTS OUT!

[JustAmy]

Thank you for helping us remember these three young men.

May God Bless them while he blesses and comforts their families.

[JustAmy]

A Nation's Strength

What makes a nation's pillars high
And it's foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?

It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.

Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.

And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;
But God has struck its luster down
In ashes at his feet.

Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly...
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.

...Ralph Waldo Emerson

[LadyX]

A reminder of the daily perils for our military abroad,
keeping the enemy at bay and away from our turf...

Paying respect
Casings fly as the honor guard chambers
another round for the ceremonial firing of volleys
during the memorial for Staff Sgt. Ermest
Bucklew at Soldiers' Memorial Chapel at Fort
Carson, Colo., on Nov. 25. Bucklew was killed
when a CH-47 helicopter he was riding in
crashed in Iraq.

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Rest well, American Warrior, knowing our profound gratitude...