Posted on 03/19/2004 12:51:59 PM PST by TEXOKIE
THREE CHEERS FOR OUR WONDERFUL TROOPS, THEIR ALLIES, AND ALL WHO ARE SERVING IN SUPPORT CAPACITIES IN THE WAR ON TERROR! YOU HAVE GIVEN THIS NATION A YEAR OF VICTORY IN THAT WAR! The honor is yours, but know that we bask in your accomplishments and love you for your steadfast service on this day!
Welcome, everyone to the 10th Troop Prayer Thread! Today is the anniversary of the resumption of hostilities with Iraq, wherein our troops have made military history that shall ring down the centuries.
The troop prayer threads are dedicated to giving our troops, allies, and all who are serving the Holy Cause of Freedom, including (but not limited to) the families and loved ones waiting at home and those who are not in uniform but who are serving in dangerous situations supporting our troops and gathering intelligence spiritual support. We seek together to offer prayer, scriptures, encouraging messages, and other devotions dedicated to this purpose.
We have over the past year gathered together a prayer list of these servants of freedom. You will find it posted below. FReeper amom has been serving as our List Keeper this past year and I wish to thank and commend her for doing such a meticulous job of keeping it updated. She has also been keeping our ping list up to date. If you wish to submit a name for the prayer list or to add or take off a name from the ping list, please let either or both of us know.
For those of us who have somewhat limited computer capacity, or still have phone modems, we request that graphics be limited to pictures of loved ones for whom we are offering prayers, special visuals that seem particularly appropriate, and as much as possible, non-moving graphics. Thank you.
Thank you so much for spiritually supporting our troops, allies, support civilians, and their families.
We are grateful to God that for those who have been injured or taken back Home, He has dispatched angels to their care.
To view the previous prayer threads, use these links:
Troop Prayer Thread 9:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031704/posts
Troop Prayer Thread 8:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994696/posts?page=451,50
Troop Prayer Thread 7:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/973786/posts
Troop Prayer Thread 6:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/917197/posts?page=301,50
Troop Prayer Thread 5:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898097/posts
Troop Prayer Thread 4:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879044/posts
Troop Prayer Thread 3:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873600/posts?page=151,50
Troop Prayer Thread 2:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/870136/posts
Troop Prayer Thread 1:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/863153/posts
For those who wish to pay their respects and honor our Fallen Heroes, please visit this thread:
Names,Stories, and Pictures of Fallen Heroes of Operation Iraqi Freedom
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872330/posts?q=1&&page=601
Dear Lord,
Lest I continue
My complacent way
Help me remember
Somewhere out there
A man died for me today
--As long as there be war
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?"
Taken from the book, "A Man Called Intrepid" by William Stevenson about William Stephenson, the head of British intelligence services prior to and during WWII. He wrote this at the very beginnings of the Battle of Britain and shared it with Eleanor Roosevelt.
STAR SPANGELED BANNER
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
FRANCES SCOTT KEY
AMERICA, WE LOVE YOU!
AMERICA, WE LOVE YOU!
AMERICA, WE LOVE YOU!
AND OUR LOVE IS GREAT ENOUGH TO HOLD YOU ETERNALLY VICTORIOUS IN THE LIGHT!
PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!!
In preparation for Memorial Day, put on your hiking boots, gather up a couple bouquets, place a fresh hankie in your pocket and march over to redrock's report of a conversation he had with a one-legged WWII veteran.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1141564/posts?page=19
Praying for our Veterans, and their fallen friends, and for forgiveness - for not being there to welcome them home years ago.
Thanks for the field trip, TEX.
We will NEVER forget.
Thanks for the ping!
Post #579, wonder why this gif isn't working??
redrock's a great patriot, and I am enjoying his Memorial Day threads very much.
Through my tears.
Thanks for the ping to a great thread, TEXOKIE!
PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!
Join the men from Iraq whose hands were surgically removed by Saddam Hussein. They have been in the US for medical procedures to replace the missing limbs with modern prosthetics. One of their stops was to honor the soldiers serving to liberate Iraq at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Be sure to have a couple of Kleenex. It is a surprisingly moving journey.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143393/posts
Bump!
Oppressed victims freed by our troops know our troops are liberators.
I think you'll like this one, TEX...a good companion to the "Prayer for Complacency":
Thanks for the ping!
That was wonderful TEXOKIE, I saved the pictures. This should be widely publicised.
Please put on your hiking boots and remember back to half a century ago to the days when our soldiers liberated Europe from the Hell of Nazi Germany. Let us all join in her thanks to the men and women who pay for our freedoms and way of life in their blood sweat and tears.
"I want to thank you for my existence. I want to thank you for your sacrifices, and for your courage, because without your heroism, this world would indeed be a different place. Were it not for the brave soldiers who liberated my father from Dachau, and my mother and her family from the Nazi slaveholders, I would not be here today. Nor would millions of others, all of whom remain indebted to you. ...."
~snip~
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003307
I did it again! Let's do this again with the ping list!
In her post 590, Ragtime Cowgirl brought our attention to an article found on the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Barbara Makuch has written a thank you note to our men and women under arms.
Please put on your hiking boots and remember back to half a century ago to the days when our soldiers liberated Europe from the Hell of Nazi Germany. Let us all join in her thanks to the men and women who pay for our freedoms and way of life in their blood sweat and tears.
"I want to thank you for my existence. I want to thank you for your sacrifices, and for your courage, because without your heroism, this world would indeed be a different place. Were it not for the brave soldiers who liberated my father from Dachau, and my mother and her family from the Nazi slaveholders, I would not be here today. Nor would millions of others, all of whom remain indebted to you. ...."
~snip~
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003307
Thanks for the ping!
*BLUSH*
Now we got that done....how 'bout the link??? :-)
Please go here to view the Makuch thank you note to our soldiers:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003307
Having a tough day TEXOKIE??? LOL :)
LOL! I didnt think so, but I'm reassessing that now.... :-)
It isn't new, but it is timeless.
On days when our troops are understandably angry, on behalf of their fallen friends, at the actions of a few enemies - at home and abroad - this letter stands as a reminder that our troops are liberators, and the oppressed will remember who fought for their freedom - as do ALOHA RONNIE's Vietnamese-Americans, now fighting communism from their community in California, with the help of Ronnie, and other's who fought to save them in another war.
Prayer bump for our beloved troops and Veterans, and prayer warriors - and prayer warrior leaders. *g*
PRAYER FOR PEACE, MEMORIAL DAY, 2004
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
"For more than two centuries, Americans have been called to defend the founding ideals of our democracy. On Memorial Day, a grateful Nation remembers the proud patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of liberty's blessings.
From the opening battles of the American Revolution through the turmoil of the Civil War, to World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, to the Persian Gulf and today's operations in the war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world, the members of our military have built a tradition of honorable and faithful service. As we observe Memorial Day, we remember the more than one million Americans who have died to preserve our freedom, the more than 140,000 citizens who were prisoners of war, and all those who were declared missing in action. We also honor our veterans for their dedication to America and their sacrifice...."
~~snip~~
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143383/posts
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