Crawford, Texas Bump
Posted on 09/25/2005 6:25:27 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
Edited on 09/25/2005 9:24:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I am heading down to the Rally site now, to help with setting up - which began at 5am today. I didn't know if someone would post a live thread later. My apologies if I have stepped on any toes.
EAGLES UP !!
Link to C-SPAN 1
Rally to Honor Military Families
Honoring all military familys now!
I have heard of him....but never heard him.
Is he syndicated???
Current speaker from AZ, Mike ?, who lost his brother in Iraq, came up to me in Crawford, saw my sign, and thanked me for my service in Vietnam. I was touched, very moved.
This man is speaking some powerful truth
I think he should be .. I like DomG
He's out of Philly and sometimes fills in for other syndicated shows nationwide
C-span will probably replay this tonight...be sure and check!
Well I can't figure out why Noonan is on that picture either.
Leni
I can't type. That mom has moved me to tears. One son dead overseas, another just joined and another wants her to sign a waive so he can sign up the minute he graduates from high school and she's going to do it. Godspeed to her fine young men.
bttt! Break a leg!
Don't forget Tommy Franks.
chuck larson on the left Mike? who lost his brother in Iraq on the right
Oh, no....Mrs. Kesterson is getting heckled, right after asking for strength to get through her speech...
You go, Mrs. Kesterson....you are doing terrific!!!
I see I'm not alone in that.
The Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio
March 31, 1863
LET US LOVE OUR FLAG.
As I sat by the bed of a sick soldier, I saw on his arm what appeared to me to be our national flag.
"You have the American flag on your arm?" I said to him, inquiringly.
"Yes, ma'am," he replied, and began to pull up his shirt sleeve that I might see it more distinctly. "That was put in when I was nine years old; I fainted several times while it was being done, but I would have it there."
I looked at his arm. There was the Goddess of Liberty, bearing in her hand our Star Spangled Banner. The red stripes had been put on in vermillion.
"That is a mark the rebels would not like," I remarked to him.
"I always supposed if I should be taken prisoner I should be murdered, because of this mark, but I was determined to fight for the flag that protected me. It protected me when I came to this country seven years old, and under it I have had my living ever since. I want to die under its folds."
"You die for your country just as truly as if you died on the battlefield, and I thank you for what you have done for us," I said to the poor fellow who was suffering from heart disease and dropsy, and who is liable every moment to be taken from this fighting world.
"Do you ever regret that you volunteered? "
"Never. I have done what I could, and am willing to die in this way."
The young Irishman seemed to have a true attachment to the flag of his adopted country. He has given his life for it. How is it with ourselves? Do we really love it and prize it as we should? Is it the symbol of progress, of political and religious freedom? We should cherish it as we cherish God's best gifts to us, and we should be willing if need be, to die for it. We must teach our children to love it, to consider its safety superior to their own, and to be willing to make any sacrifice which it requires. We must pray for it and teach our children to pray for it. Let us not be too much tried by the self denials and privations that war is bringing upon us. Let us bear it nobly and uncomplainingly with hearts full of steadfast faith and trust in God, and let us grow strong in patriotism as were our grandmothers before us. They left us a precious legacy. Shall we leave one of less value to our children?
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