FReeper Canteen ~ Memorial Day 2008 ~ 26 May 08

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World | StarCMC and GI Joe

[Tamar1973]

Kimchi is becoming American. They sell bulgogi and kalbi at Costco now, too! : )

[bannie]

I shouldn't have posted a picture of ME!!

[luvie]

Poem: A Patriotic Creed
by Edgar Guest

To serve my country day by day
At any humble post I may;
To honor and respect her flag,
To live the traits of which I brag;
To be American in deed
As well as in my printed creed.

To stand for truth and honest toil,
To till my little patch of soil,
And keep in mind the debt I owe
To them who died that I might know
My country, prosperous and free,
And passed this heritage to me.

I always must in trouble's hour
Be guided by the men in power;
For God and country I must live,
My best for God and country give;
No act of mine that men may scan
Must shame the name American.

To do my best and play my part,
American in mind and heart;
To serve the flag and bravely stand
To guard the glory of my land;
To be American in deed:
God grant me strength to keep this creed!

God bless our Vets
Past, Present and Future!
....AND HONOR THE FALLEN!

[Tamar1973]

Ginger Ale (aka Luv w) you do look quite dressy tonight! LOL!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*sigh*
Neither.
I won’t be there.
I have to be at work earlier tomorrow, and I just can’t make it work out to be in the parade.

[mylife]

Thats a Proud family!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Aren’t you Ginger Ale?
LOL

[bannie]

He has such great poems

Memorial Day
Edgar Guest

The finest tribute we can pay
Unto our hero dead to-day,
Is not a rose wreath, white and red,
In memory of the blood they shed;
It is to stand beside each mound,
Each couch of consecrated ground,
And pledge ourselves as warriors true
Unto the work they died to do.

Into God’s valleys where they lie
At rest, beneath the open sky,
Triumphant now o’er every foe,
As living tributes let us go.
No wreath of rose or immortelles
Or spoken word or tolling bells
Will do to-day, unless we give
Our pledge that liberty shall live.

Our hearts must be the roses red
We place above our hero dead;
To-day beside their graves we must
Renew allegiance to their trust;
Must bare our heads and humbly say
We hold the Flag as dear as they,
And stand, as once they stood, to die
To keep the Stars and Stripes on high.

The finest tribute we can pay
Unto our hero dead to-day
Is not of speech or roses red,
But living, throbbing hearts instead,
That shall renew the pledge they sealed
With death upon the battlefield:
That freedom’s flag shall bear no stain
And free men wear no tyrant’s chain.

[mylife]

The Audie Murphy museum is here in Greenville Tx.

He is a native Son.

[SandRat]

FR is totally weirded out tonight. I click on a comment link and the wrong number appears, hit F5 and fewer responses appear, click to reply and 2/3s of the time I’m told the thread doesn’t exist. All this was in the Canteen.

[Eaker]

I miss your Dad.

[Just Lori]

That’s a keeper!

[Admin Moderator]

Server cache glitch again. John knows about it. Thanks.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Yeah, it’s acting really strange..
Awhile ago, I couldn’t read all the posts, nor respond..
Really bizarre!

[bannie]

I told ya'...I shouldn't have posted that picture!

(I'm getting the same sort of messages.)

[bannie]

I'd like to rudely wave that poem in a few liberal faces.

[mylife]

Seems better now

[bannie]

It’s really the ChiCom’s.

Or Herself, the Vile and Putrid.

They love to mess with the truth.

[philly-d-kidder]

Happy memorial Day Kathy.. I hope all is well!

[bannie]

I think Jim had snipers on the buildings around here, and the picked ‘em off.