[pfflier]

For a Viet Nam Vet this was a welcome home parade. What a day!

"Let any nation know..whether they wish us well or evil..that we will bear any burden...to assure that the light of liberty shines throughout the world."

[Kithlyara]

That is awesome! I wish I had been there. However hokey this sounds, I got all tingly thinking about it :0 )

[ProudEagle]

Thanks for the good news. Now if we can get the elected "leaders" (and I use that term very loosely) in Washington to follow suit we might have something.

[barker]

Great story. I've always gotten goose bumps whenever hearing that song but for some reason the last few months the bumps seem to get bigger and my eyes get mistier. Can't wait for the Royals opening day next Monday.

[Argus]

Defence of Fort McHenry bump!

[ellery]

Reminds me of the end of the How the Grinch Stole Christmas when all the Whos in Whoville, tall and small, sang with the Grinch. Except this is for real...thanks for passing this along:-)

[nimc]

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." ~John F. Kennedy~

This fellow Nam Vet still wells with pride and resolve when this passage is heard. I, at 12 years old recorded KFK's speeches on an ancient reel to reel. At 18 I volunteered for Nam.

Never again had I felt such emotion until GWB's address to Congress on Sept 20th.

Let's Roll

[Bahbah]

Thank you for telling us about this.

[FryingPan101]

From the wife of a Vietnam Vet, thank you for the post. It was short but sharp. I felt like we were there. It must have been great.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...As Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE said over and over again about the Heroism of his men at the Battle of the IA DRANG-1965...

.."Thats just ...OUTSTANDING!!!"

[boris]

O 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:
'Tis 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 free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home 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 a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it 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!

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you pfflier for this.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

See:

'September 11, 2001--Another Day That Will Live in Infamy'

...Thread in the -General Discussion/Off Topic- Forum of the .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. website:

.. www.WeWereSoldiersFILM.com ..

...for after the Attacks of Sept 11th...

...WE ARE ALL SOLDIERS NOW...???

NEVER FORGET