My hat is off to Jehu for bringing this to the forefront.
God Bless the Armed Forces.
Psalm 23 Memorial Day Tribute
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Uh, oh. This is blatant clinging to G-d and guns….
lol
Very touching, and it shows the humanity that is very real while they are charged with defending us.
That picture is wowsome. Where can I get a copy?
A Tribute
I stood and fell at Breeds Hill, I froze and hungered at Valley Forge.
They called me a swamp rat and I fought the Barbary pirates.
Manassas, Gettysburg and Andersonville… my enemy was my brother.
“Remember the Maine!” so up San Juan I rode.
Poppies grow, while in repose I lay on Flanders Fields.
Utah and Omaha, there could be no worse hell on earth until I carried a little one out of Block 66.
Chosen Frozen means something to me, does it to you?
Who am I? You don’t know me the inscription says, “… Known But To God.”
The Perfume River Smelled only of death to me, so much for the ‘mysteries of the Orient’.
The Gulf, the Sandbox, the ‘Ghan and ten thousand places more.
Someday other places will have names too, as long as my love endures.
Me and one of my works of art…from Karmah, Iraq
And of course I made a video too, with one of the better songs written, I do need to update it with photos from Hiroshima, Bataan, Corregidor, the DMZ as well…but for my brothers and sisters!
Charleston was in ruins.
The peninsula was nearly deserted, the fine houses empty, the streets littered with the debris of fighting and the ash of fires that had burned out weeks before. The Southern gentility was long gone, their cause lost.
In the weeks after the Civil War ended, it was, some said, “a city of the dead.”
On a Monday morning that spring, nearly 10,000 former slaves marched onto the grounds of the old Washington Race Course, where wealthy Charleston planters and socialites had gathered in old times. During the final year of the war, the track had been turned into a prison camp. Hundreds of Union soldiers died there.
For two weeks in April, former slaves had worked to bury the soldiers. Now they would give them a proper funeral.
The procession began at 9 a.m. as 2,800 black school children marched by their graves, softly singing “John Brown’s Body.”
Soon, their voices would give way to the sermons of preachers, then prayer and — later — picnics. It was May 1, 1865, but they called it Decoration Day.
On that day, former Charleston slaves started a tradition that would come to be known as Memorial Day.
History discovered
My most memorable Memorial Day was in 1986. I took the train to DC to go to a family wedding. On Monday morning, before I took the train back, I wanted to go to the Mall and see the Vietnam Memorial. I had been to the Mall many times in childhood, but I had never seen the Memorial in person. Now I am lucky enough to not know any person on the Wall, as my family was either too old or too young for Vietnam, but I still wanted to pay my respects on Memorial Day, especially since I was already in the DC area.
Unbeknownst to be, that Monday Pres. Ronald Reagan was dedicating additional names to be inscribed on the Wall. (IIRC, they were mostly aircrew who died out of Theater, like in landings, etc.) I didn’t stay around for the ceremony as I had a train to catch, but the emotions were sure stirred that day as I walked around the milling crowd, seeing all the men and women there wearing the pieces of their uniforms that still fit, though all wore their medals. (So many had multiple Purple Hearts.) It was unlike a typical visit (which I’ve made since then). There was friendly banter all over the place (You were in the – fill in the blank – division? Get outta here!), yet a certain diginified solemnity permeated the area; old friends were coming home. To this day, I’m glad I decided to see the Wall that Memorial Day.
Test… and have a great Memorial Day. Lovely tribute video for our fallen military service members, thank you.
re: #6 by bluliner10
Sincerest thanks bluliner10, for your service. Your committment to country is awesome. I pray your body never has to pay for that check you signed when you enlisted.
re: #6 by bluliner10
Great stuff there bluliner, semper fi and thank you.
savage
Thank you. This is a wonderful tribute.
re: #13 by goddessoftheclassroom
Morning Goddess! Glad I did not apply eye make-up this morning. *sniff*
Last night, I watched “Inside 9/11″. It helped me remeber the feelings of that day and those in the aftermath. I cried just as I had then. This video evoked the same emotion. I had to pause before commenting to let my eyes clear. Thanks to the ones who produced it and the one who posted it here for me to see. That feeling makes me realize how lucky we are that we have been somewhat safer in our homeland. I fear, however, that with the decisions made by Obama, we will be experiencing the same feelings as a country. I pray not but I fear so. Thank GOD for those willing to put themselves on the line for those of us whom take them for granted. May GOD keep each and every one cradled safely in His hands.
A great American serving our fallen heroes.
http://xeml.buglesacrossamerica.org/index.xeml
That was glorious and moving. My daughter and son-in-law are in the military. They are two of the most remarkable and loving people I know. God Bless our troops and God Bless you Jehu for finding this.
Oh, when did we have to “sign in.” Nothing like confusing an already very confused person. I bopped my noggin and have a severe concussion and find the easiest things very challenging these days.
18 imtoast
due to nickjackers, we started registration. 300+ registered
re: #18 by imtoast
Hi imtoast!
God bless the american troops.
God bless the cause of freedom.
God bless all those brave american men and women who have travelled many kms to fight in lands they did not know, around people they did not know, who spoke a language they did not know..
Oh Lord Jesus, Creator of all things, we thank You for every single soul You have brought forth from the land of free and home of the brave to fight in our european continent, to remove from us the yoke of evil (Socialist Hitler, communism, and many other evils).
We ask You, Lord, that in this time where these brave soldiers are being attacked by the man who was suposed to lead them, that their arms do not faint, but stand strong. But if their arms faint, we ask You Lord Jesus, that as You prepared men to hold Moses’ arms in the war against the Amalekites, that You prepare men and women from all over the earth to up hold the arms of those who fight for other ppl’s freedom.
Amen
Thanks for the info Lance and Hey! to you Vagabond Trader.
re: #6 by bluliner10
Bluliner10, that was awesome. Who indeed.
re: #9 by RickMZ
That’s a cool story
) I’ve only been to the Wall one time, with my seventh grade class. Even then I was in awe. I really need to take my kids.
— President Ronald Reagan, May, 1987