Just wanted to say "thank you" to all our RL Veterans, past and present. Cheers! :Fosters_Pack:
Saturday was the Marine Corp's birthday, let me have a HURRAH!
Hurrah! And lots of :Fosters_Pack: and thanks to all the veterans out there :D
Cheers guys! Thanks ;D
There are not enough "thank you"s available to repay our vets for their service. Without you, there would be no freedom. Happy Veterans/Remembrance Day!
And if any WW1 vets are lurking out there (my G-Grandfather was one, may he rest in peace), Happy Armistice Day!
Quote from: Threlin on November 12, 2007, 12:19:11 PM
And if any WW1 vets are lurking out there (my G-Grandfather was one, may he rest in peace), Happy Armistice Day!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/opinion/12rubin.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
/salute
GB
I would also like to express my thanks to you veterans out there. You truely are one of the most important parts of our society and you deserve much more than a day of recognition. Cheers! :Fosters_Pack:
That WWI vet is officially THE man. I had the pleasure of meeting the survivors of the Bataan Death March a couple of times also. Those men exemplify what it means to sacrifice.
Wooo!=)thanks to all the vets O0
Thank you to all our vets :) I know it isn't said often enough!
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest We Forget.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
"Charge of the Light Brigade" all way
My fav is from Ernie Pyle though
The God Damned Infatntry
...I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without...
It's actually a longish article that he wrote and the whole thing rocks.
Lest we forget..
and all the victims of war too- the wounded, ex-prisoners, orphans and widows.
I salute you all!
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag. - Zell Miller (D) Georgia 2004
Cheers to all of our vets :carlton_draught:
One last one from me.
"When you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand; then wink at his girlfriend because she knows shes dating a p*$$y."
Great quotes, JR. I especially like the one by Ernie Pyle.
Bill Mauldin is one of my favorite chroniclers of World War 2. He was a Sgt in the infantry and did cartoons about the front line troops for Stars and Stripes. His two main characters were Willie and Joe; two dog faces on the front line. Here's a link to some of his work.
http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/02/nov02/mauldin/index.html
Personal favorites of mine are #s 5, 7, 13, 32 and the classic # 35.
Here's a note on Mauldin I found online.
General George Patton once summoned Mauldin to his office and threatened to "throw his ass in jail" for "spreading dissent," This after one of Mauldin's cartoons made fun of Patton's demand that all soldiers must be clean-shaven at all times, even in combat. But Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone, because he felt that Mauldin's cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. Mauldin told an interviewer later, "I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes."