I don't normally respond to this kind of stuff but i couldn't help my self.
What this is very true. Thank you for sharing this with us. And "THANK YOU"
to all of our veterans. Happy Veteran's Day.
Cindi Grant
Newport,WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Edwards" <ziggy(a)bestonline.net>
To: <INSTJOSE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 5:32 AM
Subject: [INSTJOSE] Fw: [GERMANNA] Veteran's Day Tribute
I don't normally do this to all the lists, but considering, I
think it's
worth any chewing out I get. To all the Vets world wide and the families
of
those not with us. Happy Veteran's day!!!!
GERALD EDWARDS
SFC, U.S. ARMY
Retired
----- Original Message -----
From: James Albin <JEAlbin(a)compuserve.com>
To: <GERMANNA_COLONIES-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: [GERMANNA] Veteran's Day Tribute
> I came across this on the internet and thought it would be a good
tribute
> for
> the veterans and those serving their country now. This was copied from
the
> University of Minnesota at Cranston website. May God Bless those
who
> serve now and those who have served in the past and their families.
>
> Jim Albin
> USAF (Ret)
>
>
> Veteran's Day
> Thursday, November 11, 1999
>
>
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> -----
>
> What is a Veteran?
>
> Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a
jagged
> scar,
> a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a
pin
> holding
> a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another
sort
> of inner
> steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in
> parades, however,
> the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.
> You can't tell a vet just by looking.
>
> What is a vet?
>
> He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating
two
>
> gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out
of
> fuel.
>
> He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose
> overgrown
> frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by
> four hours
> of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
>
> She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep
> sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
>
> He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't
> come back AT ALL.
>
> He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has
> saved
> countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members
> into
> Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
>
> He is the parade - riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals
> with a
> prosthetic hand.
>
> He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass
him
> by.
>
> He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose
> presence
> at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of
all
> the
> anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the
battlefield
>
> or in the ocean's sunless deep.
>
> He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and
> aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who
> wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the
> nightmares come.
>
> He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who
> offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his
> country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to
> sacrifice theirs.
>
> He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is
> nothing
> more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest,
greatest
> nation ever known.
>
> So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just
> lean
> over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases
it
> will
> mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
> Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".
>
> "It is the soldier, not the reporter,
> Who has given us freedom of the press.
> It is the soldier, not the poet,
> Who has given us freedom of speech.
> It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
> Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
> It is the soldier,
> Who salutes the flag,
> Who serves beneath the flag,
> And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
> Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
>
> Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
>
>
>
>
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