Veterans Day-Please join us to send a message to our Veterans! Freeper Canteen-Friday Nov.11,2005

Canteen players | American Patriots and allies

[Radix]

Yikes, close one.

[EsmeraldaA]

Happy Veterans Day!

[granite]

It is an honor. Thank You.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks for the beautiful Post Mr. Nerks. Happy Veterans day!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks GB. YOu rock. I hope all is well over there!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

That is a beautiful post and sentiment. I hope everyone reads your post.

[Radix]

Diva...

You have done a very nice job with this special Canteen opening. I'll be studying it and the links for sure.

Thanks.

[Fred Nerks]

I am happy to say we still carry on the tradition in Australia.

[StarCMC]

 

 

Arlington
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I never thought that this is where I'd settle down,
I thought I'd die an old man back in my hometown,
They gave me this plot of land, me and some other men, for a job well done.
There's a big white house sits on a hill just up the road,
the man inside he cried the day they brought me home,
they folded up a flag and told my mom and dad, we're proud of your son

Chorus:
And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property,
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company,
I'm thankful for those things I've done,
I can rest in peace, I'm one of the chosen ones,
I made it to Arlington

I remember daddy brought me here when I was eight,
we searched all day to find out where my granddad lay,
and when we finally found that cross,
he said, "Son this is what it cost to keep us free"
Now here I am,
a thousand stones away from him,
he recognized me on the first day I came in,
and it gave me a chill when he clicked his heels, and saluted me.

(Repeat Chorus)

And every time I hear twenty-one guns,
I know they brought another hero home to us.

We're thankful for those thankful for the things we've done,
we can rest in peace, 'cause we are the chosen ones,
we made it to Arlington,
yea dust to dust,
don't cry for us,
we made it to Arlington.
 

 

 

 

[luvie]

We take this time to salute our Vets who through the history of our country have fought and died for all of us. THANK YOU!!!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks for the post! In my house we are going to make poppies out of hearts and write "we love you" on them and take them to the VA with some treats.

[StarCMC]

AWESOME thread Diva - and a great reminder to thank the ones who have ensured my freedom.

[kstewskis]

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thank you and Thank you again. :] Happy Veterans day! Hugs!

[Soaring Feather]

Beautiful piece, Tomkow!! Thank You for your service.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Hugs!

[GodBlessUSA]

God Bless You cmotormac44!
My Thanks to You Sir, for Your Sacrifice for Service in WWII. To All our Soldiers, Who Serve to Protect and Defend Freedom. You are all heroes, we are so truly blessed by you all.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks Colonel- that is why I think you are so smart.. you always know how to say nice things to me.. (hehe) :] Hugs!

[tomkow6]

 WHAT IS A VET?

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 alloy 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 died
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.

To ALL my Brothers & Sisters:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE &

GOD BLESS YOU!


 

[Army Air Corps]

That is a smashing idea!