THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE &
GOD BLESS YOU!
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Thank You!!
And though it will never, never be enough...I wish to pass on a special "Thank You" of my own to all our Vets, past, present, and future!!
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!
Excellent!
Thank you Tom - that's a tear jerker for sure.
Tomkow rack that take
Well report off BBC wire report that King Abdullah of JOrdan is vowing to bring the terrorists to justice
And another report off BBC wire that Syria Prez is claim he cooperate with UN investigation to a point
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Thank You!!
And though it will never, never be enough...I wish to pass on a special "Thank You" of my own to all our Vets, past, present, and future!!