Posted on 11/07/2001 10:05:32 PM PST by SSgt Mike
This is something I wrote a week or so ago and posted in my office along with the accompaning Gif.
Hope you like it.
It sure made me feel better after I wrote it.
As I walked among the graves at Hamm cemetary in Luxembourg where many of the Americans who died during the Battle of the Bulge are buried, I couldn't help but wonder whether or not the scarifice was worth the price they paid.
Then I thought about the millions of unmarked graves in which the victims of the fascist governments lie and immediately knew the answer.
Our heroes of previous generations, whether or not they knew it, were fighting for those unknown and unspoken-for victims. They fought either to free them or to avenge them.
Our soldiers' cause was noble and just. They knew they were fighting the fascist Nazi government. However, what they did not know at the time was that they were fighting to free the world from an evil unlike any known before.
Today, we are in a fight very much like that which was fought by our grandfathers.
Our enemies want to impose a way of life upon the world that is the antithesis of what we as a nation believe in and for what all who have served and died for this country have sacrificed so much for.
Our enemies today do not believe in the freedoms that our country is based upon. As a matter of fact those freedoms that make us a nation are part of the reason our enemies hate us so much.
As a nation of free people, we cannot forget the sacrifices of each and every American who has served this country, both home and abroad. Our military men and women and our public servants also have sacrificed much. Many have given all their tomorrows for our todays.
We have the freedom to go about our daily lives thanks to the sacrifices of many individuals, both past and present.
Is it worth the fight?
Hell Yes!!!!!!
SSgt Mike Reynolds.
I have spent the past four days in some very interesting meetings. Some good stuff coming down the pike for those wearing uniforms of all types. There were some folks attending that were out in left field, but for the most part everyone seems to have their heads screwed on right.
Let's not let our communities forget what we are celebrating this weekend. Get to those local parades and ceremonies and wave that flag for all it's worth!
Air Force guys always were a little different!
Stay well - stay safe - satay armed - Yorktown
Upon seeing that pic I couldn't help but think of the scene from Dr Strangelove where Slim Pickens was riding the nuke down.
"Air Force guys always were a little different!"
We still are : )
Patton sure had a way with words and probably would have never stood a chance in today's "politicaly correct" society.
All I can say is "Thank God for Georgie Patton"!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being there for the servicemembers when that was a very unpopular position to take.
You made a difference.
Everything I have today was given to me through the sacrifices of those who have served this nation. You too served in your own way and I can't thank you enough.
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