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.
With everything going on I felt that posting this as a thread is appropriate.
Veterans day is coming up and all our heroes past and present could use a kind word.
Sorry the pic is backwards. I still haven't found a server that will let me post pic's like I used to be able to, and I had to "borrow" this wonderful image.
I've been off-line for a while but still check in from time to time when I can get on the 'puter.
Thanks for all the bumps lately.
Let me know what you think of this.
Every Memorial Day during the time I was stationed in Europe I took my family to the cemetary for the ceremony and to visit Gen. Patton and the men and women buried with him there (we would also visit Sandweiller).
We also made it a point to visit Hamm on POW/MIA Recognition Day and Veterans Day.
I tried to visit Bastogne as much a possible and have a web page about a volksmarch that I participated in back in 97 during the McAullife Days celebration.
If you are interested I can try to post the URL.
Thanks for the graphic.
I just couldn't find it anywhere using the usual search engines.
I get nervous whenever I see the field of stars on the right side (or, upside down), especially lately .
Funny thing...I'm currently reading Patton's book "War as I knew It". To the core of his being he understood the fight against evil.
Also...check out a GREAT book on how societies,such as ours, NEEDS to fight wars against evil.
Called "The Soul of Battle". By Victor Davis Hanson.
Great Book.
me
"The secret of victory lies not wholly in knowledge. It lurks invisible in that vitalizing spark,intangible, yet evident as lightning--the warrior soul."
George S. Patton
redrock
Good to see you ... long time no post.
Semper Fi!
Nov. 11th will soon be here. Remember that thread started two years ago regarding "The Wall"? Maybe we should bring it out of mothballs.
5.56mm
This is a GREAT thread !! I love what you wrote and the graphic with it makes it completly perfect !
Thank you soooooooo MUCH !!!!!
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