"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here.
We did all that could be done."
~ Ronald Reagan
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Our Freedom isn't Free...
Semper Fidelis
Once a Marine - Always a Marine
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The Great Smoky Mountains
"We are mountain people.
We are a boorish set, they tell us-
Hard-bitten, coarse of feature and speech,
Shallow and brawling as the mountain streams,
With morale friable as our sandstone.
All my life I have wanted to tell them:
That we are mountain people,
That mountain streams have pools of deep quietness,
And that beneath the sandstone of our hills
There is granite."
~ Leonard Tate
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"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
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Caution: This seemingly mild-mannered FReeper may be prone to sudden and violent mood swings.
(Don't say I didn't warn you.) :)
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"He has lost his left arm; but I have lost my right arm." — General Robert E. Lee.
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