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While those of us who will be enjoying the "start of the long summer weekend" (as the TV talking heads like to call it), please take a moment to remember all those Americans who have died in our nation's service and enable us to enjoy the freedoms and lifestyles we do..(just MHO)

 

Regards,

Royce

Edited by cptroyce
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Good call Cappy....

 

today I am nursing an insane stomache flu, but still had time to hit the Air Power Museum at Republic Airport with a Vietnam Vet friend, and decorate my house in Stars and Stripes for the weekend... unfortunately.. other than that... I'm f'n useless. :blink:

 

OvS

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Nice one, Uncle, but you forgot to give credit to the author, James Bradley.

 

Michael T Powers (whose name has been omitted from most of the Internet-circulated versions), transcribed from a videotape he made of a talk given by author James Bradley at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. Bradley, whose father, was one of the six men pictured in the famous photograph of the flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi in February 1945 (and is thus depicted in the monument's) had earlier that year published Flags of Our Fathers, an account of the life stories of those six men.

 

The last paragraph that starts with "We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, ...." was not part of it though.

Edited by rabu
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It's impossible to know their pain

It's impossible to understand their sacrifice

All me can do is give them the respect and honor due their service

And let us never cease to say "Thank you" Salute.gif

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

 

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

 

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

 

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

November 19, 1863

 

 

 

A safe, happy, and blessed Memorial Day to everyone.

 

Lou

 

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