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In honor of those who served...

• WigerToods2010 8,446 Posts

  Mon, Nov 9 2015 1:51 AM

  Jimbog1964:

  Great thread.  A huge debt we all owe.

  +1000

  Thank you to veterans past and present from all around the globe.

  

  "Some gave all. All gave some."

   

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Mon, Nov 9 2015 2:56 AM

  Agree, wifes 1st remembrance yesterday at local cenotaph without her father, who i have on my blog since passing away this year. To all who have fought to enable peace and to those who still are.

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Mon, Nov 9 2015 11:09 AM

  WigerToods2010:

  Thank you to veterans past and present from all around the globe.

  + 1 Gazillion

  In Flanders Fields

  In Flanders fields the poppies blow
  Between the crosses, row on row,
  That mark our place: and in the sky
  The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below.

  We are the Dead. Short days ago
  We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
  Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
  In Flanders fields.

  Take up our quarrel with the foe:
  To you from failing hands we throw
  The torch: be yours to hold it high.
  If ye break faith with us who die
  We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
  In Flanders fields.

  by John McCrae (1872-1918)

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Wed, Nov 11 2015 2:50 PM

  To all my fellow Veterans past and present. May your service and sacrifices never be forgotten.

  Renni

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Wed, Nov 11 2015 3:12 PM

  In Flanders Fields:

  LCol John McCrae was a Canadian Medical Officer posted to the front lines during WW1...he wrote this enduring Rondeau in honor of a close friend, who was killed the day prior during the battle of Ypres. As the story goes, McCrea was unhappy with the "just finished" poem and discarded it. A fellow soldier picked it off the ground and it was eventually published in England.

  Thank-you for posting it, Alan.

  ct

• TracyMax 2,361 Posts

  Wed, Nov 11 2015 3:46 PM

  renniw52:

  To all my fellow Veterans past and present. May your service and sacrifices never be forgotten.

  Renni

  Amen, I add my thanks also.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Nov 11 2015 4:38 PM

  renniw52:

  To all my fellow Veterans past and present. May your service and sacrifices never be forgotten.

  Renni

  A personal thanks to you Rich and your Dad for serving and protecting our country. And to all Veterans, I will never forget, thank you.

  Here's a couple of videos by ESPN in tribute to our veterans.  The first one is short and called To Those Who Dared To Take This Oath.  The second is called Coming Home.

  ESPN tribute to our veterans.

   

• MRCCZ 24 Posts

  Wed, Nov 11 2015 4:55 PM

  Thank you for your service, and for my freedom

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Thu, Nov 12 2015 3:31 PM

  It hits a nerve with me to see so few responses on this. I guess way too many just take it for granted. I can't even comment any further because I will go back to the old me. I buried the old Renni a long time ago. It just breaks my heart to realize that only a few even care any more.

• jb6000 1,231 Posts

  Thu, Nov 12 2015 11:53 PM

  I posted as did a few others but our post's got deleted ?

  Not fair admin...