Veteran's Day

[RedefiningFate]

To all that have served and all that are serving. Thank you for placing yourself in harms way to do a duty so all of us can know what it's like to be free.

Thank you.

[Shorty]

Originally Posted by RedefiningFate

To all that have served and all that are serving. Thank you for placing yourself in harms way to do a duty so all of us can know what it's like to be free.

Thank you.

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A ‘Veteran‘ — whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve — is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America,” for an amount of “up to, and including his life.”

[Hooligan]

Originally Posted by Shorty

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Make that +2. I pray for your safe returns. A specific prayer to the men and women of the 1-32 of Tenth Mountain. Make it swift, make it safe. I'm buying you the first when you get home, brother.

[mark2olson]

General Eisenhower's letter to the Combined Expeditionary Force, IMO, stands as one of the great pieces of American writing and American Rhetoric. It is a poignant reminder of the sacrifices that you have made.

It is worth paraphrasing by stating that the hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. Thank you for taking a stand to protect those freedoms that we hold dear.


Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have
striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The
hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on
other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war
machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of
Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well
equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of
1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats,
in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their
strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home
Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions
of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to
Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in
battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.


SIGNED: Dwight D. Eisenhower

[TROUTMAN]

To those who have served, Thank you. To those who are serving, Thank you and come home safe!! We are proud of you!!!

[Fish On]

THANKS VETERANS

[wildernesswomen]

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John
McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Canadian Army

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.

[Fishingnerd33]

To all who have served, are currently serving, and who will serve:

THANK YOU!!!

Your sacrifice gives us the freedoms we enjoy every day!!