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FALL IN. PRESENT ARMS! [Veterans Day Thanks]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvZbq7AzQ3gIt is with great honor that I am able to post this here, as I did last year. Through out all the times in our lives that we may bicker among ourselves, complain about the quality of life, and even lash out with our anger in misguided frustration, we must always remember that we stand able to do these things, because of the Men and Women who have fallen for us.
Opinions come and go, politicians change, countries grow, but Soldiers stay the same. Defenders of what we hold to be inalienable rights to all living things, defenders of a constitution derived of Men who wished but nothing of equality for all. It is not a message of political ambition or self-righteous exasperation, but an idea that all born unto this earth ARE free to peruse a life of fulfillment and happiness. Sadly, the cost for this has never been short of the lives of those willing to defend it.
To those who are serving:
Remember back to your training, and even before that when you raised your right hand. Remember that understanding of sacrifice and determination, that overwhelming sense of pride. Remember that spark that allowed you to decide your life was worth giving up for the same reasons you joined. I implore you to infuse this feeling back into your day-to-day and especially into your units. The beuacracy of the Military is dreadful if you allow it to be. Remember why.
My heart goes out to you and I thank you for all you do. I thank you for all the time you spend away from your families. I thank you for all the long days, sleepless nights, and the toll your job takes on your body, now and in the future. I love you all with everything I can muster.
To those who have served:
The transition to civilian life is an interesting one. It was much easier in my head. We have been expected to set a standard for what feels like our entire life and as it turns out, the rest of the world doesn't play by the same rules. No one will ever know the true hardships we have faced save for those who have been with us. Do not fret over the confusion and ignorance of the world. We are unique to them, and sometimes uniqueness can be supplemented with fear, anger, and confusion. Never forget your discipline. Never forget our comrades. Walk strong and be proud.
I thank you for all you have done, for what I do not know you've done, and for what you continue to do. You are my brothers and sisters. We are a family of forgotten but not gone. I love you. You are always in my thoughts.
To those who have fallen:
I can not conjure the words to express my gratitude. You gave 100% of yourself and no cost is greater. There is not continue here. No extra coins to be inserted. Please take resolution in knowing that the rest of us are right behind you, screaming your message all the way to the gates of hell. You are loved. You are missed. May you rest in eternal peace.
Today is Veterans day, we take the time to honor those who serve. To give themselves up to something greater than their individuality is not an easy task, and I say while today is the day of rememberance and pleasentries, do not forget them tomorrow. They have not forgotten us.
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Chinese food and rum it is!
I sadly now agree
My wife and I are both Veterans, we spend a fair amount of time with the VA and the local VSC/Red Cross nearly every week. I'm big on blood drives and I give training on computers, Internet, resume construction, and connecting people with the right programs to help them with specific issues. My big thing I'm excited about is working with an independent group to try and study the results of video games and PTSD to create a therapeutic program without the pressures of making the service-member feel like they are broken.
I can't stress the blood donations enough though, I'm like a parrot with that shit everywhere I go.
If you really want to thank a veteran or service member, just casually walk up to them, politely get their attention ("Excuse me" works, and you can always use rank if you know it), then look them in the eye, extend your hand for a handshake, and say "Thank you."
That's really enough.
...also steak. Steak works good, too.
This year, I managed to track down one of these;
They're lovely (and allowed on uniforms) but it's so hard to find a Poppy Appeal guy who actually has some.
ed wait veterans day is not rememberance day with a different name is it.
In the Commonwealth, November 11th is Remembrance Day. Elsewhere, it's Veterans' Day or Armistice Day, but I'm not really clear on the terminology.
IIRC, Remembrance Day is more or less the British Veteran's Day.
From what I've been told, Veteran's Day was established because there was Armistice Day/Remembrance Day, and V-J day, and V-E day, and....yeah...
So some folks petitioned and Eisenhower supported the idea of having just one day to celebrate and remember all veterans.
Steam
I am programmed at fifty to perform childishly—to insult “The Star-Spangled Banner,” to scrawl pictures of a Nazi flag and an asshole and a lot of other things with a felt-tipped pen. To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for this book, here is my picture of an asshole:
I think I am trying to clear my head of all the junk in there—the assholes, the flags, the underpants. Yes—there is a picture in this book of underpants. I’m throwing out characters from my other books, too. I’m not going to put on any more puppet shows.
I think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago.
I suspect that this is something most white Americans, and nonwhite Americans who imitate white Americans, should do. The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can’t live without a culture anymore.
So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/world/europe/florence-green-last-world-war-i-veteran-dies-at-110.html?_r=2&src=tp&smid=fb-share&
I'm a big fan of this organization and I've had my Altama's for half a year now.
I wear them a lot.
I know it's the day after and all that but some folks have the day off and I missed this thread yesterday.