I'll just bring this one up again: Thanks to Our Soldiers

GearHead_1

Long Time Member
On this Memorial Day weekend, a "THANK YOU" to our soldiers that have been, are and yet to be. Our Nation thanks you.

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

"Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Here's a poem you might like.

Rough men

There's a character trait that's decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they're faced with dragon breath fire in their hair.
Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.

Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war.
But how can they know lest they've been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation's call.

The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend,
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.

To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
 
Yes, have a great Memorial day and let us not forget the meaning of the day.

I'd like to add the thought that it is not just "rough" men that have stepped forward to proudly and bravely serve our country. I'm thinking of all the young men, some really just boys, that have served. I'm thinking specifically of my Dad, who at just 17 years had to have my Grandparents sign, volunteered to serve during WWII in the Pacific. He of the generation whom Tom Brokaw labeled as "The Greatest Generation". God Bless these men as their numbers dwindle with each passing day.
 
Good poem.

Whenever I am remembering to be thankful for the men and women who serve in our military I always remember the line in the movie "A Few Good Men" when she's arguing with Sam and he says "Why do you like them so much?" and she replies. "Because they stand on a wall and they say nothings going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch."

:USA
 
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