Give away in memorial of Operation Red Wings

[winmagfrog]

BTT in case any one has missed it.

Progunner is doing a great job digging up the swag posts! No one out there feel up to finding anymore? There is at least one other that I can think of, maybe more...

 

[cerberus]

Count me in........

we would not be here if not for guys like you.

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

Cerberus

 

[WLJ4163]

Count me in. God bless our country and all those who serve in the Armed Forces.

 

[HDBeav]

Count me in,

God bless all that serve and give of themselves so others may live in peace.

Great thread. From me and my daughter, thank you for your service.

 

[LadyThud]

Count me in. and now a word from my sponsor, lady liberty:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

 

[LadyThud]

For Monica Brown who ran through bullets to pull her fellows out of a burning vehicle
The best version of the story that tells in detail what she did:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...4/30/AR2008043003415.html?sid=ST2008043003513

The story with the best picture of her:

http://conservativethoughts.us/2008/05/02/texas-woman-awarded-silver-star/

For Brian Cutter, one of my very first students. I have never forgotten seeing his name on a casualty list from Iraq.

For all my former students who are currently serving: Thank you. I wish you all a safe return and a peaceful heart.

 

[winmagfrog]

Thanks for all the entries and the kind sentiments. I hope everyone is enjoying Independence Day!

Mr. Bill Norwood sent me these articles and gave me permission to post them here. Turns out we really do live in a small world and you don't need to look far to find those touched by the War.

Please enjoy today for what it is. If you are fortunate enough to be surrounded by your family, make sure they know just how much they mean to you (that may mean getting off the computer!)

 

[iamtoast]

It is amazing that its often in the worst conditions, and darkest times, that heroes truly shine so brightly.

I can't stand our media who, instead of displaying the heroism of our soldiers and our allies, would rather do stories on rich idiot stars who overdose on ever form of depravity their undeserved wealth facilitates. They vilify the true heroes in the world, those men and women who are righting to make life better for others in a far off place. They report over and over again that we are still in Iraq only because we want to steal their oil, have we taken profit for even a single f#$king drop??? Our media and many of our elected officials choose to mask the truth about our wars and our fighters and say that we have lost these wars. Lost the war??? It is not the war we fight anymore. Our men and women kicked butt and won the war long ago. They fight and sacrifice every day to establish the peace, to build schools, infrastructure, and industry for the benefit, not to ourselves, but rather, for the people who are stuck living in that region.

What other country would sacrifice its men and women to rebuild nations that attack and threaten out existence? Just look at post WWII Japan and Germany. Did we occupy them to steal the resources of their land? NO! Both of these nations have stronger economies then we do now. Thank God that the French hate us.

In the history of man-kind I do not know of a group of men and women that exemplifies the good possible in our species more then that of the soldiers of the United States.

May God bless the men and women in our Armed Forces past, present, and future, and may our citizenry, those who have never served, learn a lot more Truths and begin to truly put praise where it belong, not on film stars etc. but on those who truly built, defend, and preserve our Freedom, a Freedom no other nation in the history of Earth has ever enjoyed, our solders.