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Tribute to my Dad and all the other veterans who have served


Mickalino

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Bless them. If not for our Vets especially our WWII Vets not only would I not exist but there would be no family member of mine left alive.

Thanks for volunteering and serving. You hold my deepest admiration.

I second that. Thanks to all Americans who gave their lives for freedom and saved the world from tyranny. I would not be here today if America wouldn't have saved our asses during WWII.

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...He was getting soaked to the skin. His BDUs were plastered to his frame. I watched-as he ran up to one of the memorial plaques, picked up the small American flag that had fallen to the ground in the wind and the rain, and set it upright again. Then, slowly, he came to attention, saluted the small flag, ran back to his car, and drove off.

I'll never forget that incident. That soldier, whose name I will never know, taught me more about duty, honor, and respect than a hundred books or a thousand lectures. ...

That's very powerful. Thanks for posting.
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Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;

Dream of battled fields no more,

Days of danger, nights of waking.

-- Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake

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From Alterbridge :

Underneath the desert sun

They bid my brother's blood to run

Many miles away

Hell has come today

Fire raining from the sky

See the face of fear asking one last time

Let me get home safe

Before it's too late

One by one

The brave will fall

Life is lost again

They gave it all

Deep within the castle walls

So many grieve as funeral songs

Echo endlessly

Ode to memories

This sacrifice of flesh and blood

For a promised land that may not be won

Let us not forget the hero laid to rest

And they gave it all

A price we can't ignore

Is there hope in what they're dying for?

Fore every hero born

From every family torn

We will honor you forevermore

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