To me this is a tough holiday, I sat out in my garage yesteday and drank a cold beer and smoked a cigar to my fallen buddy's, not ashamed to say it, but tears tricked down my cheek.
I'm the tall one on the left, that picture was taken when I was a cherry, first week in country.
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Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who don't~ Thomas Jefferson~ Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held it's ground~Unknown~Just because your offended doesn't mean your right~Unknown.
I lost one uncle to a kamakazie, right before ***an surrendered. Another lived through two German death marches...barely. Another nearly died from brain injuries during a manuvers exercise. I'm permenantly in an ankle brace, but not because I saw any action--blasted "confidence course" at Ft. Gordon, GA. Thought it was just a sprain back then, came back to haunt me years later as arthritus. Oh well. Lots more have given a whole lot more. They deserve our respect.
Chad
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
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John Adams “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
Ronald Reagan: 'Everybody that is for abortion has already been born'
"I never said I was worth it. I only said I wouldn't do it for less " William F. Buckley Jr.
Memorial Day
