Comments on: Memorial Day Weekend Remembrances

By: sully

sully — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:41:06 +0000

……. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

By: Dan (The Infidel)

Dan (The Infidel) — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:35:55 +0000

There are tards in Europe that refer to America as the “great bully”. Those same tards never lived through WWI or WWII. They take their freedom’s for granted. They haven’t the foggiest as to what that freedom cost many.

The legacy of our fallen heroes is legion: D-Day, Iwo, The Bulge, Inchon, I Corps, Somalia, Lebanon, Gulf War I, Iraq II and Afghanistan.

Americans have died in large numbers to gurantee and preserve the freedom of the spoiled west.

Ungrateful, subsequent generations cannot fathom the price that the boys at Point De Huc paid or The 29th paid or the 173rd, 101st and 82nd or the Marines paid at Iwo, Saipan, et al., to ensure those freedoms from that generation to this generation.

This spoiled generation didn’t fly those deep missions to Tokyo, or Berlin or walk to and from the Yalu in the dead of winter.

No. They have no sense of history and no love of the military. They’re too caught up in “Liberation Theology” or the sophistry of Zinn, Chompsky, Said and Alinsky. They put us all in peril.

And yet, even from this generation the cream rises to the top. New heroes like Mcginnis, Monsoor stand four-square with the Murphys, and the Yorks from previous generations.

Freedom is NOT free. Sometimes it takes all we got to preserve it. The war against jihadistan is just such a war.

The previous generations have passed the torch to this generation. It is up to them to carry on.

To those whose legacy is written in the annals of history and on the stone markers that mark their final resting places, we owe a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.

It is the soldier, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.

By Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC

By: mindy abraham

mindy abraham — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:33:20 +0000

beautiful quote

By: Dan (The Infidel)

Dan (The Infidel) — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:47:32 +0000

It is the soldier, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the soldier
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.