Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Memorial Day weekend.
While you enjoy friends and family please take a moment to remember all our young Men and Women who gave so much to guarantee you the freedom to do it.
If you see a vet, thank them for their service, and whatever you do please work to preserve the freedom they fought so hard for.
Tom Ford
NO. #762
posted by Crestwood Independent at 16:15
7 Comments:
I thank all of our VETERANS for their service to our Great Country!!
A Vet.
John, I personally thank you for your service.
Tom Ford
And I thank you too Tom!
Now liberty call, liberty call. All hands lay down to the patio, and party.
John
The oath of office to enter the military, Remember it never expires !
"Upon entering the United States Armed Forces, federal law requires everyone to swear the oath of enlistment. But when we swear the oath, just what are we obligated to – and for how long?"
The Oath of Enlistment in its current form:
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC !
Very interesting, No ?
Tom Ford
I wish that man could find a better approach to negotiating differences so that the killing would stop.
Steve Nieder
A Poem For Memorial Day
Bury Me With Soldiers
I've played a lot of roles in life;
I've met a lot of men.
I've done some things I'd like to think
I wouldn't do again.
And though I'm young, I'm old enough
To know that someday I will die,
And think about what lies beyond,
Beside whom I should lie.
Perhaps it doesn't matter much;
Still, if I had my choice,
I'd want a grave 'mongst soldiers when
At last death quells my voice.
I'm sick of the hypocrisy
Of lectures by the wise.
I'll take the man, with all his flaws,
Who goes, though scared, and dies.
The troops I know were commonplace:
They didn't want the war;
They fought because their fathers, and
Their fathers, had before.
They cursed and killed and wept - God
knows
They're easy to deride-
But bury me with men like these;
They faced the guns and died.
It's funny, when you think of it,
The way we got along.
We'd come from different worlds
To live in one where no one belongs.
I didn't even like them all;
I'm sure they'd all agree.
Yet I would give my life for them,I hope;
I know some did for me.
So bury me with soldiers, please
Though much maligned they be.
Yes, bury me with soldiers, for
I miss their company.
We'll not soon see their like again;
We've had our fill of war.
But bury me with men like them
Till someone else does more.
Rev. Charles R. Fink
(Formerly Sgt. in the 199th Lt. Infantry Brigade
Vietnam 3/69-3/70)
Tom Ford
Thanks again Tom for your service and respect for others before you.
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