11-09-2010, 12:43 AM
I, too, served during the Vietnam "Conflict." I lost quite a few friends; a couple from high school and a larger number from my time in the military. Because of my job objectives in the Army Security Agency, I never saw combat - mine was an intelligence gathering responsibility.
Abraham Lincoln is quoted as having said, "The American Flag does not fly because the wind moves past it. The American Flag flies from the last breath of each Soldier, Sailor, Airman & Marine who has died protecting it."
I fly Old Glory every day, from sunrise to sunset. I salute it after it's gone up and I salute it prior to it coming down. I was asked by a neighbor one afternoon out by the mailbox why I do that. The answer was, "Because it's the right thing to do!"
I remember those who have died so that we may be free every day. On Veterans/Remembrance Day, I make a day of it.
Unfortunately, not enough people take the time today to consider how fortunate we are to be able to live free, in a land that defends the right to be free and not have to exist under the constraints of tyranny. Nor do they pause to consider that we are free because others unselfishly gave their lives to insure our freedom. They take it for granted.
The words at the bottom of my signature are there to remind us all ...
Abraham Lincoln is quoted as having said, "The American Flag does not fly because the wind moves past it. The American Flag flies from the last breath of each Soldier, Sailor, Airman & Marine who has died protecting it."
I fly Old Glory every day, from sunrise to sunset. I salute it after it's gone up and I salute it prior to it coming down. I was asked by a neighbor one afternoon out by the mailbox why I do that. The answer was, "Because it's the right thing to do!"
I remember those who have died so that we may be free every day. On Veterans/Remembrance Day, I make a day of it.
Unfortunately, not enough people take the time today to consider how fortunate we are to be able to live free, in a land that defends the right to be free and not have to exist under the constraints of tyranny. Nor do they pause to consider that we are free because others unselfishly gave their lives to insure our freedom. They take it for granted.
The words at the bottom of my signature are there to remind us all ...
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln