tdawnaz Posted September 13, 2007 CID Share Posted September 13, 2007 i know i'm just messin with ya i was gonna say something...but...nah...not in this topic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted September 13, 2007 CID Share Posted September 13, 2007 i just noticed...we got more voters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWO Posted September 23, 2007 CID Share Posted September 23, 2007 This may have been posted before but it needs to be posted AGAIN !!!! http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/hancock/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted September 23, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 23, 2007 Yeah, its still nice. Thanks for the reminder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted September 23, 2007 CID Share Posted September 23, 2007 well if that was posted before i missed it...nice...very nice ewo...thank you for ur finds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWO Posted October 1, 2007 CID Share Posted October 1, 2007 Veterans, One and All.... We Salute You WHAT IS A VET ? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service, a missing limb, an aged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg, or perhaps another sort of inner steel - the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades or certain meetings, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a Vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel. She-or he- is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another- or didn't come back AT ALL. He is the Quantico drill instructor that has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each others back. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. He is the three anonymous heroes in the Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless depths. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket, palsied now and aggravatingly slow, who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known. If only each time we would see someone who served our country, not just on days we are expected to, we would simply lean over and say " Thank You ". That's all most people need and most times, it will mean more than any huge celebration or medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, " THANK YOU ". ( Author Unknown ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted October 2, 2007 Author CID Share Posted October 2, 2007 Thats nice EWO. Thankfully true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWO Posted November 3, 2007 CID Share Posted November 3, 2007 I had not seen this before - I hope you enjoy and feel what I felt watching this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted November 3, 2007 CID Share Posted November 3, 2007 loved it ewo...i added that to my myspace that guy is amazing...i knew right away that he was doing a flag...but who woulda guessed where he was going with it...i thought that was gonna be a soldier in the middle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted November 3, 2007 Author CID Share Posted November 3, 2007 That one after it went well also. My youngest wanted to see it, it was good also. "I miss you daddy." Click on the one with the yellow faced little girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted November 3, 2007 CID Share Posted November 3, 2007 wish u had posted the link...that first one had me in tears the first time...i'll have to wait and see but i think the one ur talking about is the one that my daughter made me watch...we'll see yep that's the one...another tear jerker... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOYF0bVYa1Y edit to add link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted November 3, 2007 Author CID Share Posted November 3, 2007 I tried, it kept reverting back to the painting. Not sure what was up. I'll try again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOYF0bVYa1Y I just had to figure how to copy it to my notebook or whatever, they changed it on me. That one works. Aw, ya beat me. Better luck next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWO Posted November 3, 2007 CID Share Posted November 3, 2007 My hat's off to both of ya'll. Thanks $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ :smitten: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted November 14, 2007 CID Share Posted November 14, 2007 Just got this in an email and thought I would share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted November 14, 2007 CID Share Posted November 14, 2007 that was beautiful...heart wrenching story...i love that song... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted November 14, 2007 Author CID Share Posted November 14, 2007 That was great coknuck, thanks. It certainly says partly why us americans have so much patriotism. We had to earn it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted November 14, 2007 CID Share Posted November 14, 2007 I thank you for sending it to me! I'll bet they don't teach that in History anymore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted November 15, 2007 CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 P A T R I O T I S M only applies if you a are standing on favorable ground , just a dumb ass Brit view , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWO Posted November 15, 2007 CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 Thank you coknuck. Tommie and I tried to figure how to post it. Very good job. Once again thanks for posting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted November 15, 2007 CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWO Posted November 15, 2007 CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 I hope this is not a repeat - if it is please forgive an Old Man. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman7/TNOTW.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted November 15, 2007 CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 wow that's alot of people...alot of our servicemen and women (probably not that many women back then) and that i'm sure doesn't include those that have died and r dying from the chemicals...how many have died in this mid east war going on now?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted November 15, 2007 CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 Here are some pictures of the traveling Wall I took at Pioneer Park down the road (5mi.) from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted November 15, 2007 Author CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 Yeah, I imagine agent orange took many more. I know I lost more buddies to it than the bullets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWO Posted November 15, 2007 CID Share Posted November 15, 2007 HUMAN STATUE OF LIBERTY http://www.snopes.com/photos/patriotic/liberty.asp This is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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