lest we forget

[madmexican]

please don't forget to just say thanks to all those you know that served our country. you might now agree with the governement, and you might not like the way things are going, but remember this........the men and women that serve do not make policy, they just go where they are told. i know this is a bit long, but if you can watch this and "never forget"

http://www.gcsdistributing.com/WeSupportU.htm

A salute, and a "thank you," to our veterans. Some differing points of view
for Veterans' Day:

Soldiers and saviors of the homes we love;
Heroes and patriots who marched away,
And who marched back, and who marched on above--
All--all are here to-day!
--James Whitcomb Riley

God bless the Flag and its loyal defenders,
While its broad folds o'er the battle-field wave,
Till the dim star-wealth rekindle its splendors,
Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ay, War, they say, is hell; it's heaven, too.
It lets a man discover what he's worth.
It takes his measure, shows what he can do,
Gives him a joy like nothing else on earth.
It fans in him a flame that otherwise
Would flicker out, these drab, discordant days;
It teaches him in pain and sacrifice
Faith, fortitude, grim courage past all praise.
--Robert W. Service

Underneath the autumn sky,
Haltingly, the lines go by.
Ah, would steps were blithe and gay,
As when first they marched away,
Smile on lip and curl on brow,--
Only white-faced gray beards now
Standing on life's outer verge,
E'en the marches sound a dirge.
--Paul Laurence Dunbar

When you leave here,
Tell them of us, and say:
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today.
--monument, Kohima, India, to British soldiers killed resisting Japanese
advance, World War II