Pooka had it right
I think Pooka said it best.. "If you think the soldiers are tough, look at the ones they leave behind.
We have to pull together. It's a pack instinct to the greatest degree. When one is hurt, we're all hurt and work together to solve it."
I've been the one left behind more than once. It's hard enough to watch your spouse board a train, a plane or climb into a tank to be off to serve, but to watch your child do the same is far harder.
Wednesday, I was at the 7-11 fueling my car up and heard a song that was popular during the Desert Storm era. Interesting turn of phrase, "Desert Storm ERA." It seems so long ago that I first set foot in Texas just before that war began. In Texas, the proper display of the state flag in war time should be upside down. I think that's a tradition that goes back to the days when Texas was an independent republic.
I was saying, the song it's called, "God Bless the USA." It became the anthem for that period in time. As long as the US flies Old Glory and she stands for everything our founding fathers believed in and sacrificed for, this song will have meaning for all Americans, no matter where they are, who they are, or where their family originated from.
From http://www.leegreenwood.com/
If tomorrow all the things were gone I worked for all my life and I had to start again with just my children and my wife.
I thank my lucky stars to be living here today cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA!
From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea from Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA well there's pride in every American heart and it's time that we stand and say that:
I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA!
We have to pull together. It's a pack instinct to the greatest degree. When one is hurt, we're all hurt and work together to solve it."
I've been the one left behind more than once. It's hard enough to watch your spouse board a train, a plane or climb into a tank to be off to serve, but to watch your child do the same is far harder.
Wednesday, I was at the 7-11 fueling my car up and heard a song that was popular during the Desert Storm era. Interesting turn of phrase, "Desert Storm ERA." It seems so long ago that I first set foot in Texas just before that war began. In Texas, the proper display of the state flag in war time should be upside down. I think that's a tradition that goes back to the days when Texas was an independent republic.
I was saying, the song it's called, "God Bless the USA." It became the anthem for that period in time. As long as the US flies Old Glory and she stands for everything our founding fathers believed in and sacrificed for, this song will have meaning for all Americans, no matter where they are, who they are, or where their family originated from.
From http://www.leegreenwood.com/
If tomorrow all the things were gone I worked for all my life and I had to start again with just my children and my wife.
I thank my lucky stars to be living here today cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA!
From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea from Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA well there's pride in every American heart and it's time that we stand and say that:
I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA!