Thank you Vets
Thanks and Happy Veterans Day to all veterans worldwide!
Indeed, thank you from the bottom of my heart to all vets, worldwide, that served their country so the rest of us could live safe and free. Salute!
I remember too, thank you
As a Vet your very welcome. To all the other vets past and present, I also thank you.
As a Vietnam Vet I thank you for saying thanks. Have not heard that very much. To my comrades I thank you also......welcome home.
To ALL who have served and are serving, especially those who have walked the line for me and mine, THANK YOU.
LDF
Thank you vets for my freedom and safety
..........Least we forget............................
..."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -Jim Elliot
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
lest we forget...
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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Pete
(RAF ret'd, Falklands '82,Gulf '91)
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