rick12string
Caught in the Crossfire
I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day and above all remember what it stands for!!! :usaflag:
Happy Memorial Day everyone!
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Thanks Rick and thank you to all of my brothers and sisters still serving, served, Family's who have made sacrifices, and thoes who gave there lives.
I think President Lincoln said it best in a speech that mirrors all our battles in the persute of freedom and our way of life!
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
God Bless America!!
I think President Lincoln said it best in a speech that mirrors all our battles in the persute of freedom and our way of life!
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
God Bless America!!
Psojka RP,601
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Thanks man! hope yours was good too!
Happy Memorial Day, indeed. This year marks tthe first time since 1997 that I haven't participated in an observance. I was initially happy to have the day off, but am now feeling a bit like I skipped out on something....thanks for the mention, though.
I had the opportunity to attend an observance, yesterday morning. My wife plays clarinet in a regional concert band, and they play for Mem. Day and Veteran's Day observances every year. It was held at a cemetary in a nearby town. It was quite moving and really helps you remember what it's all about.
And as a side note... as I've always thought/said... if you don't get moist eyes when you hear a well-played version of "Taps", you are just simply not an American. A couple trumpeters did an outstanding version yesterday. One was off a ways in the cemetary, and the other nearby, so it had that very cool echo or call & response effect!
And as a side note... as I've always thought/said... if you don't get moist eyes when you hear a well-played version of "Taps", you are just simply not an American. A couple trumpeters did an outstanding version yesterday. One was off a ways in the cemetary, and the other nearby, so it had that very cool echo or call & response effect!