Thread: In Remembrance Of Those Who Gave Their All For Our Country

Today President Bush will lay a wreath in Arlington Cemetery, it would be nice if he would realize as he does so that they did not die for open borders.

In Remembrance Of Those Who Gave Their All For Our Country take a couple of seconds to read these words written by an American General
so many years ago. If the words do not seem familiar to you when you get to the bottom and click the link you will recognize it.

Day is done,
gone the sun,
From the hills,
from the lake,
From the skies.
All is well,
safely rest,
God is nigh.

Go to sleep,
peaceful sleep,
May the soldier
or sailor,
God keep.
On the land
or the deep,
Safe in sleep.

Love, good night,
Must thou go,
When the day,
And the night
Need thee so?
All is well.
Speedeth all
To their rest.

Fades the light;
And afar
Goeth day,
And the stars
Shineth bright,
Fare thee well;
Day has gone,
Night is on.

Thanks and praise,
For our days,
'Neath the sun,
Neath the stars,
'Neath the sky,
As we go,
This we know,
God is nigh.
http://www.wingtop3.org/taps.htm

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 wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

During the desperate days of the Battle of Britain, hundreds of Americans crossed the border into Canada to enlist with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Knowingly breaking the law, but with the tacit approval of the then still officially neutral United States Government, they volunteered to fight the Nazis.

John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was one such American. Born in Shanghai, China, in 1922 to an English mother and a Scotch-Irish-American father, Magee was 18 years old when he entered flight training. Within the year, he was sent to England and posted to the newly formed No 412 Fighter Squadron, RCAF, which was activated at Digby, England, on 30 June 1941. He was qualified on and flew the Supermarine Spitfire.

Flying fighter sweeps over France and air defense over England against the German Luftwaffe, he rose to the rank of Pilot Officer.

On 3 September 1941, Magee flew a high altitude (30,000 feet) test flight in a newer model of the Spitfire V. As he orbited and climbed upward, he was struck with the inspiration of a poem — "To touch the face of God."

Once back on the ground, he wrote a letter to his parents. In it he commented, "I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day. It started at 30,000 feet, and was finished soon after I landed." On the back of the letter, he jotted down his poem, 'High Flight'.

Just three months later, on 11 December 1941 (and only three days after the US entered the war), Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was killed. The Spitfire V he was flying, VZ-H, collided with an Oxford Trainer from Cranwell Airfield flown by one Ernest Aubrey. The mid-air happened over the village of Roxholm which lies between RAF Cranwell and RAF Digby, in the county of Lincolnshire at about 400 feet AGL at 11:30. John was descending in the clouds. At the enquiry a farmer testified that he saw the Spitfire pilot struggle to push back the canopy. The pilot, he said, finally stood up to jump from the plane. John, however, was too close to the ground for his parachute to open. He died instantly. He was 19 years old.

http://www.skygod.com/quotes/highflight.html

Thank you to all the men and women who have or are serving in our Armed Forces.

And a special prayer of remembrance for all those who died for us.

May we continue to uphold our Country and it's Constitution!

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Attention.

Hand salute.

Two.

Carry on.

As an aside....

I shudder when I hear the term "hero" bandied about when referencing some, to me, overpaid sports star. It's gotten so bad that a local house builder uses the term "hero" to describe those buying their houses.

I wonder how long after Bush, senator Chuck Hagel, and all those selling out the USA recive by some the label "hero."

Carry on.

CHARLIE......I now put his action in the same category as I do klinton's foray in Normandy.

Plain and simple...........BULL SHIT

PinestrawGuys,

Just watched it, and am sitting here crying. Thank you for the link.
I'm thinking of family who died on Normandy, and in Germany, fighting the Nazis and of my Grandfather who lied about his age (14) to fight in the Spanish-American war. He was one of the last 12 men from that war in the VFW. And about the nurse at our church, who survived unspeakable hardships and torture at the hands of the Japanese, on the Bataan March. She's 95 now, came to church, Sunday. What spirit!

I'm going to send that link to my network, AND to the President, and lawbreakers!!!!!

Thanks again.

Join the club, Pat. I've been crying on and off for 3 days.
At least it shows we have great heart, eh?

yep 2nd,

If we didn't, we couldn't be doing this battle with the lawbreakers. Can't wait to hear from W.

Am trying to write some letters now for the push.

If anyone wonders why Pat is crying, I split the link into its own topic here...

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-29443.html

It says it ALL for me.

bttt