Veterans day message 2012

[tokio krisis]

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SINCE THE FOUNDING OF OUR NATION, BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES HAVE RISKED AND SACRIFICED MUCH TO SECURE PEACE AND PROSPERITY FOR THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS.

ON 11 NOVEMBER, WE DEDICATE THE DAY TO HONOR ALL MILITARY VETERANS WITH THE RESPECT AND GRATITUDE THEY SO RICHLY DESERVE. THEIR LEGACY REMINDS US THAT SELFLESS SERVICE IN THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS A HALLMARK OF ALL OUR MILITARY MEMBERS.

AS WE COMMEMORATE AND PAY SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO VETERANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, MAY WE DRAW INSPIRATION FROM THEIR SERVICE TO THE NATION. I KNOW ALL WHO WEAR THE EAGLE, GLOBE AND ANCHOR WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD UPON THE ILLUSTRIOUS HERITAGE OF THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US AS MEMBERS OF AMERICA'S MILITARY. ON THIS HALLOWED DAY, IT IS ALSO APPROPRIATE TO REMEMBER THE SACRIFICES MADE BY THE FAMILIES OF OUR VETERANS, WHO LIKEWISE HAVE BORNE THE HARDSHIPS OF MILITARY SERVICE.

HAPPY VETERANS DAY AND SEMPER FIDELIS!

JAMES F. AMOS, GENERAL, U.S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS

[IPD]

just one story among thousands that we pay homage by remembering:

Valor: "Here Am I. Send Me."

[tokio krisis]

just one story among thousands that we pay homage by remembering:

Valor: "Here Am I. Send Me."

"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Here am I. Send me." Isaiah 6:8

We salute Lieutenant Karl W. Richter

[Alex3000gt]

Remembering those who serve, those who afford us the luxury of not serving.

[j2k4]

Our eternal thanks and appreciation to those who serve and sacrifice.

You are in my constant prayers.

[beepbeep]

Deepest gratitude, brothers and sisters.

[HilbillyHomeboy]

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

- General George S. Patton

[IPD]

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

- General George S. Patton

i also like "the point isn't to die for one's country. it's to make the other sonuvabitch die for his".