Lest we forget

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This one is for the men that we truly forgot. As a people, we were horrible to the men and women returning from Viet Nam. I realize it was probably the lest popular and possible an illegal war, but the soldiers were victims as well. For most, they were forgotten or ridiculed. We need to stand up and thank them properly......

There are times she is kneeling out of obedience, reverence and respect. Those are the times it is okay to stand above her. But when she is kneeling because the weight of the world is just too heavy to bear … that is when You should be kneeling beside her.

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GabrielSweet

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One last post, I want to again thank you, Danielle, for a truly lovely poem. It is wonderful. The devotion is in the words, thank you. Principessa, thank you for 'Flanders Field', it was also a very well known poem when I was in school and poppies were passed out at the schools as well.

Dee, Randy, and Martin thank you for sharing your families contributions to our freedom. As you might guess this is a passion of mine. I believe we need to stop seeing the soldiers as soldiers alone. They are our family, friends, and neighbors. They saw a duty or responsibility and grabbed it with both hands. I am so very thankful for the gift your family members gave us. I would like to have been able to shake their hands and tell them so. Martin your family sounds like mine, long lines of service.

Jack, your father may have the most impressive story I have ever read. It is tragic what his country and even his adopted countries did to him. It was truly barbaric, but I do have to take exception to your other post .....

Quote by Jack_42
So all this adds up to the fact that war is a bad idea. So don't do it rather than eulogize the poor bastards who you conscripted to carry out the insanity.

As I do agree that it is a fact that war is a stupid and horrible idea. I have never met a soldier that felt like a "poor bastard" for what they were doing. And as far as conscripted, during WWII no one had to be forced into service, and your father certainly wasn't conscripted. Hell, he went from country to country, none his own, to help stop what he felt to be wrong. Do you think he felt like a "poor bastard"? As I have said, my own country was not immune to this, they treated the Viet Nam vet like criminals. Your father and every other vet deserve better. I applaud your father for his patriotism. As far as dying for his country, the name is not what matters, just the people. That is who we serve. Those soldiers and friends deserve the eulogy and remembrance as well as nothing but admiration from those they served.

I read this quote some time ago and changed it a little since we are a multi-nation community. I believe it says it all.

“A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life wrote a blank check made payable to the people of their homeland for an amount up to and including their life.”

THANK YOU ALL ...... Lest We Forget

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