Today when you are eating your barbeque or otherwise having a good time on this holiday, stop and take some time to think of the warriors who have fought and died for this country and for the veterans who have served. Drink a toast to our fine men and women in the military past and present. That is all.
Saw a British war dead memorial that said – We gave up all our tomorrows so you could have today.
Kohima War Cemetery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima#/media/File:Kohima_War_Cemetery,_Kohima,_Nagaland_(89).jpeg
Cheers
If I only have one beer today, it’ll be lifted in honor of those who didn’t make it back.
Last night my boys and I searched and watched videos about USS Hornet’s VT-8 “Torpedo 8” squadron which was wiped out while on their torpedo run by the Zero CAP and AA fire during the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942. Every single one of VT-8’s TBD Devastators was shot down and there was only one surviving pilot, Ensign George Gay, who wrote a bo0k about his experiences. Their sacrifice (and other’s) drew the Zeros down to the deck, and right when it seemed all was lost, our SBD Dauntless dive-bombers arrived at higher altitude, and the rest is history: by the end of the battle Japan’s four best carriers were sunk, and even more importantly, most of the Japanese navy’s elite fighter and bomber pilots were lost.
But of course, if you are over fifty years old, you already knew all that, because you still got a semblance of a decent education, before the liberal rot set in and expunged history from the curriculum.
Watched American Sniper again Saturday, and a great blu-ray of “A Bridge too Far” which was very powerful, I’d never seen it before. Might I add, my 16 yr old daughter enjoyed them very much alongside. She’s got an old soul, and I only wish she had more friends her age who could see the world through good lenses. Yes, I’m over 50 too, and it’s still very refreshing to see so many young men and women who serve and know what they do is for our greater good, whether or not so many of us realize and appreciate this fact.
4 years active air force, i year in thailand, 12 hours a day, 7pm -7am, then for my reward, i year in maine!!! never going back to texas, never gettting married, and never going back into the military! STRIKE, three, did them. But now youre doing some of the work for vets, by some of your news on your website!!! THANKS!!!
We had a barbeque, but the relatives we had over to join us made no mention of the occasion. We’re getting soft in a land preserved by hard men.
I remember my son-in-law, Marine Lance Corporal Brian Felber, born 5/3/89, critically wounded by an IED on 10/31/11, died 3/29/14. I miss you Buddy! I think of you every single day –