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- Bob Hope visits DaNang 1969
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Sgt Grit I saw your newsletter about going to the Bob Hope Show near DaNang in 1969. It was at Freedom Hill and I was there also. In fact I was a Squadron Photographer (First Marine Air Wing, MAG 11, VMA225 at the DaNang Airbase) and was sitting on the ground right in front of the stage. I took 600 pictures of the show and went again the next year to see his 1970 show and give him an album of the pictures I had taken the year before. Bob …
Read More - My Banner
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We were a home school family and home on 9-11-2001. My sons and I watched as the first tower burned. The news commentators speculated about the "accident". Then we watched as the second plane hit the second tower. That morning we watched the both World Trade Center Towers collapse. The boys were getting very excited, calling their scout friends, then the news switched to Washington, D.C. I, frankly, could not believe this, then word of a plane crashed in Pennsylvania. It would be some time before we …
Read More - How do you describe freedom?
- A lot of people ask Veterans and service members the same question, how do you describe Freedom? Our answer is usually the same, the common “well, it means different things to different people.” Because most people do not look at it from our perspective, we really can’t tell you how we describe it. So, I thought that I would share it with you and maybe you will be able to see it from our point of view. First, you have to have a little back ground about our situation. Imagine, …
Read More - Support for Our Troops
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Sgt.Grit, I wanted to show support for our troops so I rounded up some millitary and patriotic gnomes representing all branches of the service and put them in my yard.I then found some plywood and made the black shadows. I have received a lot of nice comments but there is always room for inprovement. Semper Fi, Larry Fisher Cpl. 1962-66
- Flag Pictures
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I'm writing you this in response to the American Courage letter I received on 10 December 2010, specifically, the section by Henry J Lewis about his father, CPL Elmer B Lewis who fought on Kwajalein with the 4th Marine Division's first wave. I and some fellow Marines who are working on Kwajalein today would like to show our appreciation to the Lewis family and our fellow Leatherneck. On 12 December 2010 we are going to gather all the Marines on base and fly the American flag at half mast at …
Read More - 4th of July Poem - Birthday Tribute
- A Birthday Tribute To Our Nation Poem by By Bob Beskar Every time I see "Old Glory", I think of many things... But most of all our freedom, that so many died to bring! Though our Nation still is young, and suffers growing pains, the visions of our forefathers, still solidly remains. Their dreams are now reality, and their hopes the way we live, and the blood they shed for us, was the price they vowed to give. We've weathered many storms, and made some huge mistakes, But we strive …
Read More - American Poem - Just A Common Soldier
- Just A Common Soldier By: A. Lawrence Vaincourt ©1985 He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done, In his exploits with his buddies; they were heroes, every one. And tho' sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke, All his Legion buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke. But we'll hear his tales no longer for old Bill …
Read More - Two Songs written for Veterans
- A Tribute To Veterans In Vietnam, Korea and World Wars Past Our Men Fought Bravely so Freedom Would Last Conditions Were Not Always Best They Could Be Fighting a Foe You Could Not Always See: From Mountain Highs to Valley Lows From Jungle Drops to Desert Patrols Our Sinewy Sons Were Sent Over Seas Far From Their Families And Far From Their Dreams They Never Wrote Letters Of Hardships Despair Only Of Love, Yearning That One Day Soon: They Would Come Home, They Would Resume And Carry On With The …
Read More - Veterans Day Story
- Somebody Had To Do It Written by Lynn Johnston, Spring, TX 11/99 Just five insignificant words: Somebody had to do it. We use these words in various ways, such as when someone tells they take tour groups to Paris or sample Godiva chocolates for a living. "It's a job," they say, "and somebody's got to do it!" I remember my husband saying those words recently, after volunteering to lick the praline pot at a cooking school in New Orleans. "Somebody's got to do it," he announced, cracking a huge smile. …
Read More - Patriotic Poem of America’s Heroes
- America's Hero's and Times Quiescence Poem by Herbert G. Renner, Jr., Master Chief, Hospital Corps, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Photos by Gerald F. Merna First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) Former Members of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, Korea (Note: Except for George C. Merna's memorial stone, all pictures were randomly taken at monuments depicted on May 25, 2002). Grassy fields of Crosses, Stars and Crescents, Stand the staves in all of times quiescence Gone the agony, the suffering, the pain, Of wounds that leave the warrior's …
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