11-11-2014, 10:28
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Happy Veteran's Day, Brothers!
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
Henry V, William Shakespeare
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11-11-2014, 10:32
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Happy Veterans Day to all my Brothers and Sisters!
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11-11-2014, 11:40
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Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
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Happy Veterans Day To All!!!
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11-11-2014, 11:52
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Area Commander
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Happy Veteran's Day all!
Thank you for service and your many sacrifices.
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11-11-2014, 12:00
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: OK. Thanking Our Brave Soldiers
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Happy Veteran's Day to All of you who have served and are serving Our great Country! America is still alive and strong because of Our Veteran's!!!
We thank you all for your brave service. 
Holly & sis
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11-11-2014, 12:40
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Georgia
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Wishing a Happy Veterans Day to all my Brothers and Sisters who have served and are now serving in the armed forces of the United States of America . Thanks to all for your service and sacrifice!!!!!
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11-11-2014, 12:41
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Location: Cochise Co., AZ
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Salute, all! 
Pat
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11-11-2014, 13:36
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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Thank you all, for your service and dedication.
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11-11-2014, 15:32
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Guerrilla
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Location: Murrieta, Ca
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Thank you Veterans for your service, sacrifice, and dedication!
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–Albert Einstein
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11-11-2014, 15:47
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: VA
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Happy Veteran's Day all. To those past, present, and future.
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"Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me."- Richard Proenneke
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11-11-2014, 16:17
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Alaska
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Thank you for your service and sacrifice for our country.
Susan
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11-11-2014, 16:40
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: The Black Hills of SD
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Thanks to all who have stood watch past, present and future.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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11-11-2014, 16:41
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Location: Idaho
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Happy Veteran's Day, all!
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"It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live." -Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
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11-11-2014, 16:59
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Happy Veteran's Day, all. Thank you and be safe.
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11-11-2014, 17:00
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Location: Western WI
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Right back at ya. 
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