03-30-2004, 22:27
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On Normandy's green fields
where the hedgerows still run
and the sands on the beaches lie quiet as air;
on the bluffs stand the cross
and the star white and pure;
the flag of our fathers flies high in the wind.
The battlefields calling,
are seen by a few
who have traveled so far,
to set down their memories
for buddies they've loved.
And each waning day,
as the sea mourns alone,
the soft sound of Taps
flows over the fields,
saying yes, we remember,
the brave deeds you've done,
we remember your faces eternally
young.
-- John Kent
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03-30-2004, 22:30
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Admiral Yamamoto
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03-30-2004, 22:30
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DAMN! Pulque's got game with that one from Parsons - I like that one a lot.
LOL - Reaper's going to be pissed I did Molon Labe.
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He knows only The Cause.
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03-30-2004, 22:30
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Damn, this thread grew fast. May I suggest we split it into verse (my favorite), and a (probably much larger) quotations thread?
--Dan
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03-30-2004, 22:33
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"This one is free, the next one will be a warning shot to the temple."
Ambush Master c. 2004
LOL
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He knows only The Cause.
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03-30-2004, 22:35
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a couple more..
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
~~John F. Kennedy
"Ask not alone for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure, you bring honor to yourself. Even more, you bring honor to us all."
~~Unknown
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03-30-2004, 22:35
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In war there is no prize for the runner-up
--General Omar Bradley
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
--General Douglas MacArthur
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03-30-2004, 22:36
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The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
--Psalms 27 1-3
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03-30-2004, 22:37
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"I once met three guys named pain, suffering and sacrifice. Now we're inseparable, we're best friends." Lance Armstrong
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“Its never too late to be what you might have been”.
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03-30-2004, 22:38
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Latter Bit of a Longer Work
. . . Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Something for you old folks out there. 
--Dan, gets paid to study this stuff. really.
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03-30-2004, 22:40
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"I can hear you and the People who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon".
--President George Bush
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03-30-2004, 22:42
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A NATION'S STRENGTH
What makes a nation's pillars high
And it's foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?
It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
It's shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.
Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passes away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust.
Their glory to decay.
And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;
But God has struck its luster down
In ashes at his feet.
Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly...
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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03-30-2004, 22:43
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"When all others turn away, the task is left to you and those with whom you serve."
Minamoto Musashi, 1626
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03-30-2004, 22:45
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MEDALS
Don't envy a man his medals
All those ribbons on his chest
He did not try to get them
They're not there at his request
They were earned in stinking hell holes
Where no man would like to go
Or in cold and wintry places
Where there's only ice and snow
He did not know he earned them
Till they were awarded at parade
And they were bright when he first got them
But in time the colors fade
He was told he had to wear them
And to wear them all with pride
But when the memories come to haunt him
Those same medals make him hide
Cause those medals will not bring back
All those guys he left behind
And he would trade them all forever
For a little peace of mind
So don't envy a man his medals
You don't want to take his place
Thinking back to long gone battles
And meeting dead friends face to face
Unknown
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03-30-2004, 22:45
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A CREED
....Edgar Guest
Lord, let me not in service lag.
Let me be worthy of our flag.
Let me remember when I'm tired,
The heroes who have died.
In freedom's name and in my way,
Teach me to be as brave as they,
In all I am, in all I do,
Unto our flag I would be true.
For God and country let me stand,
Unstained of soul, clean of hand.
Teach me to serve and guard and love,
The starry flag that flies above.
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