My thanks and well-wishes to the men and women who have served this country — many of them who engaged in the “air raiding of villages and the killing of civilians,” and “at times [have] personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan…”
You are all patriots.
Except when your are murdering killbots with no education forced into soldiering by economic necessity.
At which time you are to be pitied, I guess.
****
Other thoughts, from J Crittenden.
Comment by Tim McNabb on 11/11 @ 12:08 pm #
Your welcome Jeff.
And to all you douchebags on the left who, in your mendacious fits of juvenile petulance lash and spit at the nation in which you are free to be a lashing, spitting, mendacious petulant, juvenile douchebag, you too are welcome.
Comment by BumperStickerist on 11/11 @ 12:10 pm #
My thanks and well-wishes to the men and women who have served this country
You’re welcome.
USAF, 208×4G
Comment by Sticky B on 11/11 @ 12:14 pm #
I think you pretty well summed up their entire foriegn policy platform.
Except for abandoning the Jews to their plight at the hands of their barbaric neighbors. You might want to expand on that a little.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 11/11 @ 12:16 pm #
[SALUTE]
Comment by Nan on 11/11 @ 12:16 pm #
My brother (USMC), father (USN - two wars), Grandfather (Roughrider), and Great-Grandfather (Union Army), would never have voted for this man.
Comment by Hvy Mtl Hntr on 11/11 @ 12:46 pm #
Thank you, Jeff. From a Gold star family Outlaw-
Comment by Jack Klompus on 11/11 @ 12:51 pm #
Shipping 20090108 to Ft. Benning for BCT. Beginning 6 year commitment in U.S. Army Reserves - 344th Tactical Psyops.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 11/11 @ 12:51 pm #
A sincere thank you and salute to those who have already and continue to serve, especially my father USN 1947-49.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/11 @ 12:55 pm #
This doesn’t feel like a normal Veteran’s Day at all.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/11 @ 12:56 pm #
it didn’t like the link and I screwed up the blockquotes … I’m doing this while pretending to the guy on the phone I haven’t gotten his email yet what he wants to talk about
Comment by Lisa on 11/11 @ 1:01 pm #
My father fought in three wars. He would definitely have voted for Obama.
I wish he had lived to see it.
:-(
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Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/11 @ 1:06 pm #
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.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/11 @ 1:17 pm #
I will leave it to others more skilled in textual analysis and destruction to parse out what the poeam means.
To me it means that there is a flame that must be kept burning, a task passed down through time, a light that cannot be permitted to surrender to the darkness. And that flame has a name - liberty, the imprisoned lightening, showing the path to the Golden Door.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
McCrae was a Canadian, he understood.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/11 @ 1:18 pm #
Thank you, all veterans, of all eras.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/11 @ 1:22 pm #
Semper Fi from a Marine Corps Dad!
Please keep my son, Matt the Marine, in your thoughts and prayers as he deploys with 3/8 from Camp Lejuene as part of a MAGTF, taking over for 2/7 in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
The Marine Corps Flag will fly outside our house every day of his deployment, and he will never be far from my thoughts.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/11 @ 1:26 pm #
Jack Klompus ,
Have you read “Psychological Warfare” by Paul Linebarger?
It’s on my “to-buy” list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith
Comment by Diana on 11/11 @ 1:34 pm #
John McCrae asked my grandmother to marry him. She said no.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 11/11 @ 1:34 pm #
I’m going to now as per your recommendation, N.O’B. Thanks for the tip! And a huge thanks to your son for his service!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/11 @ 1:35 pm #
That’s Khan; Jenghis Khan.
Comment by Diana on 11/11 @ 1:36 pm #
But, I say thank you … to all the serving military of Canada and the great U.S. of A. and to the veterans who risked it all for us.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 11/11 @ 1:37 pm #
Wow copies of that Linebarger book are going for $450.00 on Amazon!
Comment by Tim McNabb on 11/11 @ 1:38 pm #
Forgot to put my unit (heh!) 577th EN BN, 1 EN BDE. An unremarkable soldier in a remarkable time. Decades later, I am glad to have had the privilege.
Watched a PBS special on Medal of Honor recipients (”winner” seems somehow off given how many are posthumous). Sobering.
Comment by Lisa on 11/11 @ 1:41 pm #
Thank you, all veterans, of all eras.
What he said.
Really.
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/ \ ___
_.–. | / |.’ `’.
.’ `\ \| / \
/ _ \.=..=./ _.’ /
‘. .-’-.}`..`{-’-. /
\ .—.{ () }.–..-’
‘/ _},’`.{_ `\
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( / /| \ )
‘-..___.’ : ‘.___..-’
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Not a poppy but kind of looks like one. I couldn’t find any ASCII poppies. Found lots of marijuana leaves though.
Comment by Lisa on 11/11 @ 1:41 pm #
Oh man, PW squooshed my flower. Now it looks like a peice of dried tobacco.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/11 @ 1:43 pm #
“Now it looks like a peice of dried tobacco.”
Must belong to a Marine.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/11 @ 1:49 pm #
Let me join others here in giving my thanks to our veterans for their past service, and pre-emtively thank them for the services I suspect they will do when returning home from foreign shores to find the miserable state of our politics, they take up the banner of country once again and step forward to lead in other fields.
Comment by Lisa on 11/11 @ 1:50 pm #
Ha, ha, O’Brain.
Comment by irongrampa on 11/11 @ 1:53 pm #
This vet says you are most welcome for the thank you.
Comment by dicentra on 11/11 @ 1:55 pm #
For the Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England’s foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Comment by Roland THTG on 11/11 @ 1:56 pm #
All gave some, some gave all.
Thank you and God Speed.
PMD of SGT Jr USMC
Comment by Kevin on 11/11 @ 2:11 pm #
To all who have served and are serving: Thank you very much! I salute you.
Kevin C.
USAF (Ret.) 2F0X1
Comment by McGehee on 11/11 @ 2:33 pm #
To all who wear or have worn the uniform of this nation to serve in her defense: Thank you.
To all who denigrate or demonize those thanked in the above sentence: (another word that ends with “k”) you.
Comment by SGT Ted on 11/11 @ 2:43 pm #
It has been an honor to serve you all, even tards like alphie, for 26 years.
I retire 31 Doc 08, ringing in 2009 as a civilian again. It’s going to be weird yet fun. Another adventure.
Comment by Roland THTG on 11/11 @ 2:47 pm #
I retire 31 Doc 08
Awesome. Congratulations!
Comment by John Cheshire on 11/11 @ 2:47 pm #
Your service means more to me then you will ever know. Thank You!
…and your welcome. I wish I could have done more.
John Cheshire
USAF 602AGS
Comment by BJTexs on 11/11 @ 3:10 pm #
Thank you and Godspeed to all of you for your service and sacrifices.
From Ronald Reagan’s speech at Pointe du Hoc on June 6, 1984.
Comment by ushie on 11/11 @ 3:17 pm #
Thank you for serving our country.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 11/11 @ 3:35 pm #
Man, almost 24 years now… Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina, 1993 Mississippi Floods…I have trouble remembering what is it like not being part of the National Guard, USAR or active Army. On the whole, I think the service has improved me.
So I am grateful to the Nation (and all of you reading this) for giving me the chance to defend this idea, this place, this America of ours.
Comment by kelly on 11/11 @ 3:50 pm #
Thank you to all vets. Just got back from vet memorial dedication ceremony on campus at my alma mater. Very cool. Again, thanks, everyone.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 11/11 @ 4:18 pm #
Oh, and John Kerry? Kindly bug off, would ya?
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/11 @ 4:49 pm #
Thank you to all who have served or are serving this wonderful country. You’re truly the best.
Comment by JD on 11/11 @ 5:00 pm #
OI - It was great to meet you. I was able to meet up with alppiccino for a bit on the way home. You are both a credit to Ohio. The rest of the state that voted for that dirty socialist wanker could learn from you.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/11 @ 5:19 pm #
Thanks, JD. It was great to meet you, too. Al lives in a solidly red area, so the loss is more on him. LOL…My area was in the bag for the wannabe the whole time. Next time, you’re in town, you’ll have to drag Al up to the “big city” and we can hang out and make him make us laugh. Glad to see you made it home safely.
Comment by JD on 11/11 @ 5:23 pm #
Bumperstickerist - I was a 208 in Arabic.
Tim @ #1 hit the nail on the head.
Comment by JD on 11/11 @ 5:28 pm #
OI - still in the car. Keep fighting the good fight from inside the belly of yhe beast, racist. Folks, that OI is one solid person.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/11 @ 5:48 pm #
No, JD is the solid person. He bought me lunch! Thanks again, JD and drive SAFELY!
Comment by Dave Surls on 11/11 @ 6:15 pm #
Thanks to all our veterans, and also to those who are currently serving.
Our military people have always led the way in protecting our freedoms, and even more importantly to my mind, in upholding the honor of our nation.
We can never repay the debt we owe you. All we can do is acknowledge it. You were and are the best of us, and may God bless you all this day, and every day.
Comment by Rusty on 11/11 @ 8:27 pm #
Thank you Major.
And everybody else who has worn or wears our nations uniform.
Comment by EW on 11/12 @ 12:20 am #
I don’t get Obama military strategy. The liberal illuminati have made it sound like Obama is going to take of this military problem, slowly pulling troops out but what is he really going to do? I gues we will see.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/12 @ 6:19 pm #
I have my grandfather’s footlocker. I use it as a coffee table (after the L&NW and Michigan Central have manhandled it there is nothing I could do to harm it). It still has, very clear, on the top:
“Royal Flying Corps. Flight Lieut. F.R. Orris”
On the inside is the address of the next of kin, my great-grandfather.
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