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11-11-2012, 09:00 AM
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|  Happy Veterans Day + Quotes.
First, Happy Veterans day to all who gave a portion if not all of their lives for this great nation and our freedom.
Thank you!!
The land of the free because of the brave.
Coz
Now, to show our appreciation for your service and sacrafice the rest of us can reply with some of our most favorite patriotic quotes.
Coz
Disclaimer:
Do not consume these thoughts or ideas if you have a history of high blood pressure, heart problems, tendency to get your panties in a bunch, mangina issues, no sense of humor, realization that you need to wear a tin foil hat, lick glass, want to cry like a sissy or still live with your mom.
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11-11-2012, 09:00 AM
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"As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free," - The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Disclaimer:
Do not consume these thoughts or ideas if you have a history of high blood pressure, heart problems, tendency to get your panties in a bunch, mangina issues, no sense of humor, realization that you need to wear a tin foil hat, lick glass, want to cry like a sissy or still live with your mom.
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11-11-2012, 10:57 AM
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Hi...
"Give me liberty or give me death"...Nathan Hale.
"We must all hang together, or we most surely will hang separately"...author ?
"Who put that burr under my saddle"?...Paul Revere.
"One if by land, two if by sea, and three if by interstate"...author unknown.
And a very special 'thank you' to all Veterans who helped keep our Country free.
Many chain restaurants also have specials and/or free meals for Veterans on their day. Red Lobster is the only one that comes to mind...although there are MANY more across the U.S.
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." Seneca | 
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11-11-2012, 11:46 AM
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"You have never lived, till you have almost died. And for those who fight for it, life has a flavor that the protected will never know."
Anonymous
(Graffitti on a sign at a command post at Khe Sanh, Republic of Vietnam)
Efficiency: When in doubt, empty your magazine!
"If you become involved in a crisis situation, you will not rise to the occasion but, rather, default to your level of training." | |
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11-11-2012, 12:39 PM
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"I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,
A tree that looks at God all day and lifts its leafy arms to pray.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."
-- Written by Joyce Kilmer, a British soldier, from his WWI trench looking out over the bombed-out wastes of no-man's land, no tree in sight
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11-11-2012, 01:34 PM
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"It is the Soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."
- Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
Thanks to all of our soldiers, past, present and future! 
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11-11-2012, 05:48 PM
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Thanks to all! Our grand-kid sent out a video text to everyone in the family who is a vet and it brightened everyone's day. Nothing is more cute than seeing a little one utter just a few quick words and then going off into a spiel about how they learned about our vet's this past week in school too.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde | |
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11-11-2012, 09:08 PM
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one of my favorites
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11-11-2012, 09:55 PM
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"I Have not yet begun to fight" when asked to surrender to the HMS Serapis. John Paul Jones. He and his men did fight and eventually the Serapis surrendered.
Ben Franklin gets the credit for the hang together quote.
Spending time with children is more important than spending money on them. (Don't know who said it but I like it)
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
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11-11-2012, 10:10 PM
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"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace²but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Source: Wirt, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry . (Philadelphia) 1836, as reproduced in The World's Great Speeches, Lewis Copeland and Lawrence W. Lamm,
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Anonymous | |
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