[MLN1963]

YouTube - Ragged Old Flag

YouTube - Ragged Old Flag

[Marine4TheKing]

MLN1963, Thanks for the awsome video!

[LarryO1970]

... wouldn't it be nice to have a Marine in the White House ?

[Marine4TheKing]

Quote:       Originally Posted by larryo1970

... Wouldn't it be nice to have a marine in the white house ?

" they can't handle the truth" a few good men.

[SwedeSteve]

Isaiah 6:8 "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us"? And I said "Here am I ! Send me "!!


I kneel before my God and pray for peace for our mighty Nation. Then stand tall, and prepare to serve in her defense !!

[CalifgirlinOk]

THANK YOU...!!!

[99dragon]

Did my time and damn proud of it! Damn proud of those that are doing it now and have done it in the past!
1st Infantry Division (Forward) - "No mission to difficult, no sacrifice to great, DUTY FIRST!"
299th Support Battalion -"On call to serve!"
552nd Artillery Group - "Mission and Teamwork!"
59th Ord Brigade - "Mission Accomplished!" and "Proud to serve, Power to spare!"
205th Infantry Brigade (Arctic Light) - "Guardians of the Great Land!"
85th Infantry Division - "Steadfast and Loyal!"
That covers most of my military history.

[mission_striker]

I have no immediate family in the military, extended family but they're still deployed. If I still get a chance I'm going a little later to a military museum.

[LarryO1970]

Quote:       Originally Posted by 99dragon

Did my time and damn proud of it! Damn proud of those that are doing it now and have done it in the past! 1st Infantry Division (Forward) - "No mission to difficult, no sacrifice to great, DUTY FIRST!" 299th Support Battalion -"On call to serve!" 552nd Artillery Group - "Mission and Teamwork!" 59th Ord Brigade - "Mission Accomplished!" and "Proud to serve, Power to spare!" 205th Infantry Brigade (Arctic Light) - "Guardians of the Great Land!" 85th Infantry Division - "Steadfast and Loyal!" That covers most of my military history.

10th SPS, (March, 1994) deployed to NAS Brindisi, Italy in support for the war in Yugoslavia (Sniper Alley, Sarajevo) with AC-130 gunships and MH53J Pave Lows...

96th SPS, (May, 1996) deployed to Dhahran, S.A. (Khobar Towers) in 1996, losing 19 Airmen in a terrorist attack while supporting Operation Southern Watch.

1st SPS (September, 2001) in support of the Air Defense mission directly after September 11th 2001.

RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, (2002) supported the build up for missions in Iraq @ missions in Afghanistan.

... still serving, looking forward to the next playground.

Larry O

[TACAV]

THE OLD MAN NEXT DOOR
By Pete Lessler

Hey little boy with the ball and the bat,
Do you know the old man next door?
With badges and pins on his funny old hat
You think he is just an old bore.

Now he sits in his garden with flowers and ants,
But way back before you were born,
He was once young and tough, calling anyone’s bluff,
He was a Devil in green baggy pants!

He leapt into space with a cork-blackened face
And a prayer that his chute wouldn’t streamer.
And when he touched down, on the enemy’s ground,
He fought like a wild Screaming Eagle.

Or…did he starve in the jungle, in the steaming green hell
Of Guadalcanal, when things weren’t going well?
Did he crouch in the darkness, his fear growing large
Waiting for the screaming Japanese banzai charge?

Hey little boy, pull over your bike,
Do you know that old man over there?
Was he crew on the Queen - Boeing’s B-17 -
As it fought its way through the cold air?

Seeing his brothers by the hundreds die –
As the Luftwaffe shot them out of the sky.
Did he never turn back, though Kraut fighters and flak
Were more than his courage could bear?

Did he dive from the sun in a P-51
Exulting in the loud roaring thunder
Of his full-throttle Merlin, and fifty-cal guns
As they tore German fighters asunder?

Did he fly all alone over the vast Pacific blue,
Praying to God that his days were not through?
Searching in fear for the steel postage stamp
On whose heaving deck he was praying to trap.
Praying, you see, for his aircraft was failing
From a hot Zero pilot’s 20-millimeter nailing.

Hey little boy, do you see that he limps?
Does that seem kind of strange to you?
Does his leg carry metal
From a Japanese mortar, or a German MG42?

Or was it the cold in a winter of old
That blackened and claimed all his toes?
Did he freeze to the bone in a town called Bastogne
Giving Hitler a bad bloody nose?

Or was it Korea, holding off a defeat
Was he there with the US Marine Corps?
In the Chosun retreat, on frost-bitten feet
Helping Chesty to guard the back door.

Hey little boy on your way to the store -
Do you know that old man over there?
Does his soul bear the scars of his days in a war?
Did he break down and cry when his best buddy died?
Does he still have the thousand-yard stare?

Hey little boy, take pause in your plans
Do you know the old man next door?
Does he still wake up screaming from nightmares he’s dreaming
Of brothers in arms who’ve all bought the farm,
And the blood he can’t wash off his hands?

Hey little boy, do you KNOW the old man next door?

[Rave]

Dam! That's a tear jerker,mine.

[SwedeSteve]

Nice one !!

[TomcatPC]

Hello

I'd like to say Thank You to all my fellow Veterans as well, here is the United States and other Allied Nations as well. I Served in a Fighter Squadron in the early 1990s, I don't think I did anything extra-ordinary when compared to my Dad's Generation from WWII. But, I still think just the fact of having Served has played a major part in my life, as well as being a bond between others who otherwise I might not have much in common (did that make sense?).

And, being a late product of the WWII Generation, I grew up calling 11 Nov. "Armistice Day" instead of Veterans Day, I still do today, maybe everyday ought to be Veterans Day?
Thank You
Mark

[SwedeSteve]

I live every day so that all my children will remember the Old Army Grunt as someone who truly cared !! My grandchildren bought me a simple rose today, and I cried like a simple child !! Not as much for those I lost. But for those who will surely follow !!