Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day Re-post

(I wrote this back in 2006 and so far nothing has quite said it as well for me so allow me the re-post for the day. Thank you)

Dear Solder, former soldier or family member,

On this Memorial Day weekend I wanted to take a minute to thank you. I've written two actual letters but I want to use this avenue here to reach out to a larger crowd and say thank you.

I never knew my grandfather. He was killed in WWII and my father never got over it. I make no claims to understanding what any of you go through but I have a small idea of the pain of loss.

And still people serve. And still people care enough about liberty and their country to volunteer to serve and take the risks that walk hand in hand with serving. Thank you.

To the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands, sons, daughters etc. of those who choose to serve, I admire your strength and I say thank you. It's a difficult life made even more difficult when the one you love is sent away. For every birthday or special event you had to spend alone, I thank you and I wish there was something more I could do besides write letters, hang a flag and support you.

I am sorry that there are those in this country who would choose to defile your memories and your missions merely to further their own political agendas. No one likes war, no one likes the chance of going off to fight and possibly die in a foreign land. No one likes it but someone has to do it and you people do while the rest of us get to sit with our loved ones and friends and talk about war.

I wish I had the power to bring you all home, to end the conflict and let you get back to being the people you are that your families and friends love. I was watching the Vietnam veterans before at the Memorial and the tears ran freely for each and every person I saw there rubbing names off the wall. This is what Memorial Day is about and I wanted you to know I haven't forgotten.

I wish I had the power to make sure each and every one of you never wants for anything when your service is over. It sickens me to see soldiers return home and have to worry about adjusting to civilian life again as well as where the money is going to come from. May our politicians wake up and do the right thing by all of you.

It is an amazingly difficult and brave choice to join the service, to volunteer to serve and to put the country before one's own self or family. I watch it on TV and I cry every time. I have nothing but admiration and affection for all of you. Plus a deep sense of gratitude for what you do.

That's all I wanted to say. The words are inadequate but they are the best I can do. To the memory of my grandfather and to everyone who is or has been in some way connected to the US military I say thank you. I thank you, I appreciate you, I respect you, I support you, I honour your memories.

With love and affection,

Kittyn

"If you ever think of me,
think of all your liberties
and recall...
...............some gave all."

(please feel free to trackback to this, let's spread the word)

1. Blessed be the soldiers whose names you may not know.
   For the sacrifices away from loved ones, families and home.
   Blessed be their courage they dip into every day.
   For the strength that they have to keep the American way.
   Blessed be the soldiers that fall in foreign lands.
   For the our land that they died for, defending freedom’s stand.
   Blessed be the survivors, family, kin, and kind.
   Whose loved one is no longer here, but never leaves their mind.
   Blessed be the veterans who return to homeland soil
   For everything they gave, their hardships, and their toils.
   Blessed be the soldiers whose names you may not know.
   O’er the ramparts they watched, the dawn’s early glow.

   Mare Martell Stotler  on  05/31  at  10:37 PM

2. Boycott Target? Kurtlar Vadisi Filistin
   Yeah, I heard about it, of course. Flatcast Tema I’m not playing though, even though I’m not terribly fond of Target because a lot of their stuff is the same old junk Walmart has. KVF Fan
   That being said, I agree with you, there IS political Yavuztürk
   bandwagon-hopping going on, if you ask me. kiral oyun
   I’m all for a good kurtlar vadisi final bölümü izle
   cause or a good boycott, but come O

   Kurtlar Vadisi Filistin İzle  on  07/31  at  08:05 PM
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