THIS IS FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAS AND IS SERVING OUR COUNTRY>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

This is a repost from Bandido Diablo 1%er, Thanks Diablo for reminding us.


Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged
scar, a certain look in his eye.

Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a
piece of shrapnel in the leg-or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's
ally forget in the refinery of adversity.

Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no
badge or emblem.

You can't tell a Veteran just by looking.

He is the biker who spent 1 year in Saudi Arabia sweating two
gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of
fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber then five wooden planks, whose overgrown
frat boy behavior is outweighed in the cosmic scales by four hours exquisite
bravery near the 38th parallel.

She -or he- is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing
every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another- or didn't come
back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat- but has saved
countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account people into
U.S. Marines, and teaching them to watch each others backs.

He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a
prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at
the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the
anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or
in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket- palsied now and
aggravatingly slow- who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all
day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being- a person who offered
some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who
sacrificed his ambitions so other would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing
more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest
nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean
over and say Thank You.

That's all most people need, and in most cases it will
mean more than any medals they could have been awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.

its
is the soldiers, 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.

its is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, and whose
coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protestor to burn the flag.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SACRIFICE AND SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY












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