By Admin (Admin) (65.80.157.101) on Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 01:51 pm:

IT’S THE SOLDIER

It's the soldier, not the reporter
who has given us freedom of the press.

It's the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It's the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

It's the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves under the flag and
whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who gives the protestor the right to burn the flag.

~~ Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

By Donna Lumsden (Ladymadonna) (80.225.62.192) on Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 05:12 am:

These posts are excellent. Also like the review of Veterans speaking in the eps and the opening scenes. I was commenting the other day how I've watched BOB so many times I can pretty much name all the episodes the opening credit scenes come from. Well done on taking the time to put it all down!

Donna

By JANE Southern England (Jane) (195.93.33.186) on Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 11:06 pm:

a poem I found...

A Soldier's Burial..by George S. Patton

Not midst the chanting of the Requiem Hymn,
Nor with the solemn ritual of prayer,
Neath misty shadows from the oriel glass,
And dreamy perfume of the incensed air
Was he interred,

But the subtle stillness after fight,
And the half light between the hight and the day,
We dragged his body all besmeared with mud,
And dropped if, clod-like, back into the clay,

Yet who shall say that he was not content,
Or missed the prayers, or drone of chanting choir,
He who had heard all day the Battle Hymn,
Sung on all sides by thousand throats of fire,

What pointed glass can lovelier shadows cast
Than those the evening skies shall ever shed,
While, mingled with their light, Red Battles Sun,
Completes in magic colors o'er our dead
The flag for which they died.

..General George Patton had an auto accident in Germany, in early December 1945, in which he broke his neck..a lung clot developed while he was asleep...he was buried December 24th at the American Cemetery at Hamm, Luxembourg.


Jane (southern England)

By Jonathan Jones (Jonjones) (62.7.106.80) on Saturday, September 07, 2002 - 07:36 pm:

The sentiments of the opening posting remind me of the words that Jack Nicholson uses in a "Few Good Men", when he points out that "freedom" has to be defended by walls and men to man the walls.

Regards to All

Jonathan

By Edina Varga (Vargalipton) (62.77.240.179) on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 09:13 am:

Helló! Van itt valahol az éterben egy magyar, vagy kettõ? Ha van és szintén Elit Alakulat rajongó akkor írjon: vargalipton@freemail.hu

By Michael Aaron Secretan (Righty) (24.76.236.208) on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 06:33 pm:

wow...

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