Conscripting an army of free men, America deployed 2 million troops to save Europe from a Prussian military machine that was the world's best - until they hooked up with the Great Satan in combat. Places like Chateau-Thierry and Bellau Wood decisively crushed Teutonicism. Deutschland screamed "GOD! PLEASE! STOP!"
An extensive remixed v2.0 released 27 years later as Veteran's Day.
Americans should go down on their knees and thank God Almighty for raising up this laughing race of freemen.
Americans energetically pursue commerce, science, medicine, technology and the arts. When these designs are halted by conflict, they energetically pursue absolute, decisive, and ruthless destruction of their enemies. After visiting violence and securing victory they energetically return to the pursuit of commerce, science, medicine, technology and the arts.
An excellent example of the concept of service to something larger than self became a personal epiphany 2 years ago, at an especial place and a chance meeting with an ancient Iwo Jima survivor.
17 yo, still on the farm when the horrible news came that the neighbor boy had just been killed in Italy. Staring sacrifice in the face, this living embodiment of American Exceptionalism had to take his homie's "... place in the line..." Ma and Pa agreed and the preacher drove him to Nashville to enlist. Less than a year later, this Marine fought in place in the line at the hallowed bloodsoaked Iwo Jima.
His name is legion, for there are thousands like him. From Bunker Hill to Chickamauga, from Midway to Fallujah.
America's veterans put their lives on hold, deploy overseas, incinerate our enemies, return home and continue to build this awesome place.
America and the world can never thank ya'll enough.
Pic - "Thank You All" by ScOtT dUnGaN
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This Vietnam veteran thanks you for a great piece.
In 1964 my senior Drill Instructor earned the Silver Star on an ugly place called Kwajalein. My Dad was one of Silent Lew Walt's Corporals, later, long after Dad was a civilian again he wrote to General Walt and told him that his own baby boy was now one of Walt's PFCs. funny, a while later Silent Lew himself pinned on my own Corporal's chevrons and mentioned that he remembered my old man.
I'm not much myself, just a tired old man now but once, yes, once I stood with heroes.
Those midwatches rocked....
I hear that there's a Cold War medal in the works. Wouldn't it be cool if it had real gold in it like the KSM I got from Kuwait? It's the only medal I have that's written in arabic.
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