Re: [ST] Veterans Day

["Mike Benzon" <fast87@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now more than ever, I appreciate your words of wisdom.
My thanks to all you Veterans of war.

Mike Benzon
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From: "Jack Hays" <rude@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <motolist@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <miata@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:52 AM
Subject: [ST] Veterans Day


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> Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a
jagged
> scar, a certain look in the 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 forged 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 vet just by
looking.
>
> What is a vet?
>
> He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Iraq sweating two
gallons
> a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
>
> He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose
> overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic
> scales by four hours of 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 drill instructor that has never seen combat--but has saved
> countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks, city boys/girls,
> and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's
> 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 die 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 others would not have to sacrifice
> theirs.
>
> 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 or
> were 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.
>
> It is the soldier,
> not the poet,
> who has given us freedom of speech.
>
> It is the soldier,
> not the lawyer,
> who has given us the right to a fair trial.
>
> It is the soldier,
> not the politician,
> who has given us the right to vote.
>
> It is the soldier,
> not the campus organizer,
> who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
>
> Let's remember them on Veteran's Day, November 11th.
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> Mikey's Thot for the Day: See above.
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>
> Jack "Rude Dog" Hays
> 972-952-5065
> "I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon"
>
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