VETERANS DAY SALUTE
Where do I begin with the gratitude for the veterans who served this land in one way or another. Let's start with the obvious, the current troops serving right now. First, to the US Marines in Fallujah, may God protect and shield you guys as you take the war on terrorism from our streets back to the lairs of these vermin and creatures. My God guide your steps and decisions. Also, God be with Lieutenant Steven P Robertson, who may be or may have already been deployed to Fallujah.
Second, I'd like to thank relatives who served in the military. First, both of my grandfathers, I thank and pray for you both. Grandfather Alfred E Walters served as a private in 4th Infantry Division, under Major General Raymond Barton, who was under General George S Patton from summer 1944 to May 1945, VE Day. Walters was drafted right out of Enid Oklahoma, he and his brother were shipped out. Alfred Walters served from summer 1944 to spring 1945, when he took ill after campaigns that included: Normandy, Liberation of Paris, Metz, Verdun, The Ardennes- aka Battle of The Bulge, Germany, crossing the Rhine, and into Southern Bavaria and almost to Austria. Along the way many like him liberated towns, destroyed the enemy but also discovered the horror of Hitler's Holocaust. Al got shipped home, married in 1950 and had my dad in 1951. I came around 1978. Thanks Grandpa Alfred for serving and giving me a sense of patriotism and God. To Grandpa Frederick Doyle Bacon, thanks for serving stateside in the arsenal in McAlister, OK. Both of my grandfathers are alive, and I thank them and their generation for serving and volunteering to defend God's People, all of them, regardless of race and country. I would like to thank Adolph Walters for his service in the Pacific, which regretably ended on Luzon in 1944. Adolph was killed in action, re-taking the Phillippines from Japan, in fulfilling General Douglas MacArthur's return to The Phillippines. I pray Adolph and the other 400,000 to 500,000 who laid their lives down are in heaven chatting it up about all kinds of stuff.
Matthew 5:9- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called Sons of God.
History of Veteran's Day:
It was first observed in 1926, in honor of the World War One veterans and the Armistice Day. The WWI Armistice was signed November 11, 1918, at about 11 am. The 11th Hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month. World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Unfortunately, it did not, as Nazi Germany and Japan declared war on us after Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, Sunday at 7:45 am. Veteran's Day has been observed for 78 years, and going.
Let's observe Veteran's Day by saluting our vets, not spitting on them like the current radicals and traitors do. Let's praise them for their service, not pummel them with insults. And let's thank them for their sacrifice, not thumb our noses at them. And let us remember not forget all that has been done.
Remember this quote- "Never in the course of history, has so much been sacrificed by so few for the good of so many."
It was from either Franklin Roosevelt our President in WWII or British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Second, I'd like to thank relatives who served in the military. First, both of my grandfathers, I thank and pray for you both. Grandfather Alfred E Walters served as a private in 4th Infantry Division, under Major General Raymond Barton, who was under General George S Patton from summer 1944 to May 1945, VE Day. Walters was drafted right out of Enid Oklahoma, he and his brother were shipped out. Alfred Walters served from summer 1944 to spring 1945, when he took ill after campaigns that included: Normandy, Liberation of Paris, Metz, Verdun, The Ardennes- aka Battle of The Bulge, Germany, crossing the Rhine, and into Southern Bavaria and almost to Austria. Along the way many like him liberated towns, destroyed the enemy but also discovered the horror of Hitler's Holocaust. Al got shipped home, married in 1950 and had my dad in 1951. I came around 1978. Thanks Grandpa Alfred for serving and giving me a sense of patriotism and God. To Grandpa Frederick Doyle Bacon, thanks for serving stateside in the arsenal in McAlister, OK. Both of my grandfathers are alive, and I thank them and their generation for serving and volunteering to defend God's People, all of them, regardless of race and country. I would like to thank Adolph Walters for his service in the Pacific, which regretably ended on Luzon in 1944. Adolph was killed in action, re-taking the Phillippines from Japan, in fulfilling General Douglas MacArthur's return to The Phillippines. I pray Adolph and the other 400,000 to 500,000 who laid their lives down are in heaven chatting it up about all kinds of stuff.
Matthew 5:9- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called Sons of God.
History of Veteran's Day:
It was first observed in 1926, in honor of the World War One veterans and the Armistice Day. The WWI Armistice was signed November 11, 1918, at about 11 am. The 11th Hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month. World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Unfortunately, it did not, as Nazi Germany and Japan declared war on us after Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, Sunday at 7:45 am. Veteran's Day has been observed for 78 years, and going.
Let's observe Veteran's Day by saluting our vets, not spitting on them like the current radicals and traitors do. Let's praise them for their service, not pummel them with insults. And let's thank them for their sacrifice, not thumb our noses at them. And let us remember not forget all that has been done.
Remember this quote- "Never in the course of history, has so much been sacrificed by so few for the good of so many."
It was from either Franklin Roosevelt our President in WWII or British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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