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<< Veteran's day, important to those of us who served overseas
>in war, should
>be
>important to everyone who has the opportunity to live in
>America. USIGS is
>sponsoring a new Web site which is a Veterans' Registry
><http://www.usigs.org/vet_regi.htm>; Take a look, as with
>all USIGS library
>archives and data - it's free access.
>
>The WW II Memorial in Washington chaired by Kansas veteran
>Bob Dole only
>allows a sentence about the veteran but Bob agreed and the
>Committee will
>allow the sentence to include a Memorial Web Site on the
>veteran - So in
>addition to saying "he was operations officer in the
>'Mystery Division' I
>was
>able to add for an example a Memorial Tribute - see below.
>http://www.usigs.org/library/memorial/mt-l/love.htm
>
>Robert E Lehnherr wrote:
>
>> 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 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 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 Quantico drill instructor who has never
>> seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning
>slouchy,
>> no-account rednecks 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 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 others 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
>> or were awarded.
>>
>> Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".
>>
>> Remember November 11th is Veterans Day
>
>

>>




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Veteran's day, important to those of us who served overseas
>in war, should
>be
>important to everyone who has the opportunity to live in
>America. USIGS is
>sponsoring a new Web site which is a Veterans' Registry
><http://www.usigs.org/vet_regi.htm>; Take a look, as with
>all USIGS library
>archives and data - it's free access.
>
>The WW II Memorial in Washington chaired by Kansas veteran
>Bob Dole only
>allows a sentence about the veteran but Bob agreed and the
>Committee will
>allow the sentence to include a Memorial Web Site on the
>veteran - So in
>addition to saying "he was operations officer in the
>'Mystery Division' I
>was
>able to add for an example a Memorial Tribute - see below.
>http://www.usigs.org/library/memorial/mt-l/love.htm
>
>Robert E Lehnherr wrote:
>
>> 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 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 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 Quantico drill instructor who has never
>> seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning
>slouchy,
>> no-account rednecks 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 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 others 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
>> or were awarded.
>>
>> Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".
>>
>> Remember November 11th is Veterans Day
>
>


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