OT - Veteran’s Day

[slesh]

Want to give a special shoutout to all active and retired military. Thank you for your service and protecting this great nation of ours!

I came across this charity and bought one of their bracelets. All proceeds go towards providing Vets in need with service dogs.

The Hero Company

Whether you are a veteran, an active duty service member, a first responder and/or simply a person who supports men and women of service, our products are for you!

theherocompany.co

 

[pupu]

 

[PST_Dyno]

Hooyah.

 

[Vanguards]

Now this is a good thread.

 

[carnivor]

Thank you for your patriotism sir!

 

[69cyclerider]

Thanks to all that have served, are serving and the ones that will serve !!!

God Bless you all and God Bless America !!

 

[solarsentinel1]

Oorah!

The spirit of American Warriors in their own words:

Martin Treptow—left his job in a smalltown barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.

We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, "MyPledge," he had written these words:

“America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.”

Sullivan Ballou Letter​

July 14, 1861
Camp Clark, Washington

My very dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days — perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more …

I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans on the triumph of the Government and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution.

And I am willing — perfectly willing — to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt …
Sarah my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me unresistibly on with all these chains to the battle field.