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A memorium in pictures to the fallen, to the boys who don’t come home.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 1:30 am
Posted on 5/28/18 at 1:30 am
Lexington and Concord
The war of 1812
The Alamo
Gettysburg
Spanish American war
WW1
D-Day
Korea
Vietnam
Iraq
Afghanistan
Arlington
WW1 graveyard
Normandy
The wind blows silent through solemn fields, ere the break of day,
Where crickets chirp a nocturne in these places war dead lay,
Endless rows of markers hewn from alabaster stone,
These testaments to honor, all the boys who don’t come home,
Brave men who picked the rifle up, set down their tool or plow,
To answer true their country’s call, only a mem’ry now,
Sometimes they fell on native soil, sometimes in foreign lands,
To gun or bomb or bayonet, their blood stained dirt and sand,
With courage and with duty did they face the weary end,
So those of us back home could remain with kith and kin,
Now bugles play a funeral dirge, o’er crosses, stars and stones,
And falling tears remind us of the boys who don’t come home,
They did not ask the reason that they made their sacrifice,
They did not ask the cost although, they surely paid the price,
Let their names not be forgotten, or their stories left untold,
Their memories should warm us though their blood has long grown cold,
For all we’ve built is stacked upon the mounds of revered dead,
It’s writ in eyes of brothers who are left here in their stead,
So give those that have paid the tab, wherever you may roam,
A toast, in gratitude, to all the boys who don’t come home.
The Green Fields of France
The war of 1812
The Alamo
Gettysburg
Spanish American war
WW1
D-Day
Korea
Vietnam
Iraq
Afghanistan
Arlington
WW1 graveyard
Normandy
The wind blows silent through solemn fields, ere the break of day,
Where crickets chirp a nocturne in these places war dead lay,
Endless rows of markers hewn from alabaster stone,
These testaments to honor, all the boys who don’t come home,
Brave men who picked the rifle up, set down their tool or plow,
To answer true their country’s call, only a mem’ry now,
Sometimes they fell on native soil, sometimes in foreign lands,
To gun or bomb or bayonet, their blood stained dirt and sand,
With courage and with duty did they face the weary end,
So those of us back home could remain with kith and kin,
Now bugles play a funeral dirge, o’er crosses, stars and stones,
And falling tears remind us of the boys who don’t come home,
They did not ask the reason that they made their sacrifice,
They did not ask the cost although, they surely paid the price,
Let their names not be forgotten, or their stories left untold,
Their memories should warm us though their blood has long grown cold,
For all we’ve built is stacked upon the mounds of revered dead,
It’s writ in eyes of brothers who are left here in their stead,
So give those that have paid the tab, wherever you may roam,
A toast, in gratitude, to all the boys who don’t come home.
The Green Fields of France
This post was edited on 5/28/18 at 1:41 am
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Posted on 5/28/18 at 1:35 am to fr33manator
It’s crazy that they died before knowing how the battle turned out.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 1:36 am to fr33manator
RIP Lewis Armistead
Thank you for your service in the Civil War, Gettysburg
Thank you for your service in the Civil War, Gettysburg
Posted on 5/28/18 at 1:42 am to fr33manator
Posted on 5/28/18 at 1:50 am to fr33manator
RIP
Daniel Ingram Britton
Charles Raines Fancher
Eustace Reid Shannon
Daniel Ingram Britton
Charles Raines Fancher
Eustace Reid Shannon
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:18 am to fr33manator
I feel like we can honor them without posting pictures of their dead bodies.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:23 am to Hester Carries
I think that seeing the visceral cost of their sacrifices has more impact.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:27 am to Hester Carries
I understand what you’re saying, but sometimes we can only appreciate the beauty if we’ve witnessed the grim.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:28 am to fr33manator
:usa:
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:02 am to fr33manator
USAF here.
The tomb of the unknown soldier is a MUST for anyone in the DC area today.
The tomb of the unknown soldier is a MUST for anyone in the DC area today.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:46 am to fr33manator
Rest in peace, Lance Corp. Jeremiah Colt Kinchen. Killed in Iraq April 5,2005.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:25 am to fr33manator
Upvote
And what was it all for?
And what was it all for?
Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:51 am to Placebeaux
quote:
And what was it all for?
“If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.”
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Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:52 am to fr33manator
Posted on 5/28/18 at 5:14 am to BRgetthenet
Amen
Posted on 5/28/18 at 5:17 am to Placebeaux
quote:
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
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Homeboy was woke.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 5:48 am to Placebeaux
quote:
And what was it all for?
How about we keep this out of this thread?
Our poli views doesn't change the fact I have a couple dozen ancestors, dating back to french/indian war, that died for this great
country.
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