Memorial Day!!!

[ddnene]

This Memorial Day weekend, please take a moment to remember those who died for our freedoms... and their families!!!
God Bless America

 

[sisters3]

Indeed! God Bless them all!

 

[Manydogs]

RAGGED OLD FLAG

I walked through a county courthouse square,
On a park bench an old man was sitting there.
I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down."
He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town."
I said, "Your flagpole has leaned a little bit,
And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it.
He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down.
"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"
I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag,
But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing _Oh Say Can You See_.
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams."

"And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on through.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag."

"On Flanders Field in World War I
She got a big hole from a Bertha gun.
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp and low by the time it was through.
She was in Korea and Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam."

"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,
And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.
In her own good land she's been abused --
She's been burned, dishonored, denied and refused."

"And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land.
And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin,
But she's in good shape for the shape she's in.
'Cause she's been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more."

"So we raise her up every morning,
Take her down every night.
We don't let her touch the ground
And we fold her up right.
On second thought I DO like to brag,
'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

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Written by Johnny Cash

 

[Chunky White]

 

[rjisaterp]

I always remember my brothers and sisters in arms and the ultimate sacrifice they gave to allow us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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[tigertanktoo]

Thank you.

 

[tigertanktoo]

RAGGED OLD FLAG

"Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

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Written by Johnny Cash

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that.

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This Memorial Day weekend, please take a moment to remember those who died for our freedoms... and their families!!!
God Bless America

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Thank you.

 

[anatess]

My Filipino soldier grandpa died in the Philippines on WWII fighting with the Americans against the Japanese. They were on the shore when a Japanese battleship passed through the channel. They have never seen a battleship before so they all flocked to the beach forming a line to hold off whoever was going to descend from the ship. They didn't realize the Japanese don't have to descend the ship - they just pointed the ship's guns at the beach and killed my grandpa's entire platoon. My mother was only 3 years old when my grandpa died.