Veterans Day/Remembrance Day 2011

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's almost sad in a way that there is only a couple of times a year we really think about those people that have put and still put their lives on the line for all of us, and they do it every minute of every day.

I would like to take the time this morning just to say thank you, to all the soldiers past and present, and to all the families of the soldiers, of all the brave young men and women, that sacrifice so much just so that we may live in peace and safety. So we can enjoy all the freedoms that so many of us just take for granted.

Thank you, now and always and please be safe out there.

1. We make war that we may live in peace. -Aristotle

2. Nobody ever drowned in sweat. -US Marines

3. Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers. -Aristotle

4. More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. -Unknown

5. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

6. Many become brave when brought to bay. -Norwegian proverb

7. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. -George S. Patton

8. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -Unknown

9. Either war is obsolete or men are. -Buckminster Fuller

10. There never was a good war or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin

11. Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself. -Jean Dubuffet

12. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. -Elmer Davis

13. Freedom is never free. -Author Unknown

14. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. -Michel de Montaigne

15. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. -Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

16. In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -Mark Twain

17. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. -George Bernard Shaw

18. It is not only the living who are killed in war. -Isaac Asimov

19. Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. -Irving Berlin

20. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -Ronald Reagan

21. Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. -Napoleon Bonaparte

22. “Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.” -Lyn Yutang

23. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. -George Patton

24. I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. -Gary Hart

25. Have the courage to act instead of react. -Earlene Larson Jenks

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the lost and fallen

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[Jezter]

Your veterans get my deepest respect and admiration.

[MrsM]

Col. John McCrae - I've been to the home where he was born

[Muddy]

I personally thanked 3 veterans today.

[Hal-9000]

We get a little mad that we have to work on this day, it's a company decision.I think out of all the statutory holidays that this one should be the most important.

Then I think...it's because those people sacrificed and gave their lives, that I get to enjoy freedoms like choosing a job and having holidays.




Thank you to all the veterans who fought, so I don't have to.