4th of July

 

SEEMS WE DON’T SAY IT ENOUGH – SO, I’M TRYING TO FIX THAT RIGHT HERE – GOD BLESS THE USA!!!

 

We can rant, we can complain and we can thank the troops for giving us the right to do so!  Today we celebrate our country’s birthday, traditional BBQ’s, fireworks, family and friends, we have a day off and have a ball!  – and to who do we owe it all?  You guessed it_____

 

God Bless Our Troops

 THE SOLDIER’S POEM

When this is over

And we come home again,

Forget the band

And cheers from the stand;

Just have the things

Well in hand –

The things we fought for.

UNDERSTAND?

_____Pfc C.G. Tiggas

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ONLY A SAILOR

He’s only a sailor on the boundless deep,

Under foreign skies and tropical heat.

Only a sailor on the rolling deep,

In summer rain and winter sleet.

____from Anna @ Maiden on the Midway

The moving photographs are courtesy of Don Edrington and netanimations.net.

SO – HAVE FUN, STAY SAFE and BE HAPPY !!

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Farewell Salutes – 

Alfred Bouchard – Manchester, NH; USMC, Master Gunnery SGT., Korea and Vietnam

Eugene Butkevich – Brooklyn, NY & W.PalmBch, FL; USMC, WWII and Korea

Arthur “Dick” Clark – Mount Vernon, IL; US Army, Korea

Albert John Edward – NZ; RNZ Army # 14148507, Lance Cpl, pilot

William Gentry – Washington DC; USMC (Ret.), Lt.Colonel

Donald Haskell – Goffstown, NH; US Army, WWII, ETO, medic

Clifford Jones Jr. – Boynton Bch, FL; US Army, Korea

Carmen Edward Mercadante – Amsterdam, NY; US Army, WWII, ETO

Delton Pate – Antlers, OK; US Army Air Corps,127th Engineers, B Co., WWII, PTO

George Rankin – Wichita, KS & W.Palm Bch, FL; US Air Force, Captain, Vietnam

Clarence Wright – Clarksville, TN; US Air Force, MSgt., Korea

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