"All gave some,
Some gave all"
VETERANS and MEMORIAL
DAY
"All gave
some,
Some gave all"
USO -- Sent with love to our military
http://www.uso.org/
Dear Soldier, Thank You For Caring ( seen better
with "select all" )
http://www.carol8444.com/myweb/new_page_26.htm
Number of deaths ....
weep and pray
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20061228_3000FACES_TAB1.html
Letters from the Fallen
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/25dead.web.html
12,000 US soldiers under NATO command
in Afghanistan -- Oct. 15, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061005/ap_on_re_as/afghan_nato_13
Notice: no mention of nationalities of soldiers; just
"NATO" ( irresponsiblity in war; no accountability ) --
Oct. 26, 2006
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-26-voa14.cfm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1932279,00.html
No victory in Afghanistan http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1926820,00.html
101 Airborne --It's the Veteran who gave us
freedom
http://www.kfdi.com/get/operationiraq/page7.asp
Biometric ID for US military -- Oct.
27, 2006
Freeland, WA, USA, October 26, 2006 -- The
United States Military Central Command is deploying soldiers to
Iraq with the latest technology in biometric security to secure
their personal and private information. Commanders at CENTCOM are
distributing the BioCert(r) ClipBio(tm) Pro 1GB fingerprint flash
drives to soldiers being deployed to Iraq.
US Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines and other
coalition forces are using the ClipBio Pro as shown on
the BioCert(r) ClipBio Pro Website to secure their personal
communications with their families, personal files, create,
store and email documents and to store confidential information
all protected with their fingerprints. The BioCert ClipBio Pro is
designed to secure up to 1Gigabyte of information with a simple
swipe of your finger.
Unlike previous generations, today's soldiers have the ability to
communicate from the field via the Internet with their families
through the use of email, video email and other high tech methods
on a regular basis. In years past, these messages from loved ones
in the battlefield used to take months to get from a combat zone
to the recipient. Now they take nano-seconds.
Todays soldier can carry everything they need to do everything
they would normally do with a PC, all in under 2 ounces - in the
palm of their hand for under a hundred dollars. Members of every
branch of service are carrying their ClipBio Pro with them in the
field." claims James Childers - CEO of Artemis Solutions
Group, makers of the BioCert ClipBio Pro Flash Drives
but also to conduct other personal business such as balancing the checkbook, budgeting, checking
or repairing their credit report, online banking
and all of the other activities that they would perform on their
PC at home.
http://press.xtvworld.com/article14975.html
PATRIOTIC SONGS
http://www.usflag.org/songs.html
Battle Hymn of the Republic-"Mine Eyes
Have Seen the Glory of the Coming of the Lord"
written by Julia Ward Howe
http://www.contemplator.com/america/battle.html
also at http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/h/bhymnotr.htm
More Patriotic Songs: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/musicpatriot.htm
Pledge of Allegiance
“I
pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.”
http://www.flagday.org/Pages/StoryofPledge.html
UN blue
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck110102.shtml
On the Net:
Veterans Affairs: http://www.va.gov
Updates http://www.va.gov/dva.htm
Korean
Veterans
http://www.kwva.org/
http://www.nps.gov/kwvm/home.htm
http://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib6k.htm
36,000 Americans lost their lives
http://www.theforgottenvictory.org/
Viet Nam War:
Who is James N. Rowe ....."Nick" ?
A 5 year POW who loved
freedom more than some Americans during the Sixties
www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/mil/vietnam/konyv/r/rowe_i.html
www.pownetwork.org/bios/r/r077.htm
www.usvetdsp.com/story16.htm
www.nickrowe.com
Veterans and Memorial Day Poetry
http://members.aol.com/usaheroes/memorial.htm
Message from Gen. Richard B. Meyers....Joint Chief of Staff
2004 Richard Myers http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2004/n11102004_2004111002.html
War on Terrorism http://manila.usembassy.gov/wwwhr156.html
2004 Donald Rumsfeld http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2004/n11102004_2004111001.html
Memorial Day History and Information
http://www.usmemorialday.org/
History of Memorial
Day----Waterloo, New York....
1865
http://www.waterloony.com/MemDay.html
Honoring Michael New who
believes in the sovereignty of America
"I am not a U.N. soldier"
http://www.constitutionparty.com/new_v_new_world_order.htm
NWO- IQ...Daniel New http://www.constitutionparty.com/test_your_nwo_iq.htm
Home Page http://www.mikenew.com
Let Us Not forget
http://poetry-emotion.com/Garden_Of_Greetings/letusnotforget.html
They Gave Their Tomorrows
http://www.weezye.com/memday/memorial.html
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The following links honor our American soldiers, living or dead.
POW-MIA's http://aiipowmia.com
and http://www.mmtcnet.com/bmiller/vietnam/mia_pow.htm
Voiceless Veterans
http://www.hackworth.com/25may99.html
Gulf War Vets www.gulfwarvets.com
www.gulfwarvets.com/vetday/vetday.htm
Vets Message Board www.gulfwarvets.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
ANNIE's Memorial Day Page http://www.annieshomepage.com/memorialday.html
Defending America
http://www.hackworth.com/23may00.html
James F Baxter, Veteran of WW2 and Korea
http://www.geocities.com/James-Baxter/biog.htm
JF Baxter Testimony
http://www.geocities.com/James-Baxter/test.htm
Be sure to read J F Baxter 's articles ... they are very good
Earth's Choice Maker Joel 3:
http://www.geocities.com/James-Baxter/
http://www.geocities.com/James-Baxter/index.html
Origins of Veterans Day http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/hspls/veteransday.html
Remember
http://www.vietvet.org/memday.htm
Did you get address labels from the DAV with pentagrams
on them? We did ( March 6, 2007 ).
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Air Force http://www.af.mil
Army http://www2.army.mil
Coast Guard http://www.uscg.mil
Marines http://www.usmc.mil
Merchant Marines http://www.hendersondispatch.com/articles/2005/06/01/news/letters/let02.txt
There were 9,300 Merchant Mariners killed and over 12,000
wounded during World War II. The Merchant Marines
suffered the highest casualty rate of ANY service during
WWII with 1 in 26 Merchant Mariners killed.
As a proud daughter of a Merchant Mariner who participated in the
invasion of Normandy and many more missions I believe we should
honor these brave men as we honor ALL veterans!
http://www.hendersondispatch.com/articles/2005/06/01/news/letters/let02.txt
Merchant Marine
She is pushing a bill -- HR 23 -- dubbed the "Belated
Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II Act of
2005." It would provide the old mariners with a monthly
benefit of $1,000 and allow them to be treated as military
veterans for the purposes of Social Security. That would mean
slightly higher benefits.
If the mariners had the veteran designation, they could have
received $160 more per month since they retired. The average age
of a World War II veteran mariner is 81
http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/braun/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/111742865613780.xml&coll=1
WWII Merchant Marine veterans were responsible for piloting slow
moving cargo vessels, known as Liberty Ships, which transported
the supplies necessary to win the War. Their acts of heroism
delivering oil, gas, ammunitions, food, water, troops and
military equipment across the seven seas, resulted in the highest
casualty rate compared to the U.S. Military branches during WWII.
One of out every twenty-six Merchant Mariner was killed during
the War. They were also the only auxiliary service under the U.S.
War Department to accept servicemen with handicaps and missing
limbs, and had the highest concentration of minority servicemen
Helping MM Vets http://www.house.gov/filner/
More information about World War II Merchant Mariners may be
found by visiting the following URL: http://www.usmm.org/
or by contacting communications director David Splivalo at
408-396-2927.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-30-2005/0003761821&EDATE=
National Guard Bureau http://www.ngb.dtic.mil/
Nat'l Guards First Duty : Supplement the U.S. Military -- May 14,
2007
"Approximately 80 percent of National
Guard and military reservists have served in either Afghanistan
or Iraq since 2001. Some of those reserve component troops have
been deployed more than once. My old battalion commander told me
of an E-9 in Rhode Island who was over ‘there' on his fifth
tour!
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=973520
Navy http://www.navy.mil
Reserves http://snap.myskins.com/infobeat/1999/07/2452.000000.html
Dept. of Transportation:
US Merchant Marine Command http://www.usmm.org/
The American Legion ---- "For God and Country"
World's Largest Veterans Organization
http://www.legion.org/
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends"
John 15:13
from Bill Lane LV, Nevada
Sheryl's Page:
http://www.sherylfranklin.com/holidays/memorial.html
Memorial Day Tribute and Links
http://www.computingcorner.com/holidays/memorial/memorial.htm
An American http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/airforce/wing/warrior-conduct.htm
Articles, Poems ....American Heritage
Library
http://www.constitutional.net/library.html
Don Feder "I AM AN AMERICAN".....
http://familymatters.org/American.htm and at http://www.dadi.org/American.htm
and at:
http://www.skybusiness.com/larsenfamily/index4.html
from Bill Lane LV, Nevada
Thank God I am an American
http://www.jg3.com/roundrobin/tgiaaa.html
Give Me Your Tired Your Poor ....by Emma Lazarus
"The New Colossus" http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/lazaruspoem.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/lazarus.html
http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm
America 2002--- FREEDOM and
LIBERTY
"Freedom" and "Liberty" are now banned from
school... April 20-2002
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27319
"Read This or Be
Assimilated"..... Bob Wallace...April 19-2002
Willingly losing our Freedom
www.lewrockwell.com/wallace/wallace34.html
Dept. of Defense DoD---Sec.
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfield
News etc. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/nationalsecurity/military/
God First, then Country www.GodsStandard.com
http://www.newsbull.com/m.asp?id=421
No more media coverage of returning
coffins--Oct. 21, 2003
To this problem, the Bush administration has found a
simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such
images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers'
homecomings on all military bases.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55816-2003Oct20.html
No coverage of returning dead soldiers
As a result, the president has decided that news
crews will no longer be allowed on military bases where they
might take photographs of the coffins of American soldiers killed
in action.
It is a significant step. It is an ill-advised step.
It is one which will likely hurt the president’s image more
than it will help his message about the progress being made in
Iraq. It might even be an unprecedented step.
George Bush’s feelings toward the press, however, are not
unprecedented; http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101187,00.html
Veterans Hospitals to close--June
6-2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - Veterans
hospitals across the country and the vets they serve will come
under intense scrutiny as officials consider where to cut back
and where to add new services.
In the end, an unknown number of hospitals are likely to close as the Department of Veterans
Affairs shifts its focus to outpatient care and works to bring
services closer to people who need them
While they keep saying they're improving services, they are
drastically cutting services," said Bruce Parry, 55, of
Veterans for Unification, a Chicago advocacy group.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&514&e=12&u=/ap/20020606/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/veterans_health_2
Freedom isn't free. Freedom isn't free.
You've got to pay the price,
You've got to sacrifice
for your liberty.........Song
Eternal Father -- Strong to Save (for all military forces)
Song on the Titanic that fateful day
"O Father, hear us when we pray
For those we love so far away."
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/e/t/eternalf.htm
Memorial
Day
sent by Al and Phyllis Zimmerman
HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE
When you hear the word Waterloo, you probably think of Napoleon's
surrender. There's another Waterloo--in New York--and it's the
birthplace of Memorial Day.
Decoration Day
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/memorial/memorial.html
Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day. It was a
time set aside to honor the nation's Civil War dead by decorating
their graves. Find other interesting historical facts about the
holiday, wars and conflicts, and more.
A moment of remembrance
http://www.remember.gov/
3:00 PM is the national moment of remembrance. The entire nation
will be unified in remembering our fallen veterans. There are
various ways to participate. This site will help you choose a way
to remember.
Celebrate like the old days
http://www.usmemorialday.org/observe.htm
It's okay to have a cookout with family and friends, but don't
forget about why we have this special day. This site suggests
some meaningful ways to honor those who died.
Beautiful yet melancholy
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/ceremonies/originoftaps.html
Taps was first played during the Civil War. It was written by
Union Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield in July 1862.
CONFLICTS -- PAST AND
PRESENT
Americans have lost their lives in many wars and conflicts.
Here's some information on larger conflicts.
Civil War
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
One soldier wrote that soldiering is 99% boredom and 1% sheer
terror.
View an online exhibition and learn more about the Civil War.
The war to end all wars -- World War 1
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm
This excellent encyclopedia provides everything you need to know
about World War I. View a chronology, war statistics and more.
Axis and Allies --World War 2
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp
The National World War II Memorial opened last year. It honors
all Americans who served during the war, including the more than
400,000 who died.
War and pix
http://www.vietnampix.com
It's hard to view pictures of war and not be moved in some way.
Some make you laugh--like seeing soldiers dancing with Raquel
Welch at a USO show. Most are serious.
Gulf War I
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/etc/synopsis.html
It was hard to tear yourself away from CNN during the first Gulf
War. Never before had war been televised like this. There are
some great interviews with the key decision makers at the time.
Gulf War II
http://icasualties.org/oif/
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
AND FINALLY...
Don't forget
http://www.aiipowmia.com/other/hostilechron.html
The above wars and conflicts are the major ones. We've also lost
military personnel in smaller conflicts.
This site ensures those who died are not forgotten.
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