Project Valour

by Stix1972 (R-IL) (VRWC) ~ October 31st, 2007. Filed under: Defending America.

I have signed up for the new Project Valour Fundraiser. I have signed up under the Marines, so please give a little to the brave soldiers that are doing their best to keep our country safe and trying to bring peace to Iraq,Afghanistan and all over the world.

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  1. Stix Blog

    Project Valour

    I have signed up for the new Project Valour Fundraiser. I have signed up under the Marines, so please give a little to the brave soldiers that are doing their best to keep our country safe and trying to bring

  2. gary fouse

    My Army Reunion

    This September, I was fortunate to attend the 2nd annual reunion of my old Army unit-the 404th Military Police Company (4th Armored Division). I had served in this unit in Germany from 1966-1968. (It no longer exists.) Everyone who attended (along with their wives) were in their 60s or 70s. We spent a weekend together in Hollywood, Maryland, telling old stories about our good times in Germany (some that cannot be repeated here) and looking over old photos. It was striking to compare our pictures taken back in the 60s, when we were young, strong and in good shape with the way we look now.

    Most of us, like me, only served for two or three years, and though the Viet Nam War was in progress, were sent to Germany instead of Viet Nam. A few of the others were career military, and thus, served a tour of duty in Viet Nam, either before or after their tours in Germany.

    Because we are veterans and because we served during the Viet Nam era, I think each of us had to be thinking of those our age who had gone to Viet Nam and not returned. I knew two from high school who had been killed in Viet Nam, each before their 21st birthday. (I attended the funeral of one of them while I was home on leave from Germany.) I still vist his grave from time to time.

    We also had to be thinking of those who are serving today in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. I know I was. Being back with my old Army buddies could not but reinforce my respect and admiration for those young men and women who are serving in uniform today, especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. When I served, we had the draft; one way or another, I was going to be in the military in those days. Today, there is no such compulsion. A young man or woman can choose to serve or not to serve in uniform. All the more reason to respect those who choose to put on the uniform of our country. They are the best our nation has to offer. It sickens me to think of those elements in our society that denigrate those in uniform or question what they do in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was rampant during Viet Nam, less so today, but still present in places such as college campuses. It is a disgrace.

    My three-day reunion reinforced my belief that my country, with all its faults, is still the greatest country on earth-largely due to our military.

    God bless them all.

    gary fouse
    fousesquawk

  3. Chad T. (Teddy Bear) Everson (GGR-MN)

    Gary,

    Bless you for your service and for all those who sacrificed even onto death so that we can be sitting in our warm homes and chasing socialist squirrels around instead of working in hunger, poverty and slavery.

    It is really an amazing country and even more so, those people who are here, are blessed and special. I hate the way we have let down the generations since the 60’s. Yet, I like you am confident in our resiliance. I have worked with children these last three years inspiring them with the wonders of clay. I see in them a confident talented lot that with the opportunity will do us all proud. Although, we are at the age, I am 38, that we must not let those generations that laid down their lives for us down. We must take back our institutions, our government, and our backyards as only we can.

    Stix, you are a good man! Way to step into action!

    Great post!

    I am blessed to be surrounded by such great men and women as we have here in the Grizzly Groundswell. I am humbled.

    ~Teddy Bear

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