Winners and Losers
June 13th, 2007 by Patriot
This was forwarded to me by CJ to read, not post. But, since he isn't around to post it, I will because it is relative:
“O beautiful for heroes proved,
in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life…”
- O Beautiful for Spacious Skies, Katharine L Bates, 1904I visited my Father this Memorial Day weekend. Along with siblings and wives, we cleaned the grass clippings from the headstone bearing his name and my Mother’s. We also cleaned the clippings from the Veteran’s plaque at the foot of the grave, added some fresh flower decorations and flags. Small American flags dotted the cemetery, each of them marking the resting place of a Veteran. The cemetery caretakers place them there. A small, solitary flag is all that marked some graves. Maybe their visitors would come later in the day.
I have a challenge for you. Maybe you can offer it to your favorite politician as well. Name a war in which the winners decided that it was ended. Having trouble? The Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, or maybe World War II? In each of them, it was the loser’s surrender that ended it.
Read the whole thing to find out where J.D. Pendry is going with this.
Posted in Military Perspective
Pendry is awesome!
Patriot, First, thank you, for forwarding a message from CJ. Please send him a message just thanking him from the rest of us, GRUMPY OLD VETS. I really do not want to intrude on his extended "coffee break", he has served this nation in many ways, including this blog. In many ways you're helping many of the older vets, before they start "pushing the daisies". Patriot, I'll leave this to your judgement, you know much more than I, and that's the way it should be.
Thank you,
Grumpy