"Of the four wars in my lifetime,
none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
- Ronald Reagan
Today we stop to thank the men and woman of the United States military who have always been there to defend the very umbrella of liberty that we as a nation prosper under. Nothing in this great country would be here if a tiny minority of our citizens were not willing to, as a quote from a movie once said, “pick up a weapon and stand a post”.
As our government struggles with out-of-control spending that threatens to bankrupt our country, the progressives always try to balance their social spending with cuts to defense spending. The end result of this is that we send our sons and our daughters off to fight wars under-equipped and under-trained for the missions at hand. From Manassas in the Civil war to Corregidor in WWII to Pusan Perimeter in Korean to Black Hawk down in Somalia, American combat forces have died because of a lack of resolution of Americas to fund our military at the levels required to carry out what our elected official’s demand of them.
Let us never forget the sacrifice of the American fighting man and let us resolve to always pressure our government to maintain the best trained and best equipped fighting force on earth.
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported for Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” - John Adams
"Mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions." - 1 Chronicles 12:8
"Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn." - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." –Ronald Reagan.
"He which hath no stomach to this fight let him depart. But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!! For today, he that sheds his blood with me shall always be my brother.” - William Shakespeare
Thank you to all Veterans past and present
and a special thanks to CAAT Black of the 2/2 Marines.
