you're soo right <<< Carole >>>


It is so rewarding to thank a Military Man or Woman or a True Honorable Veteran


They are soo appreciative & soo worthy of our love & gratitiude


it is impossible for the emotion to not well up inside and stream out

July has been a terrible month for our Troops ..


please continue to keep them in your daily prayers


& kind thoughts & support them all that you can



The Military justifiably condemned the release of the video of our captured US Soldier

THANK-YOU RAPUNZEL FOR THESE IMPORTANT POSTS
THERE IS NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN PRAYER AND YOU HAVE INSPIRED US TO CONTINUE OUR PRAYERS FOR ALL THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN IN THE MILITARY. GOD BLESS.

prayers and more prayers being sent...

Good Morning Everyone

and thank you so much Dear Lady <<< Daytime >>>

for your kind words, encouragement and prayer

It is important to be ever mindful of our Troops

and thank them daily for protecting Our Freedom



Sometimes no one stops by here & othertimes Veterans come by

and we have also been blessed to have active soldiers stop by

and it always does my heart good for they are always so grateful

thank you <<< nvkikigirl >>> you are so cute & such a sweetheart too

I have bicentennial boy & girl twins your age who were born in 1976

and i have daughter born in 1974 and three Awesome Grandchildren too



I thank God & Our Troops for my Freedom & the Priviledge to bring new life into the world


and i pray that Our Freedom remains intact and is never compromised

wow! sounds like you have such a wonderful family..

and you are such a kind person, always caring for others and posting such beautiful words and pics....


Prayers work....

I have a friend over on mission and I am so pleased every time I hear from him to know he is safe, and I pray for everyone's safety...

I have 2 sons (my oldest son's birthday is 09/11) and I was able to take my youngest last summer to watch the homecoming of a local soldier at the airport...so beautiful to watch him reunited with his family....

Oh Little Sister how sweet and kind you are & so wise too

and thank you for this spiritual boost I needed it

so much going on personally and in my location

& even the strongest and most loving people

the givers of gifts & loving caring souls

need to often recharge our own batteries

and you did a splendid job recharging mine

and helping me to have more faith today

USMC fighting in Afghanistan < " but where is his helmet??? " >

Thank the Lord for our troops. I pray them all the time. They have more honor and bravery than any politician EVER will.

Bless our troops...Pray for our troops daily

"Make every effort to pray from the heart. Even if you do not succeed, in the eyes of the Lord the effort is precious."

Another British soldier killed in Afghanistan

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Another British soldier has been killed in a Taliban bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.

The British Government says the soldier was killed during a patrol in central Helmand province yesterday.

A total of 18 British soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far this month and 187 since the US and Britain invaded the country almost eight years ago.

At least 27 US soldiers have also been killed in the country this month, including four who died in a roadside bomb attack yesterday.


A Soldier's Prayer.

The soldier stood and faced his God
Which must always come to pass...
He hoped his shoes were shining Just as brightly as his brass.
"Step forward now, you soldier, How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek? To My Church have you been true?"
The soldier squared his shoulders and Said,"No, Lord, I guess I ain't...
Because those of us who carry guns Can't always be a saint.
I've had to work most Sundays And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent, Because the streets are awfully tough.
But, I never took a penny That wasn't mine to keep...
Though I worked a lot of overtime When the bills got just too steep,
And I never passed a cry for help, Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me, I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place Among the people here...
They never wanted me around Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here, Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much, But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was a silence all around the throne Where the saints had often trod...
As the soldier waited quietly, For the judgment of his God,
"Step forward now you soldier,
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."

Oh yes , he has done his time in hell

Oh God ..please bless our Soldiers

all of them British, Canadian , French, Australian American

all of our Allies Lord ...I don't even know who they all are

but Please Keep our Soldiers safe

and i pray for the brave souls of those who didn't make it home

and for the Families of those who aren't coming home






Lord God Please Spread your loving hands
over this fair planet & heal our lands

Arlo Guthrie/When A Soldier Makes It Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=WDAl7lGGtSo&feature=related


words and music by Arlo Guthrie

Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier packs his memories
As he leaves Afghanistan
And back home they don't know too much
There's just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell

Chorus:
And there won't be any victory parades
For those that's coming back
They'll fly them in at midnight
And unload the body sacks
And the living will be walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seems to care these days
When a soldier makes it home

They'll say it wasn't easy
Just another job well done
As the government in Kabul falls
To the sounds of rebel guns
And the faces of the comrades
Being blown out of the sky
Leaves you bitter with the feeling
That they didn't have to die

Chorus

Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier unpacks memories
That he saved from Vietnam
Back home they didn't know too much
There was just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell

And there wasn't any big parades
For those that made it back
They flew them in at midnight
And unloaded all the sacks
And the living were left walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seemed to care back then
When a soldier made it home

The night is coming quickly
And the stars are on their way
As I stare into the evening
Looking for the words to say
That I saw the lonely soldier
Just a boy that's far from home
And I saw that I was just like him
While upon this earth I roam

And there may not be any big parades
If I ever make it back
As I come home under cover
Through a world that can't keep track
Of the heroes who have fallen
Let alone the ones who won't
Which is why nobody seems to care
When a soldier makes it home

Harry Patch, the last survivor of World War I to fight in the trenches, has died.He passed away this morning at a care home in Somerset, aged 111.The home released a statement which read: "It is with much sadness that we must announce the death of Mr Harry Patch.

Funeral arrangements are being made in accordance with Mr Patch's wishes, and we wish to extend our deepest sympathies to his family, friends and the residents and staff of Fletcher House."

Mr Patch was a machine-gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and fought during the Battle of Passchendaele, in Ypres, which claimed the lives of more than 70,000 soldiers.

He became Britain's oldest man when another veteran of the war, Henry Allingham, died a week ago.




Henry Allingham (6 June 1896 – 18 July 2009)




Cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women was Henry Allingham's tongue in cheek recipe for his long life, which crossed over three centuries.

He was born in east London in June 1896 and brought up by his mother and grandparents following the death of his father, from TB, in 1897.

After leaving school he obtained a job as a trainee surgical instrument maker but quickly moved into the motor trade where he worked building car bodies.

In 1914 he tried to join the Army as a despatch rider but his mother, who was ill, persuaded him to stay at home and nurse her.

She died a few months afterwards, age 42, and Henry, who later remembered feeling completely alone and with no purpose in life, joined the fledgling Royal Naval Air Service as a mechanic.

After his training he was posted to Great Yarmouth, where he maintained sea planes involved in anti submarine patrols in the North Sea and acted as an air gunner in operations to counter German Zeppelins.

He was drafted on to HM trawler Kingfisher which headed north, in May 1916, as part of the British force sent to intercept the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland.



In what became the only major naval battle of the war, the British lost 14 ships and more than 6,000 lives, but the German fleet never again threatened to put to sea against the Royal Navy.

Allingham later recalled watching shells flying across the sea. "There were a lot of dud shells and that saved us from a lot of harm."

In 1917 he was posted to the Western Front where the RNAS was tasked with supporting squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps which was operating sorties over the battlefields of the Somme.

He found himself in the trenches where he was ordered to neutralise the booby trapped bombs left behind by the retreating German soldiers.

He later recalled being up to his armpits in water with the smell of mud and rotting flesh all around him.

In November 1917 he was posted to an aircraft recovery depot at Dunkirk where he stayed for the remainder of the war. Even here, behind the lines, he was subject to German bombing raids and shellfire from the sea.

Six months later he was transferred to the newly formed Royal Air Force after the merger of the RFC and the naval air service.

After his discharge from the RAF he went to work for the Ford Motor Company where he remained until he retired.

His engineering expertise was called into use again in World War II where he worked on a project designed to neutralise German magnetic mines.

Since 1918 he had buried his memories of the war, avoiding reunions and refusing to discuss the subject with his family.

He never forgot the sacrifice of his comrades who failed to return

But, in 2005, he was persuaded to unveil an RAF memorial in France and he decided it would have been disrespectful to his former comrades to refuse.

For the remainder of his life he was tireless in attending commemorative events, including the 90th anniversary of the Somme, and regularly spoke to schoolchildren about his wartime experiences.

On his visit to the Somme in 2006 he was asked how he wanted to be remembered. "I don't," he said, "I want to be forgotten. Remember the others." .............. They too fought for our freedom Rest In Peace and thank you.