The poem is not new, but we must never forget those men and women standing watch for us.

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear..
Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

“What are you doing?” I asked without fear,
“Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!”
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..

To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light
Then he sighed and he said “Its really all right,
I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.”
“It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ‘Pearl on a day in December,”
Then he sighed, “That’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers.”
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ‘Nam’,
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he’s sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue… an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall..”

“  So go back inside,” he said, “harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right.”
“But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
“Give you money,” I asked, “or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
For being away from your wife and your son.”

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
“Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.”

PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many
people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our
U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these
festivities. Let’s try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people
stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq

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WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out

This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii

for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes

all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body,

he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now.

He dictated this letter  to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.

Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year.  People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate.  Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish

I can’t figure out what country you are the president of.

You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

” We’re no longer a Christian nation” ” America is arrogant” – (Your wife even announced to the world,”America is mean- spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our

war dead buried all over the globe who  died for no other reason than to free a  whole lot of strangers from tyranny and  hopelessness.)

I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you.  To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British?  Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War?  I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination.  You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American.  If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue.  You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight?  You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing.  I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son.  Do your job.  When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him.  But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out.  The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.

You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy.  That’s not our greatest threat.  Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.

And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes

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“The Axis of Idiots”

From the Podium:

J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC

This retired USMC Sgt. Major has his Stuff together.

Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the “runner-in-chief.”

Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more

fiction than fact. You’ve accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, and the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You’re a fake! You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq , like Vietnam , is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool. You’re not a Marine, sir. You wouldn’t amount to a good pimple on a real Marine’s ass. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.

Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers – cause to think that we’ll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.

American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer..

You are America ’s ‘AXIS OF IDIOTS.’ Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.

Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.

Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.

Semper Fi,

J. D. Pendry – Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired

This is a savvy man. He has nailed it down pretty good. Too bad it won’t do any good. There won’t be 1 in 10 that receive it who will forward it.

I decided to post it and forward it!!

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“If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington DC is 80.6 per 100,000 CIVILIANS for the same period. That means you are about 25 % more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq.”

Conclusion:      The U.S. should pull out of Washington DC .

→ Next Chicago!!

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Elected Representative Oath of Office

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.  So help me God.

Military Oath of Office

“I, _____, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

Our Military is doing their part; lets hold those elected to serve the people accountable.

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For all of our other military personnel, where ever they may be
Please Support all of the troops defending our Country.

And God Bless our Military

who are protecting our Country and our Freedom.
Thanks To them, and their sacrifices we can celebrate the 4th of July

We must never forget who gets the credit for the freedoms we have,

of which we should be Eternally grateful.

I watched the flag
Pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.

A young Marine Saluted it,
And then he stood at ease..

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square
And eyes alert
He’d stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men
Like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil
How many mothers’ tears?
How many pilots’ planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers’ graves?
No, freedom isn’t free

I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times

That Taps had meant ‘Amen,’

When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn’t free.
Enjoy Your Freedom
& God Bless Our Troops

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Definition of a Veteran:

A veteran – whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America”, for an amount of “up to and including my life.”

That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

– Author Unknown

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What does Transit Stimulus have to do with Wartime Supplemental? Well Claire, I guess about as much as you think guns have to do with credit cards.  (See her slam on Republicans in above post.) Don’t be so hypocritical Senator, it may bite ya.

News from

Senator Claire McCaskill

For Immediate Release               

May 12, 2009

McCaskill Urges Stimulus Money for Transit Programs to

Include Operational Needs

Stimulus change would help public transportation systems in Saint Louis and Kansas City

address layoffs and cuts to services

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill put pressure on key members of Congress to change stimulus rules to help Missouri public transportation survive the recession:

• The Problem: Stimulus funding designated for transit programs can only be used for construction and capital improvements. As a result, in cases like Metro St. Louis and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, layoffs and cuts to services based on operational budget shortfalls are working against the intent of the economic recovery effort.

• The Solution: McCaskill sent a letter today to Senate leaders calling for a change that would allow American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to support operations, in addition to paying for transit construction projects.  If this change was made, Kansas City and Saint Louis transit systems could use stimulus dollars to retain or rehire workers recently laid off or restore routes that have been cut.

In Kansas City and St. Louis, the transit agencies have faced declining tax revenues, forcing officials to make deep cuts in services.  Eliminating bus routes and services is a double hit on the local economies by forcing layoffs of transit employees and impacting the ability of citizens to travel to and from work.

McCaskill’s letter:

Dear Chairman Inouye and Vice Chairman Cochran:

I am writing to request that the Committee on Appropriations include a provision in the fiscal year 2009 wartime supplemental to help transit agencies prevent layoffs and service cuts and weather this recession.

Across the country, transit agencies are struggling to fund their transit needs as tax revenues decline. In my state of Missouri, transit agencies in Kansas City and St. Louis are having serious problems because of dwindling sales tax revenues.  The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority [KCATA] recently approved a service reduction on 25 of 66 routes.  Things are even worse in St. Louis, where Metro St. Louis had to cut transit service drastically beginning March 30th.  Metro St. Louis eliminated 2,300 bus stops and laid-off over 550 employees who made a good wage and contribute to the community.

In addition to the immediate affect these cuts have to transit employees, local employers have expressed strong concerns about the impact service cuts have on their employees being able to get to work.  Cuts to transit service reverberate throughout the economy and will slow our recovery.

Therefore, I urge you to include language in the supplemental to allow transit agencies to use funding they are provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for operations.  As you know, the ARRA included $8.4 billion in formula grants for public transit projects.  Given the layoffs and system cuts that are occurring throughout the country, Congress should allow these ARRA funds to also be used for operations, just as Congress has helped states meet their operations needs with stabilization funds.

I look forward to continuing to work with you on this issue and others to help our communities recover and grow.

Sincerely,

CLAIRE MCCASKILL

United States Senator

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Two things that bug me….hearing about the CEO killing himself this morning makes me wonder how big that OTHER shoe is that’s about to drop…what made him decide to do this?  What did he know, that we’re about to?  How will the DOW respond today?  What will Barnie Frank and Chris Dodd have to say?  Maybe they will be pallbearers.

The other thing is this flap about the release of this top secret memo regarding torture.  I think it’s a HUGE mistake to release this kind of info., but we really shouldn’t be surprised.  I remember the very first official act OBAMA did as President.  At the time, it caught my interest because this is what I do every day.  Now it greatly disturbs me.

The first thing Obama  did was expand the public’s “right to know” by NARROWING the scope of what information government agencies can legally withhold.  He did this by executive order.  He removed exceptions from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  Good for the public, BAD for the public at the same time.  This memo is a perfect example.

When Obama first made this directive I wondered what it would do to the military, of all government agencies.  Now we know.  He’s made it easier for the press to access information, then leak it to the entire world.  If the memo on torture is any indication, I fear we have lots of depressing days ahead of us.   So now we know what he really means when he talks about transparency in government…..it’s not so that we the people now have a better idea of what these clowns are doing….it’s that the press can push to have just about anything released.  Obama says the memo was released because a Freedom of Information Act request was going to MAKE the administration release it….B.S.!!!  He weakened the FOIA Act on his first day, with just this type of thing in mind.  Because of THIS directive, the country is less safe.

My guess is that he wants to destroy our military, and make us toothless in this increasingly scary world.  He’s well on his way, don’t you think?  Have you been sized for your BURKA yet?

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We have made a video of the Soldier poem that was posted a couple days ago.  We have put it on YouTube, Vimeo and Daily Motion.  Here it is.

This is what many Americans need to realize, the soldiers are the only thing that protect our rights and our constitution.  Today, with Congress shredding the constitution on a daily basis we can find peace in the fact that the United States Soldier will protect the constituition and the rights granted to us in it. Next time you see a soldier, thank them for their service.

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