posted 05-08-2004 12:43 PM         

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

posted 05-08-2004 07:05 PM         

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Originally posted by CTProwler:
I'm very proud to be an American! But its embarrassing when some idiot soldiers make the whole country look bad by taking pictures of Iraqi prisoners being humiliated!

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Your so right about that Chuck.

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posted 05-08-2004 08:19 PM         

Unfortunenatly...I understand worse photos and details are going to be in the news soon? I'm just so disappointed, disgusted, angry with those behaviors..it's a foundation shaker for me...

JMO

posted 05-08-2004 10:11 PM         

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But its embarrassing when some idiot soldiers make the whole country look bad by taking pictures of Iraqi prisoners being humiliated!

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The vast majority of our folks over there are as good as gold. I can't imagine what the rest were thinking: Hey, Louie, I'm gonna commit a war crime...get the camera!

posted 05-09-2004 07:59 PM         

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posted 05-09-2004 08:58 PM         

And I don't think we need Rush Limbaugh on the radio saying he thinks it's a pretty good thing, in the context of war, to have those prisoners humiliated and to have the photos published, because now the Arab world will know we're serious. Obviously he was never in the military!