A Note to our Very Shiny STATIC
POSTED BY: BadgersHat
UPDATED: Thursday, May 6, 2004 22:34
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Static--
There really are no words that I can come up with to say "Welcome Home" other than... er... "Welcome Home..."
You and your brothers and sisters in arms are the reason we in America have the freedom that so many of us take for granted. Suits and such tend to take a political lean for or against, without really comprehending that the soldiers who do the actual work are human beings, with families, friends, neighbors, favorite sports teams, etc... so, many here tend to state their own personal opinions of the abstract concept that war tends to become.
Very few of us can comprehend what it must mean to leave your home, your family, fly to some far off stretch of land, and spend months, if not years, searching for people who want to kill you (for no other reason than that they've been TOLD that they want to kill you).
There is nothing pretty, nothing glamorous, nothing exhilerating about war. War looks fun on the big screen, or the TV, or a video game, but in reality, war means death for countless thousands.
I think a lot of the anger you may have picked up on here in this board is, our President has never been one to truly impress. He comes across as somewhat backwater and ignorant, and no real reason that truly satisfies has ever been given for WHY you and your brothers and sisters were sent there to fight. It angers me, personally, that he and his Mid-East counterparts are the ones who make the decisions to go to war and kill, but you'll not see them pick up a rifle, dig a trench, sharpen a knife... they seem very free with the lives of others, but unwilling to take on the burden themselves.
But, I cannot imagine a single Browncoat holds similar feeling for the soldiers doing the work. You guys are the ones protecting us, whether you or us agrees or disagrees with this war, and I think I speak for all the Browncoats--and most of America, I expect--when I lift my hat, hold it over my heart, give a little bow, and say...
..."Thank you."
I read your recent post, when you were home for 10 days and saw the flag on American soil for the first time in ages, and found it rather difficult to breathe for a moment.
Welcome home, I hope to stay for good this time. If you ever get to NYC, let me know, I'll show you the town.
I ask all Browncoats to please join in, you all should know the words.
I'll start--
"Oh, say can you see..."
--Jefé The Hat
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"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne
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By the dawn's early liiiight....
Mal-licious
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What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
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And the rockets red glare!
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I'll add my hearty welcome home to yours if it's ok. Good to see back Static!
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Whose broad stripe and bright stars . . .
Welcome home, and thank you.
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Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there...
Welcome home, Static! Glad you made it safely! Have fun with your princess!
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Is it PC to add greetings from Canada in here as well?
Even if not; welcome home, Static!
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Nah, give 'em ALL the verses, they just get better and better
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Make thunder!
"We are exporting democracy because we have all of this unused democracy lying around at home. Why not make some money doing it?"
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