MEMORIAL DAY 2005

[nChrist]

From: PatriotPetitions.US and The Federalist
Date: 05/27/05 09:24:29
Subject: MEMORIAL DAY 2005
 
 
MEMORIAL DAY 2005
 
Monday is Memorial Day, set aside to honor millions of fallen
Patriots -- generations of American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen,
Marines and Coastguardsmen, who served their country with honor from 1776 to this day.
 
Please honor those uniformed Patriots who stood and fell by their
oath in defense of our Constitution.
 
You can recognize fallen veterans and their families by joining with other Patriots placing flags at your nearest National Cemetery (generally done on Saturday before Memorial Day). Remember to pause at 1500 (your local time) on Memorial Day, and offer remembrance and prayer for these great Patriots.
 
Additionally, please show your support for our troops standing in
harm's way today by signing "An Open Letter in Support of America's Armed Forces" at
http://PatriotPetitions.US/USMIL

[Soldier4Christ]

On this Memorial Day as we remember and honor those that so valiantly gave their lives please remember those who sacrificed by their lost loved ones as well as those still living that also sacrificed much so that we all could have the freedoms that we so enjoy today.




The above picture displays what is known as the Military Field Cross. It was first started to mark graves in the field so that their comrades could come back at a later time in order to take them home.  It has become a symbol to honor all those fallen in battle.

[at_the_Cross]

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Memorial Day is not about division, it is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all. President Lyndon Johnson established Memorial Day in 1966 for remembrance for those who have died in World War I&II too.

Although the frist five years of Memorial Day was a holiday on May 30th until 1971 when it was changed to the last monday of May so people could have a three day weekend and technically I won't be 39(1966) until monday, but I'll be celebrating sunday instead.

[nChrist]

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THE FOUNDATION

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." --Nathan Hale

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THE PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE

Top of the fold --

"To support and defend... So help me God"

"I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means...." --John Adams

Monday is Memorial Day, set aside to honor our fallen Patriots -- generations of American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coastguardsmen -- who served their country with honor from 1776 to this day. It is a day that many of our Patriot readers, and every member of The Federalist Patriot staff, observe in solemn reverence.

There will be thousands of respectful commemorations across the nation, but the media outlets will be focused on Memorial Day "sales" to commemorate the commercial exploitation that attends every national holiday. Indeed, while divisions of America's Armed Forces are standing in harm's way today against a formidable Jihadi adversary, many of their countrymen will be too preoccupied with festivity to pause and recognize their sacrifice and that of those who have gone before.

At sunrise on Saturday, in advance of Memorial Day, this Boy Scout leader will join his troop and pack at Chattanooga's National Cemetery for an official ceremony and prayer memorializing fallen veterans, by branch of service, interred in the last year. Our Scouts will then fan out across the grassy slopes of this hallowed ground and place small flags at 35,000 headstones. (See http://FederalistPatriot.US/news/BSA.asp)

It is a remarkable experience for all in attendance, though it could be the last. The Boy Scouts have yet to be kicked out of Chattanooga's National Cemetery, but they have been exiled from many other public places.

Why?

Because all Scouts are bound by the following oath: "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country...." It is an oath which, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, makes the BSA a "religious organization," and, thus, in keeping with the ACLU's adulterated version of our Constitution's First Amendment, disqualifies the BSA from any public forum. Unfortunately, the ACLU and their patriarchs in Congress have planted enough judicial activists in U.S. Circuit Courts across the nation to impose, by judicial fiat, their God-forsaking agenda. (For a thorough Constitutional debunking of the ACLU's "wall of separation" claim, read "Public Prayer? Where's the outrage!" at:

http://FederalistPatriot.US/Alexander/

In 1999, the ACLU sued the Department of Defense for sponsoring some 400 Boy Scout programs, including the national Boy Scouts Jamboree in Virginia. American Legion National Commander Thomas Cadmus protested last year, in a letter to SecDef Don Rumsfeld: "The idea that sponsorship of Scouting by American military units is 'unconstitutional' goes beyond the absurd, even well past the point of stupidity."

Absurd and stupid, indeed -- so who is funding all these ACLU suits? American taxpayers -- that's you and me.

Many of the ACLU's "attorney-fee awards" are paid for under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S. Code Sec. 1988, legislation intended to provide compensation to legitimate victims of civil-rights violations. The ACLU is exploiting this law using phony plaintiffs suffering de minimis claims. Additionally, they are scalping state and local taxpayers. After the ACLU got the Boy Scouts removed from Balboa Park in San Diego, they collected a cool $940,000 from the city in "compensation." The Portland Public School system recently paid the ACLU $108,000 after an atheist objected to Boy Scout recruitment on school property after school hours.

====================See Page 2

[nChrist]

From The Federalist Patriot - Page 2:

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Such complaints are creeping across the nation and showing up on "ACLU-friendly" Circuit Court dockets -- all because the Boy Scouts refuse to remove the word "God" from their oath. Will the United States military be cowed as well? Or will it summon the resolve to engage this mortal enemy of our national heritage?

Earlier this year, the Department of Defense settled with the ACLU, agreeing not to sponsor any of the scouting activities monetarily, while it will still allow scouting events at military installations -- a military retreat but not complete withdrawal. However, every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine and Coastguardsman we honor this Memorial Day, and all those in service now, are bound by their oath "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.... So help me God."

So help me God.

The ACLU's Adam Schwartz noticed, protesting, "If our Constitution's promise of religious liberty is to be a reality, the government should not be administering religious oaths or discriminating based on religious beliefs." But, as noted in the essay referenced above, there is no "wall of separation" between religion and the government; there is only a prohibition on the Congress from establishing a national religion. However, the Circuit Courts are chock-full-o the ACLU's judicial activists, those who, in the words of the august Senator Sam Ervin, "interpret the Constitution to mean what it would have said if they, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it."

The courts are stacked with such despots, as Thomas Jefferson called them, because neither they, nor the members of the Senate who seat them (you know who you are), abide by their oaths to defend our Constitution -- "So help me God" -- the same Creator to whom members of our Armed Forces appeal. The difference, of course, is that our uniformed Patriots have defended, and continue to defend, that oath with their lives, while liberal senators and judges defend it with lip service over cappuccinos and tartlets.

If you are able, please join your fellow countrymen this weekend at your nearest National Cemetery, and honor those uniformed Patriots who stood and fell by their oath in defense of our Constitution. Remember to pause at 3:00pm local time on Memorial Day, and offer remembrance and prayer for these great Patriots. "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died," said Gen. George S. Patton. "Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

On this and every day, please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces now standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return. Please take a moment to sign "An Open Letter in Support of America's Armed Forces" at:

http://PatriotPetitions.US/USMIL

(PUBLISHER'S NOTE:The Patriot will not publish on Memorial Day, but we encourage you to visit our tribute to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." --

http://FederalistPatriot.US/news/Arlington.asp

Quote of the week...

"Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery with its row on row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom.... Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach and Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam. Under one such marker lies a young man -- Martin Treptow -- who left his job in a small-town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading 'My Pledge,' he had written these words: 'America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone'." --Ronald Reagan

[Tibby]

God bless our troops!

[ollie]

Matthew 5:43-46

Luke 6:35-38

[JudgeNot]

[John 3:16]

God Bless Are Troops And P.O.W And All Who Servered

[2nd Timothy]

Emily Dieruf from Lexington, Kentucky reacts after finding her husband's dog tag at Camp Pendleton, California May 26, 2005. A memorial service was held in honor of the 420 Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and British Soldiers who lost their lives while serving with the 1st Marine Division in Iraq. Since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, at least 1,647 American military personnel have lost their lives in Iraq. REUTERS/Mike Blake

 


Oh how we spend our pricesless liberties.  

As citizens of America and Heaven, let us not forget the price that has been paid for our freedoms.  What Love, what cost, what sacrifice.  

Grace and Peace!

[Soldier4Christ]

Oh how we spend our pricesless liberties.

As citizens of America and Heaven, let us not forget the price that has been paid for our freedoms.  What Love, what cost, what sacrifice.

Amen 2T!



This Memorial Day in addition to remembering those brave people that fought and died in Military service protecting our freedoms I wish to make mention of many unsung heroes. These people for one reason or another were not able to serve us in Military service. Yet their acts are no less honorable and their sacrifices sometimes were just as devastating.

One such person is my Dad. Due to a physical problem he could not join the Military during WWII. He was turned away before he could finish the entrance physical. He didn't give up there. His convictions to help in the war effort was so great that he went home and thought of ways to help out.  He worked for Catepillar building tractors that were badly needed by the Military. This just wasn't enough for him though. There was a shortage of certain kinds of metal needed by the Military for the war. He joined a volunteer group that collected scrap metal and turned it in making no money on this effort. He also had to work putting in his garden to support the large family he had. He would go with only four hours of sleep a day to help in this way.

 There were others also. One of my Uncles was also turned away due to health problems. He decided to join the Red Cross. He drove a delivery truck that delivered packages to the Troops sometimes risking his life to do so. Sometimes these packages were personal ones from home (mail) but other times they were badly needed supplies such as medical equipment. He drove through mine fields (not knowing they were there) and several times endured shelling in order to get these packages to the Troops. He also had to help with the wounded and dying Troops turning his truck into an ambulance.

I could go on for a long time about the various people, Doctors, Nurses, and various other volunteers that were not in the Military that endured many sacrifices just to help out. The Troops could not have done without such people and would have had to endure so much more than they already did without them and their support. We owe our freedom to them also.

My Dad and Uncle were some of the lucky ones. They still had their lives. There were those that lost their lives supporting our Troops in this manner.

I ask you to join with me this Memorial Day in remembering these brave souls also.

[JudgeNot]

I could go on for a long time about the various people, Doctors, Nurses, and various other volunteers that were not in the Military that endured many sacrifices just to help out. The Troops could not have done without such people and would have had to endure so much more than they already did without them and their support. We owe our freedom to them also.

Amen.  Soldiers without a uniform.

The Merchant Marines - key to allied victory - so many lost.
The Seabees - instrumental.

[Tibby]

I think we should spend the M-day visiting our local Police and Fire Stations, letting those who didn't get off for this day know that their sacrifice is also appreciated, and maybe bringing a couple of burgers, right from the M-day grill!

Oooo, ranch burgers... yum...