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Price of freedom; 2,852,901

Started by 2 clicks low, May 30, 2011, 08:12:20 AM

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2 clicks low

Memorial Day 2018 Still too many.

Memorial Day 2016 Could not find an updated number so I'll go with too many.

Memorial Day 2015

Memorial Day 2014

Memorial day 2013

Memorial day 2012

Memorial day 2011

:'( Lest we forget.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

2cl
"Semper Fritos" 1st. Chicago Chairborne

Cooper

Thank you for posting this, 2CL. 

Lest we forget, indeed.   :'(
"This Appleseed thing doesn't look like it would be for everyone, but it really is." Zac, age 7  كافر
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." ~ Thomas Paine    "Cooper, you're an a**hole!" - recent Shoot Boss's compliment
"I don't know where "brave" leaves off and "foolish" picks up, but you've certainly got your share of courage." - FuzzyMath
"For the Rifle!, the Rifle!, in our hands will prove no trifle!" ~from the lyrics of "The Bennington Riflemen"
Understand the urgency of our mission; no amount of bailing can raise a sunken ship.
I don't want to be forced back into the darkness.
 

"Shut up and color." - slim

Cal 7.62

Amen, 2CL.
Freedom isnt free.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/images/above_scenes/pages/image_32.html

Not sure where I copied this from but I thought it was fitting-.


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
"Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions - The Eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us..." - George Washington

2 clicks low

"Semper Fritos" 1st. Chicago Chairborne

AFTERMATH

"We intend to produce men who are able to light a fire for Liberty in men's minds, and make them the finest rifle marksmanship Instructors on the planet." - Son of Martha

"Tyrants rise and fall, but tyranny lasts forever." -Me

[What kind of megalomaniac quotes himself?]

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"Semper Fritos" 1st. Chicago Chairborne

Mutti

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright
(1876 - 1944)

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PHenry

"Men sleep peacefully at night, only because rough me stand ready to do violence on their part" George Orwell
Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata

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Laredo

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

-Moina Michael
April 21-22, 2012 - 1st
Oct      6-7, 2012 - 2nd
April 20-21, 2013 - 3rd
Sept     7-8, 2013 - 4th - Rifleman!!

"The cost of a thing is the amount of life required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. When one has obtained those essentials necessary for well-being â€" food, shelter, warmth, and clothing, there is an alternative to struggling through steel jungles for the luxuries. That's to adventure on life itself, one's vacation from humble toil having commenced." -Townsend Whelen

PHenry

To the army and the navy and the battles they have won. Here's to the flag of America and the colors that never run. May the wings of Liberty, never lose a feather!
Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata

2 clicks low

#12
2018

Lest we forget

:'(
"Semper Fritos" 1st. Chicago Chairborne

PHenry

Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata

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theri

Whiskey Tango 9

Texas T

Many, today, seem to confuse Veteran's Day with Memorial Day. As a veteran, I am honored that there is a day to remember and honor our service. However...

Memorial Day is not Veteran's Day. It is a much more solemn day. One set aside to remember those whose lives were cut short, those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, so that we might have liberty and freedom today.

I ask that each and every American set aside a few moments tomorrow to remember those who sacrificed and gave all.

God Bless
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."  Mark Twain


First Appleseed, September 26-27, 2015;   First Rifleman, September 27, 2015;   First Redcoat, September 27, 2015;   Second Rifleman, September 27, 2015

Thanks Corvette, great instruction!!!

MI IBC, February 2017

PHenry

We had a gathering on Sunday and I got everyone's attention. First I reminded them that this holiday has nothing to do with BBQ grills or appliance sales - it is to commemorate our fallen. "Men sleep peacefully at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their part ' George Orwell.

Then I read the following - an excerpt from a speech given by Gen Douglas MacArthur at West Point:
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" Their story is known to all of you; it is the story of the American man-at-arms. My estimate of him was formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then as I regard him now - as one of the world's noblest figures, not only as one of the finest military characters but also as one of the most stainless. His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty he gave - all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast. But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism; he belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom; he belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements. In 20 campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other he has drained deep the chalice of courage.

As I listened to those songs of the glee club, in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs, on many a weary march from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-shocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain; driving home to their objective, and, for many, to the judgement seat of God. I do not know the dignity of their birth but I do know the glory of their death. They died questioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory. Always for them - Duty - Honor - Country; always their blood and sweat and tears as we sought the way and the light and the truth."
Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata