In Memory of Our Call to Duty WW ll

 

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A Story You'll Never Forget Salt Lake man honors veterans for Memorial Day - ksl.com

Salt Lake man honors veterans for Memorial Day - ksl.com

The gestapo stopped him as he was about to pass
They demanded that he drop his pants
Seeking the evidence of a circumcision
His arrest was but a quick decision

His job would be to cut down the huge trees
To feed the fires for the crematories
His hard shoes were made of cloth and bark
From a dead man's feet, evidence his future was stark

Each man's weight was only skin and bones
Side by side six slept in a bed full of groans
Where on the hour together they would flip
Lest any one of them might break a hip

Then came a rucus... they were told to hide
In the sewer, a slippery fecal slide
Someone yelled out, they were now free!
And that they were alive, it was hard to believe

Each man in the service wept at the sight
How could these prisoners still be alive?
They helped to clean them and sought to understand
And for their courage they shook each slight hand

The boy... does anyone know what became of him?
Years passed and family found him healthy and trim
What a celebration! Having thought him dead!
With determination they would look ahead

But...for the others their story is retold
That the memory never ever grow cold
Shall we eliminate a color, religion, or race?
No! We are all God's children- with love to embrace

Answer to a Nation Sliding into Chaos

When chaos overcomes

Efforts to deesculate

A spiritual revival becomes

Our best hope to erase hate

Laws are being toyed with

Amidst civil unrest

Civility can't win when

We don't share how we are blessed

Great Britain is at risk.

France is at risk.

Germany is at risk.

The US is at risk.

You have to be a healthy nation

To take refugees in

When there's no acclimation

Civil unrest begins

https://youtu.be/Se2azRu5QAI?si=ISBPWonaxgQ3P_zz

The Overdue Homecoming

The son, brother, husband, father

Long overdue.  Long past hope.

The remains found years after.

Now, brought to rest. Honored. Home. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAMyqdMj_g   after 52 years, Southwest Airlines Captain Bryan Knight last saw his father, Col. Roy A Knight, at Dallas Love Field Airport when he was five years old. Col. Knight deployed to serve in the Vietnam War in 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk5BFTiAL4k  after 80 years- and brought home by his nephew, Captain Chuck Axel. SSGt Loring Lord was killed in action over Germany on March 21, 1945.t

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We Don't Need to Redefine America

We don’t need to redefine America
But return to its truths, self evident
The constitution was indeed a miracle
Putting policy where it is best spent

Promoting the general welfare, hence
While granting freedoms equally to all
Providing for the common defense
Responding to liberty’s call

The American Republic, once great
Ought not become a socialist state
Freeing industry improves the employment rate
We must act before it is too late!

Green jobs, stimulus packages, entitlements
Must be a thing of the past
Giving power back to local governments
Returned to the people at last

click on the title to read Tom McClintock's speech
California: A Morality Tale in Three Parts

The following is a speech delivered to the
Council on National Policy on September 30, 2011....

We Who in Freedom Live Today

We who in freedom live today
Remember those once brave
Who knew the valiant price to pay
For sovereign rights to save

The greatest act that one can do
Is to do what's hard, but right
To face enemies and fear too
And be steadfast in the fight

If we ever were to forget
Life's lessons would be gone
But a patriot's heart won't let
Of such comes freedom's song

Thus in the season where colors fall
And families gather near
Let us pay tribute to honor's call
And thank our veteran's dear

Pause and Remember

Pause to remember
Solemnly with pride
Our American heroes
Who now live and have died

We owe all these men and women
Our respect and admiration
We are grateful for each veteran
For their service to this nation


Mitt Romney
Today, Veterans Day, we pause to remember - and to take solemn pride in -
America’s heroes. We owe the men and women who have served in our armed forces our respect, our admiration, and our eternal gratitude.

The Golden Thread of Freedom

Throughout the gospel plan

There lies a golden thread

Giving free agency to man

To choose where one is led

Defend the constitution

Each freedom it provides

Safeguard it from pollution

And strengthen it with your lives

Give of yourself in service

As it is vitally important to activate-

Those finer qualities of purpose

That refine us and are a joy to radiate

To summarize our capacity to influence those around us, President McKay said the following half a century ago:

There is one responsibility which no man can evade and that responsibility is personal influence. Man’s unconscious influence, the silent, subtle radiation of his personality. The effect of his words and acts. These are tremendous. Every moment of life he is changing to a degree the life of the whole world.
Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other. Man cannot escape for one moment from this radiation of his character. This constantly weakening or strengthening of others. He cannot evade the responsibility by saying it is an unconscious influence. He can select the qualities he would permit to be radiated. He can cultivate sweetness, calmness, trust, generosity, truth, justice, loyalty, nobility, and make them vitally active in his character. By these qualities he will constantly affect the world. This radiation to which I refer comes from what a person really is, not from what he pretends to be. Every man by his mere living is radiating sympathy, sorrow, or morbidness, cynicism, or happiness or hope, or any other hundred qualities. Life is a state of radiation and absorption. To exist is to radiate. To exist is to be the recipient of radiation.

"To radiate our positive influence in civic affairs, we must become righteous and moral; we must, as Ghandi once said, be the change we wish to see in the world. We need to learn and abide by the principles found in the Constitution, for as President McKay taught: "Next to being one in worshiping God, there is nothing in this world upon which this Church should be more united than in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States!" (Instructor Magazine, 1956, 91:34). We must take that knowledge and understanding of the Constitution, and infuse our political system with its disinfecting simplicity and principled restraints; we must become leaders and work diligently to support good people in public office, or seek office ourselves. And finally, we must radiate our influence by exposing ourselves to those who might be impacted and uplifted by our actions, words, and character."


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