Letter from a Father to his 3-year-old son
 

"The price of ridding society of bad is always high" - Richard Helms

Miyamoto Musashi
 

“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”

Miyamoto Musashi

REASON'S
 

A man always has two good reasons for doing anything--- a good reason, and the real reason. Special Forces does things for the right reason.

SGM. Richard E. Pegram
U S Army Special Forces
KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam

Gone but not forgotten...

SGM. Richard E. Pegram
U S Army Special Forces
KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam

God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior...........:(

He was just a simple soldier and his ranks are growing thin
But his presence should remind us; we may need his like again,
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.........:(.

Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say:
OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY. (author unknown)

The passing of our soldiers often go unnoticed and unsung by most of the world, remembered only by family and friends. Wish it were not so. May he RIP, his family will be in my thoughts and prayers.........:(

I realize it's a Canadian song,however I believe most appropriate for this occasion...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ

Big Teddy

The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." – Winston Churchill

“America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.” – Ronald Reagan

The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph
 

The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98KAEif3bI

A man at his best. You are not so born. Strive daily to develop yourself in your person, in your calling, until perfection is attained: the fullness of your every gift, of your every faculty. You will know it in the improvement of your taste, in the clarification of your thinking, in the maturity of your judgement, in the control of your will. Some never attain the perfect, something always being lacking, and others are late in coming to themselves. The man complete, wise in speech, wise in action, is admitted, yea, he is welcomed into that rare fellowship of those who understand.
Baltasar Gracian


The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can carry a message to Garcia.
Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I'll ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day

From The Grey. Since folks here are fond of FOG slugging it out with grizzly bear, wolves, giant spider :D etc., I highly recommend the flick. The poem would make total sense then

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is most usually the stupid and ambitious, rather than the virtuous and wise, who seek and try to assume high office." Marsilius of Padua (14th century political philosopher)