A Big Thank You........

[fightingquaker13]

You were crying because you witnessed the reunion, or because she wasn't all over YOU "like white on rice"?


Hey SOMEbody had to say it!

I left this out of the OP out of patriotism, but since YOU brought it up... She was very cute in the face, but three years out of high school, she was pushing the "shouldn't be wearing spandex" rule to the breaking point. No jealousy at all. Just a Norman Rockwell moment.
FQ13

[jnevis]

To those that went before...We have the watch.
To those that follow...Take our lead and press on.



Couldn't watch the whole thing, got as far as I could (about 3 min)

Southern Watch 93-94,96-97 Desert Strike 98-99 Noble Eagle 02-03

Just past to me:

This s a little-known story from the Pentagon on 09/11/2001:

During a visit with a fellow chaplain, who happened
>to be assigned to the Pentagon, I had a chance to hear a first-hand
>account of an incident that happened right after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.

The chaplain told me what happened at a daycare center
>near where the impact occurred. This daycare had many children,
>including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor,
>looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic
>over what they could do. There were many children, mostly toddlers, as
>well as the infants that would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.
>Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed.
>After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back
>out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, 'Well, here we are-on our own.'

About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with
>40 other Marines in tow. Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and
>the rest started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then
>helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the
>park near the Potomac and the Pentagon. Once they got about 3/4 of a
>mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then
>did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the Old West.
>Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from
>wandering off. Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a
>perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they
>remained until the parents could be notified and come get their
>children.

The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us
>saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an
>incredible story of our men there. There wasn't a dry eye in the room.
>The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they
>reacted; could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon."

Remember Ronald Reagan's great compliment:
>"Most of us wonder if our lives made any difference. Marines don't have
>that problem."

>God Bless the USA , our troops, and you.