Title: 65th Anniversary of D-Day Victory Post by: Mooncat on June 06, 2009, 04:20:43 pm "Friends and veterans, what we cannot forget — what we must not forget — is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century," he said.
"At an hour of maximum danger, amid the bleakest of circumstances, men who thought themselves ordinary found it within themselves to do the extraordinary." ... "You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance," the president said to the gathered veterans. "You could have done only what was necessary to ensure your own survival. But that's not what you did. That's not the story you told on D-Day." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090606/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama Hands Held High Turn my mic up louder I got to say something Light weights steppin aside when we comin' Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping People on the street they panic and start running Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming I jump on my mind, I summon the rhyme, I'm dumping Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in Sick of the dark ways we marched to the drummin' Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping F*** that I wanna see some fists pumping Risk something, take back what's yours Say something that you know they might attack you for Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for Like this war's really just a different brand of war Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor Like they understand you in the back of the jet When you can't put gas in your tank These f*****s are laughing their way to the bank and cashing their check Asking you to have compassion and have some respect For a leader so nervous in an obvious way Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day In their living room laughing like "what did he say?" Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen In my living room watching but I am not laughing Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen The world is cold the bold men take action Have to react or get blown into fractions Ten years old is something to see Another kid my age drug under the jeep Taken and bound and found later under the tree I wonder if he thought the next one could be me Do you see the soldiers that are out today To brush the dust from bullet proof vests away It's ironic, at times like this you pray But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads Inside your market, your shops, your clothes My dad he's got a lot of fear I know But enough pride inside not to let that show My brother had a book he would hold with pride A little red cover with a broken spine On the back, he hand wrote a quote inside "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die" Meanwhile, the leader just talks away Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day Both scared and angry like "what did he say?" Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you Take a few moments to appreciate the men & women fighting to protect our country.. I did. Title: Re: 65th Anniversary of D-Day Victory Post by: brat1083 on June 08, 2009, 01:40:36 am Rememger that there where 5 Beaches that where landed on 2 were British, 1 Canadain
2 USA As well as Free French and Least we forget the French resistance.... It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protestor to burn the flag. - Father Dennis Edward O'Brian, USMC |