Today we THANK and HONOR those who served in the military.
I think back to the passion with which my daddy would speak regarding his WWII experiences and tragedies. He enlisted at the age of 17 (the government overlooked his age because they were desperate for men, and he could interpret Russian.) He would speak as though he was in the moment, on the frontline, gun in hand, crawling through the damp and hilly terrain, fearful that the bullet sounds blasting through the air and whizzing by his ear - on the banks of the Rhine River in Germany - would eventually take his life.
(Pictures of my father in the army tank, the army tent, and gun-in-hand.)
When he looked to his left, his comrade laid lifeless. As he tried to revive this noble soldier, he made an emotional covenant with God (and accepted his pastoral calling), that if God would spare his own life, he would serve the Lord with all his heart, mind and soul. His best friend had succumbed to to the cold and cruel realities of war, but, my daddy, at that moment, became an honorable soldier of WWII, and an anointed soldier of the Cross; preaching the Word of God!
WE HONOR YOU - OUR NOBLE VETERANS!
BLESSINGS: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." II Timothy 4: 7, 8
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Dedication, commitment, sacrifice, loyalty, pride, patriotism for the sake of our Liberty and Freedom. We have much to be thankful for and many to honor.
I love that picture. We should drive through there at Christmastime. I bet it's pretty with all the wreath's. Good blog!!!
The wreaths are all on metal stands and go on the graves just before veterans day and stay until the first of the year. On Dads birthday we put a flag on his wreath,weather permitting, plus apples on his grave, for the deer.
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