digitaldog
Grove, OK
68, joined Dec. 2010
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If you wanna reminisce, 
or just dream about a whole different world...
Take a peek and wonder how we survived..!! 
( I grew up in Chicago and remember those days fondly )
Here is the page..
( - copy the WHOLE link to access the photo gallery - )
World War II: Life in Chicago -- Chicago Tribune
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http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-130320-arsenal-democracy-world-war-ii-pictures/#chi-arsenal20ladies-20080617
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CURRAHEE.......
( " C " Co. 1st Bde. 3/506th of the 101st and " B " Co. 75th Rangers )
  
 -XoXoXoX-
 
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
61, joined Jul. 2012
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“Your Mission”
[This was President Lincoln's favorite song, one which he encored
when sung at a Sunday School convention in Washington in 1864.]
If you cannot on the ocean sail among the swiftest fleet
Rocking on the highest billows, laughing at the storms you meet,
You can stand among the sailors, anchored yet within the bay,
You can lend a hand to help them as they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey up the mountain, steep and high,
You can stand within the valley while the multitudes go by;
You can chant in happy measure as they slowly pass along---
Though they may forget the singer, they will not forget the song.
If you have not gold and silver ever ready at command;
If you cannot toward the needy reach an ever-helping hand,
You can succor the afflicted, o'er the erring you can weep;
With the Saviour's true disciples you a tireless watch may keep.
If you cannot in the harvest garner up the richest sheaves,
Many a grain, both ripe and golden, oft the careless reaper leaves;
Go and glean among the briers growing rank against the wall
For it may be that their shadow hides the heaviest wheat of all.
If you cannot in the conflict prove yourself a soldier true,
If where fire and smoke are thickest there's no work for you to do,
When the battlefield is silent, you can go with careful tread---
You can bear away the wounded, you can cover up the dead.
Do not, then, stand idly waiting for some greater work to do;
Fortune is a lazy goddess---she will never come to you.
Go and toil in any vineyard; do not fear to do or dare---
If you want a field of labor you can find it anywhere.
~Mrs. Ellen M. H. Gates~
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eastfoot
Bossier City, LA
61, joined Jul. 2012
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https://news.yahoo.com/photos/remembrance-ceremony-held-to-mark-73rd-anniversary-of-attack-slideshow/
Remembrance ceremony of the Japanese bombing that launched the United States into World War II. About 100 Pearl Harbor and World War II survivors were expected to attend Sunday's ceremony. Many of them arrived well before the sun came up.
Among the comments posted:
“Now the children growing have no concept of what it is like to do without and to do within.”
“.. it was the population's business to keep up with the war effort as much as our soldiers.”
“Every year there is less coverage of this day in our history... But I know who is racist, who is trying to 'save' our planet, and who is in Hollywood. You know, all the important stuff. So sad. Thank you veterans, thank you dad, from the bottom of my heart for your sacrifices. Sorry for the horrible job we have done in protecting what you fought for. Hopefully it is not too late. May freedom still ring, God Bless the U.S.A.”
“Humble, quiet, hard working. They asked for nothing other than to have their children wake up every morning in safety and freedom. Their selflessness is what this country is built on.”
“Our heroes don't wear capes, they wear dog tags. You are loved and honored more than you realize. Stand proud.”
“These heroes from the war gave so much, asked for nothing in return and
now they watch as our government destroys what they fought for. To these
heroes I say thank you for your love of country ...”
"All gave some, some gave all"
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