Sun City Veterans and all of those in the Armed Forces : Thank you for our freedom

With all that's going on in congress, with arguments over money and politics as usual, I thought this post would bring us back to how we remain free...

There are more Marine Corps Flags that adorn the front of homes then I can count—and the number of American Flags that wave along so many of our streets is wonderful to see.There are a lot of veterans in Sun City Hilton Head and the surrounding area. The Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot and The Marine Corps Air Station are our neighbors. Each Veterans day, the Marine Corps Band plays for the crowds that gather to honor our Vets.

I think we need to be reminded often, not just on Veterans day that there is a price for our freedom.

What follows below was sent to me by my brother-in-law who served in the Navy for 20 years, most of it on a carrier and so many deployments--more than his wife and daughters can count.

He received this from a Marine on active duty. The Marine is recommending a new movie which will be released on 21 February. He says, it really got to him:

Read what he wrote and then watch the movie trailer. http://www.hbo.com/events/takingchance/

"To My Fellow Service members, Present and Past; your Families and Friends:

This trailer alone got to me. That, and considering the studio and Kevin Bacon, this should be a 'home run' movie.

This movie has to be seen by everyone we can convince or cajole into going to the theater. Not just Marines but family, friends and the general public. Follow the link to a preview.

This one should be up for awards in 2009 and we can make that happen with outstanding levels of tickets at the box office ... spreading info on the internet and .... well, improvise, adapt and overcome!

This sequence is certainly not unique to Marines, and God bless all that have served and given their all. But here we have a chance to once again renew our pledge of Semper Fidelis, and honor our younger, very younger, brothers who took up the gauntlet and gave their all so family and friends don't have to. This Marine and all Marines live on forever.

All Marines die in the red flash of battle or the white cold of the nursing home. In the vigor of youth or the infirmity of age all will eventually die, but the Marine Corps lives on. Every Marine who ever lived is living still, in the Marines who claim the title today. It is that sense
of belonging to something that will outlive your

own mortality, which gives people a light to live by and a flame to mark their passing.”

http://www.hbo.com/events/takingchance/

The enthusiasm and dedication this Marine exudes is examplary and no matter the branch of service, so many of our young men and women in our armed forces serve this way, putting their lives on the line everyday, so we can be free.

Be sure to see this movie.

 Semper Fi