Our American Freedom: Marine Jenna

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Marine Jenna

Today I am on my way north bound on the New Jersey Turnpike about 2pm coming up on exit 9, wow that is a lot of detail. Anyway, there is an F-150 with writing on the bed cap in that marker/paint that cheerleaders use on their cars. So I figured it was some Obama message. Boy was I wrong it said, "Bringing home 'R' U.S. Marine Jenna." So I overlooked the Jets hitch cover and pulled along side and the windows were painted more. "We are so proud of our marine." I waved to say thanks but the driver, in his red marine baseball cap didn't see, he was on the phone, he looked like the marine's dad. Now I do not know a Marine Jenna nor have I ever heard of one. I do not know if Marine Jenna is a man or a woman. I do not know Marine Jenna's rank but none of this matters because Marine Jenna served and then came home. Marine Jenna your parents are not the only ones proud of you moreover thank you for your service to all Americans. Thanks to your family also. Now I do not know where marine Jenna lives or is from so whether you are kickin' it in Hoboken or maybe shooting craps at the Borgata or even just chillin' at the local V.F.W. Thank you for your service Marine Jenna and may your life be peaceful and happy for all the days of your life.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." Theodore Roosevelt
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. Gen. George S. Patton
I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself. I am an expert and I am a professional. I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat. I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life. I am an American Soldier.
And when to Heaven's Gates he comes, to Saint Peter he will tell, "One more Marine reporting sir, I've served my time in Hell."
" NO MAN IS ENTITLED TO THE BLESSING OF FREEDOM UNLESS HE BE VIGILANT IN ITS PRESERVATION."
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier.