A PRAYER FOR SERVICEMEN

Happy   4th   of   July!....  

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE   

FLAG,

OF THE UNITED  

STATES OF AMERICA ,

AND TO THE REPUBLIC,

 

FOR WHICH IT STANDS,  

ONE  NATION UNDER  GOD ,  

INDIVISIBLE,  

WITH   LIBERTY

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!   

 

For all of our other military personnel, where ever they may be.  

Please  

Support all of the troops defending our Country.  

And God Bless our Military  

who are protecting our Country for our Freedom.

Thanks to them, and their sacrifices, we can celebrate the 4th of July.  

 

We must never forget who gets the credit for the freedoms we have,  

of which we should be eternally grateful.  

  I watched the flag pass by one day...  

It fluttered in the breeze.  

  A young Marine saluted it,  

And then he stood at ease.  

 

I looked at him in uniform;  

so young, so tall, so proud.  

With hair cut square and eyes alert,  

he'd stand out in any crowd.  

I thought how many men like him  

had fallen through the years.  

How many died on foreign soil;  

how many mothers' tears?  

How many pilots' planes shot down?  

How many died at sea?  

How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?  

No, freedom isn't free.  

I heard the sound of Taps one night,  

when everything was still.  

I listened to the bugler play  

And felt a sudden chill.  

 

I wondered just how many times  

That Taps had meant 'Amen.'  

When a flag had draped a coffin  

of a brother or a friend.  

 

I thought of all the children,  

of the mothers and the wives,  

of fathers, sons and husbands  

With interrupted lives.  

 

I thought about a graveyard

At the bottom of the sea.  

Of unmarked graves in   Arlington ..  

No, freedom isn't free.  

Enjoy Your Freedom  and  

God Bless Our Troops.

 

When you receive this,  

please stop for a moment  

and say a prayer for our servicemen.  

Of all the gifts you could give a U.S. Soldier,

 

 prayer is the very best one.