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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

The Gratitude Campaign

This is pretty neat.....(30 second video)... Have you ever seen one of our military walking past you and wanted to convey to them your thanks, but weren't sure how, or it felt awkward?

Recently, a gentleman from Seattle created a gesture which could be used to express your thanks and has started a movement to get the word out..

Please everybody take just a moment to watch..... The Gratitude Campaign ...and then forward it to your friends! THEN START USING THE SIGN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSfFYxSdKdo

I BET YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS IN THE NEWSPAPER OR ON THE 6 O'CLOCK NEWS

The Sailor pictured below is MIKE MONSOOR, Navy Petty Officer, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Second Class (April 5th, 1981 ~ September 29th, 2006)



Mike Monsoor, was Awarded "The Congressional Medal Of Honor" last week for giving his life in Iraq, as he jumped on and covered with his body, a live hand grenade that was accidentally dropped by a Navy Seal,saving the lives of a large group of Navy Seals that was passing by!

During Mike Monsoor's funeral, at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California the six pallbearers removed the rosewood casket from the hearse.

Lined up on each side of Mike Monsoor's casket were his family members, friends, fellow sailors and well-wishers.

The column of people continued from the hearse, all the way to the grave site.
What the group didn't know at the time was every Navy Seal(45 to be exact)that Mike Monsoor saved that day was scattered through-out the column!

As the pallbearers carried the rosewood casket down the column of people to the grave site the column would collapse forming a group of people that followed behind.

Every time the rosewood casket passed a Navy Seal, he would remove his gold Trident Pin from his uniform and slap it down hard causing the gold Trident Pin to embed itself into the top of the wooden casket! Then the Navy Seal would step back from the column and salute!

Now for those who don't know what a Trident Pin is or what it looks like here is the definition and photo!

Basic Navy Seals training lasts for three weeks and is followed by Navy Seal Qualification Training which is 15 more weeks of training. This training is necessary to continue improving basic skills and to learn new tactics and techniques which is required prior to assignment to a Navy Seal Platoon.

After successful completion,trainees are given their Naval Enlisted Code,
and are awarded the Navy Seal Trident Pin.

With this Gold Pin they are now officially Navy Seal's!

It was said that you could hear each of the 45 slaps from across the cemetery!
By the time the rosewood casket reached the grave site it looked as though it had a gold inlay from the 45 Trident Pins that lined the top!



This was a fitting end to an eternal send-off for a warrior hero!

This should be front-page news!

Instead of the garbage we listen to and see every day.

GOD BLESS AND KEEP OUR TROOPS SAFE!

Drafting Guys Over 60

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000
additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it
will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.

An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell.. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and can't sleep and
since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical SOB....

If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real stretch.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any push ups after completing basic training.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him.. He's still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.