Thanks to all the Vets and those Serving!

[afterburn 549]

This might be a good time to post your FAVORITE Military song !
Please if you are anti military would go start your own thread? (instead of post neg comments here)
thanx
Ssgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets (1966 clip) - YouTube

[BeyGon]

The Marine Corps Hymn, the oldest official song in the Military.

[afterburn 549]

Originally Posted by BeyGon

The Marine Corps Hymn, the oldest official song in the Military.

Maybe you can post a link?

[craigster59]

this one gets me choked up. To all the Vets and my brothers from the 82nd Engineer Battalion.

[angelny911]

NOT THAT MANY HITS : amazing people read articles but when it comes to vets some look the other . may we honor those who fought and died for our country ,and a safe return to those who still out there

[afterburn 549]

at least as a consolation prize they are welcomed back..(I hope)

[afterburn 549]

THE VIETNAM SONG (SAD BUT TRUE) - YouTube

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Maybe you can post a link?

Here are the lyrics,

From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean:
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.
Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every clime and place
Where we could take a gun;
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job
The United States Marines.
Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By The United States Marines.

[rcecale]

Some of my favorite Marine Corps songs are included here...







Randy

[BeyGon]

Ted Nugent - Star Spangled Banner Live - YouTube

[afterburn 549]

19- Vietnam Presentation - YouTube

I was only 19 - YouTube

[944Larry]

Even though I was Army, I've always liked the Air Force song.

[masraum]

Well, not quite the same, but

BBC News - Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars

Arthur Mee did some research and determined that in England only 52 villages/towns/cities made it through WWI such that every person that went to war came home alive. After WWII, there were only 14 that had made it through both wars without losing anyone.

below are just some excerpts. The article (linked above) is longer

It is that rarest of British locations, a "thankful village" - the term coined in the 1930s by the writer Arthur Mee to describe the handful of communities which suffered no military fatalities in World War I.

Mee identified 32 such places, a figure that has been revised upwards in recent years to 52. Of these, just 14 have, like Upper Slaughter, come to be known as doubly thankful - also losing no-one from WWII.

A million British lives were lost from 1914-18 in Europe's first experience of industrialised, total warfare. No Scottish community appears to have been left unscathed, and no thankful villages have been identified in Ireland, all of which was still part of the UK during WWI. In England and Wales, the 52 so far singled out are dwarfed by over 16,000 which paid the highest sacrifice.

For every village like Upper Slaughter there was another like Wadhurst, East Sussex - a place of just over 3,500 people which lost 649 men in WWI, according to research by the historian Paul Reed, author of Great War Lives.

On a single day in 1915 at the Battle of Aubers, 25 men from Wadhurst were killed - just under 80% of all those who went forward into no-man's land, and almost certainly the heaviest per capita casualties of any community in the UK for one day's battle. The majority of the fallen had no known grave.

Largely to blame for this, Snow believes, was the system of Pals Battalions - units of friends, work colleagues and relatives who had been promised they could fight alongside each other when they enlisted amid the patriotic fervour of 1914.

The battalions were a useful recruiting tool for War Secretary Lord Kitchener, who believed that mobilising large numbers of enthusiastic recruits quickly was the best method of winning the war.

But the reality of the trenches, where thousands of men could be wiped out in a single day, meant that small communities could face disproportionate levels of bloodshed within a matter of hours.

Of about 700 "pals" from Accrington, Lancashire who participated in the Somme offensive, some 235 were killed and 350 wounded within just 20 minutes. By the end of the first hour, 1,700 men from Bradford were dead or injured. Some 93 of the approximately 175 Chorley men who went over the top at the same time died.

[Brillo]

My sincere thanks to everyone that has served and is currently serving.