Castle Shima

Be advised. I'm mean, nasty and tired. I eat concertina wire and piss napalm and I can put a round in a flea's ass at 200 meters. So why don't you go hump somebody else's leg, mutt face, before I push yours in.
-- Gunnery Sgt Highway from Heartbreak Ridge

Its Veteran's Day. Please remember to give thanks to those that fought for us, those that are fighting for us now, and those that will fight in our future.

They deserve words much more eloquent than my own.

If you are able, save them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the place they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always.

Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.

And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
January 1, 1970
Dak to, Vietnam