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Will you wear blue?

By Jerry | May 8, 2008

Will you wear blue?

International Picture of the Year

Here are two very touching photos honored this year.  

First Place:  First  Place
Todd  Heisler
The  Rocky Mountain News
When  2nd Lt. James Cathey’s body arrived at the Reno  Airport , Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the  plane and draped the flag over his casket as  passengers watched the family gather on the  tarmac.During  the arrival of another Marine’s casket last year at  Denver International Airport , Major Steve Beck  described the scene as so powerful: ‘See the people  in the windows? They sat right there in the plane,  watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what’s  going through their minds, knowing that they’re on  the plane that brought him home,’ he said  
‘They will  remember being on that plane for the rest of their  lives. They’re going to remember bringing that  Marine home. And they  should.’Second  Place :Second  Place
Todd  Heisler
The  RockyMountainNews

The  night before the burial of her husband’s body,  Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking  to sleep next to his body for the last time. The  Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets  below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened  her laptop computer and played songs that reminded  her of ‘Cat,’ and one of the Marines asked if she  wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept.  ’I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing  it,’ she said. ‘I think that’s what he would have  wanted.’

PLEASE  KEEP THIS GOING!
‘No  arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is  so formidable as the will and moral courage of free  men and women.’
– Ronald Reagan
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Blue  Fridays
Very  soon, you will see a great many people wearing blue  every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our  troops used to be called the ’silent majority.’   We are no longer silent, and are voicing our  love for God, country and home in record breaking  numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or  overbearing. Many Americans, like you, me and all  our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast  majority of America supports our troops.  
Our idea of  showing solidarity and support for our troops with  dignity and respect starts this Friday — and  continues each and every Friday until the troops all  come home, sending a deafening message  that every red-blooded American who supports  our men and women afar, will wear something  blue.

By  word of mouth, press, TV — let’s make the United  States on every Friday a sea of blue much like a  homecoming football game in the bleachers. If every  one of us who loves this country will share this  with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family,  it will not be long before the USA is covered in  BLUE and it will let our troops know the once  ’silent’ majority is on their side more than ever,  certainly more than the media lets on. 
The first  thing a soldier says when asked ‘What can we do to  make things better for you?’ is … ‘We need your  support and your prayers.’ Let’s get the word out  and lead with class and dignity, by example, and  wear something blue every Friday.   
 
IF  YOU AGREE -THEN SEND THIS ON.                                                                                                                    
IF  YOU COULDN’T CARE LESS — THEN HIT THE DELETE  BUTTON.IT  IS YOUR CHOICE. WE  LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY  BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE.
God bless all our soldiers 
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, But people will never forget how you made them feel.

It’s your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

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