There is no "good war" - but sometimes war is necessary. I am grateful to the brave and responsible men and women who risk their lives for our freedom. Also see Veterans Day, Navy, Air Force, Army, Military Connections, Patriotism, Fourth of July, Military Humor, and Peace.

Quotes

• Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
• Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
• Freedom has a price, and it is high. Sometimes a man must give all he can, sometimes a man must die. (Doug Stewart)
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (John Adams)
• If a country is worth living in, it's worth fighting for. (Manning Coles)
• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Douglas MacArthur)
• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. (Jose Narosky)
• Only the winners decide what were war crimes. (Gary Wills)
• That noise you hear is the sound of freedom
• There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'. (Sir William Slim)
• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. (Elmer Davis)
• To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. (George Washington)
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. (John Stewart Mill)
• When the rich make war it's the poor that die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Military Holidays

Armed Forced Day (Third Saturday in May)
Memorial Day (May 30)
D-Day (June 6)
Flag Day (Jun 14)
Independence Day (Jul 4)
Navy Day (October 27th)
Veterans Day (Nov 11)
Pearl Harbor Day (Dec 7)

Page Ideas

• Color copy ribbons, medals, stipes, etc. Use them for borders or in place of stickers and die-cuts. Try placing them on paper that is the same color as the uniform and matting some of the pictures with the same color paper.
• Copy some headlines off CNN to show what was going on in the world at the time.

Oath of Enlistment

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Wait, Please

If only all the winds, could wait,
And the songs remain unsung,
The laughter stop
The crying cease
The loving remain still until
I come home.

If the children would stop growing,
And I stop aging;
The birds nest.
The fish sleep on the bottom of the streams
The clouds withhold their rain until
I come home.

If all the world was silent
Except this small corner where we war
Then when we come home, awaken
So that we had not missed a heartbeat
Of our real lives.

Taps

Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.

Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.

Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.

Sun has set, shadows come,
Time has fled, scouts must go to their beds
Always true to the promise that they made.

While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To Thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend.

Soldier, Rest

(Sir Walter Scott)

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Dream of battled fields no more.
Days of danger, nights of waking.

Marines Hymn

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 ev'ry 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 United States Marines.

Phonetic ABC's

These words are used by the military and others when they have to spell out a word to make it clear in a radio transmission. Usually this is used when words or letters have a similar sound.

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu