Happy New Year

Here's to 2014. My resolution for this blog is to be more active on it. I wish you all a safe and happy 2014. May your worst day in 2014 be better than your best day of 2013!

 

Memorial Day Link Dump

From Fox News a story about America's oldest veteran


From the New York Times a story about LBJ and Gettysburg in 1963

From the Dispatch a story about stolen grave markers

From the Chicago Sun-Times an article about a 96 year old vet finally receiving his medals

From the Dispatch an article about a WWII vet parachuting for his great grandson's benefit

From the Whitehouse Obama's 2013 Memorial Day Proclamation

General Logan's Order from 1868

 

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

As we celebrate this holiday weekend make sure to take a moment and reflect of what the veterans of this country have done for us. If you know a vet thank them for their service. If you have a chance to visit the cemetery please do and pay tribute to those who have given the last full measure of devotion to this country.

 

Happy Mother's Day

Guys, you know what to do. Acknowledge all the women in your life for everything they do for us.

 

Happy Easter

Play a Game!!

Didn't know this thing existed but what the heck. I'm in

 

Have A Blessed Weekend

May you have a blessed Easter Weekend. Spend it with family and friends. Take time to reflect, but also rejoice, on all God has done for you in your life. May the Holy Spirit lead and guide you and may we always be thankful for the empty tomb and the risen Christ wherein lieth our hope. Happy Easter.

 



 

 

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

May you be in heaven a full half hour
before the devil knows your dead.
May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.

 

Happy Holiday!

This kicks off one of the greatest weeks for men of the year. Following up the men's holiday are St. Patrick's Day and March Madness. Sit Back and enjoy the week guys with the lady you love.

Steak and BJ Day was invented by Tom Birdsey, may he live forever, and may the gods eternally bless his fate. Men everywhere should write, and sing, songs in his honor, build shrines and worship at the alter for this man who has been so benevolent as to bless us with a day devoted entirely to devouring massive hunks of cow flesh and being the recipient of one of life's simplest, yet greatest, pleasures. Truly, he is a saint among swine, and deserving of the highest accolades in the worlds beyond.

Happy New Year 2013

Merry Christmas

America the Beautiful

Happy July 4th!! Celebrate with your family and friends. Picnic, cook out, enjoy a game, campout go boating or to a concert. But always remember that God has provided us with the opportunity to live in the greatest country in the world. Thank a veteran or current member of the military. But celebrate the freedoms that we have!!

He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed!

MLK Day 2012

Happy New Year

Happy New Year brothers. Here is hoping 2012 is a great year for us all. I know for me personally I have limped to the finish line. I thank you all for being my friends

Merry Christmas

8And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

9And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

10And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

12And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

14Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Happy Birthday America

Happy July 4th brothers

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Enjoy the days with family and friends. Indy 500, Picnic, cook out, party on. But take a moment to reflect on what this day means to you. Swing by a cemetery and pay respects to those loved ones who have gone before. In the Gettysburg Address it was said by President Lincoln that "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate... we can not consecrate... we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

Buy some small American flags and go decorate an unattended grave of a veteran. General John A. Logan, in his original Memorial Day order, said " Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and found mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice of neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of free and undivided republic." and "Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from dishonor"

Happy Mother's Day

Hey all you bums, be sure to wish your mom and/or wife Happy Mother's Day today. We are nothing without them in our lives.