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Some Idea’s For A Veteran’s Day Song

Here are some ideas and lyrics for a cool Veteran's Day song

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Verse 1

Onward, Christian soldiers marched to war,

With a different way before Jesus.

Christ the Royal Master, leads against the enemy

Forward in the fight to see His banners, Go!

Pidättyvät

Onward, Christian soldiers marched to war,

With a different way before Jesus.

Jae 2

Sign of victory at Satan's it is to escape from the host

Then, Christian soldiers to victory!

Hell's foundations Quiver is a shout of thanks

Brothers bring their own voices, loud your Anthems raised.

Pidättyvät

Onward, Christian soldiers marched to war,

With a different way before Jesus.

Verse 3

Like mighty army moves the church of God

Brethren, we have gone where the saints have walked.

We are not divided, all one body we,

One of hope and doctrine, one in charity.

Pidättyvät

Onward, Christian soldiers marched to war,

With a different way before Jesus.

Verse 4

What Scriptures said, I do not think that is true.

What is sacred, believed that faith also.

Long as the earth endureth, men believe in organizing,

Kingdoms, nations, empires, the destruction rolled.

Pidättyvät

Onward, Christian soldiers marched to war,

With a different way before Jesus.

Verse 5

Crowns and thrones may perish, the kingdom rise and wane,

But Jesus still ongoing.

The gates of hell can never gainst that church, there is

We are Christ's own commitment, and that can not fail.

Pidättyvät

Onward, Christian soldiers marched to war,

With a different way before Jesus.

Jae 6

Ahead, then, ye people, join the happy throng,

The merging of our own voices victory song.

Honor, praise and respect to Christ the king,

This through countless ages men and angels sing.

Pidättyvät

Onward, Christian soldiers marched to war,

With a different way before Jesus.

Old Veteran’s Alone

My father's Army uniform came three pieces: jacket, slacks and button-up shirt. It was 50 percent wool and 50 percent polyester and felt strangely resistant to touch, scratchy, without issue. In November 1992, the father went to the bedroom to put it, he for the first time in uniform for 23 years. Ten minutes later he was before the full evening dress for me: the Government of the problem of high ankle lace-up black shoes, black tie and a tight-creased Sandwich Cap. Two hash marks slashed on the right sleeve of his jacket - one for each of the six-months of overseas duty - and a blue braided ribbon looped shoulder and chest, an infantry. Was a combat infantry badge, Jaeger's badge and corrections to rank, unit and division: 25 Infantry Regiment,"Tropic Lightning" \ Division.

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\ "How do I look?"He asked me to draw the cap low on his brow. If you didn \ do not know my father, you can never guess how she really felt uncomfortable, he was so good to hide his doubts. Although the drive 50, he was like a steady state and the military, because he had been a 20 He looked dignified, in total. When I hugged him, he does not crease.

This was the year my father came in his first Veterans Day Parade. He was drafted in 1967 and spent the 1968 placed between the jungles of Cambodia and Saigon. A few months of his tour, he volunteered as a tunnel rat. 5 feet 8 inches and 140 pounds, my father, a small and strong, and was the perfect size for tunneling. Tunnels - for hospitals, kitchens and sleeping Chambers - shelter thousands of Vietcong during the war. Tunnel exploration is a dangerous, high casualties, but my father wanted to do it. He studied at the techniques of experienced tunnel rats. He learned how to become a head above the tunnel and how to remove the pitfall embedded in the clay.

Father came home to Wisconsin in 1969, behind a shrapnel wound and two-pack-day smoking. When his plane landed, no relatives or friends were waiting to greet him. He and his first wife had divorced before he'd left Vietnam, and four brothers had served in the military, none of them did not remember to pick him up. His rude homecoming was something I did not witness (I was born five years later), but the father once told me how lonely she had felt, coming back to nothing and nobody.

A Veteran’s Bravery

The fire was out of control. Soon came the order to sink the ship. In a race against time, was towed into deep waters in Upper New York Bay, where fireboats pumped water into the cargo compartment."Some of the rockets and grenades exploded," New York World-Telegram reported in the article, which appeared up to two years later, a delay that reflected the wartime secrets."That was the question that came to the first boat - fire set off the rest of the explosives or water to sink it."

Water won. Nearly four hours after it caught fire, cargo ship sank in the bay. Not a single death resulted from service.

Time elapsed, and the memory of Esther disappeared. But always stuck in man Mr. Wittek, in New York has never officially recognized the heroism of seafarers. Some received the medal in 1940 from the town of Bayonne, but not from New York, or for that matter, the Coast Guard.

\ "It was the second world war," said Mr. McGranachan explains the loss of official confirmation."A lot of the things that could slide just because the enormity of the situation."

On this Veterans Day, will finally be corrected oversight. America, as we have said, not presidents of those who serve in uniform, but it tries to forget them.

Mr. Wittek, long retired from the fur industry, and now living in Ossining, NY, received the Coast Guard Commendation Medal for"outstanding success" that day 65 years ago. On Tuesday, Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., commander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area, is scheduled to present hexagonal medal at a ceremony at Pier 86 in Manhattan, where he anchored a freshly repaired aircraft carrier Intrepid.

Coast Guard looked for others to honor, but"could not find anyone other than me," Mr. Wittek said by telephone."This is a tragedy."

His friends there in spirit, though."This is not really for me," he said with a catch in her voice."I'm going to say that I accept on behalf of all my friends. It's for the other guys."

A Veteran Given Recognition Years Later

America may advantage those who fight the war, but does not vote for them. Not for the highest office, anyway. Not for a long time.

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On Veterans Day, it is noteworthy that for the fifth straight presidential elections, a candidate with no military background, or at most a small, defeated a man who had gone to war. The draft-ducking Bill Clinton prevailed over George HW Bush and Bob Dole, who both saw the World War II action. George W. Bush, who joined the Texas Air National Guard as a sure way to avoid war duty in Vietnam, hit two Vietnam veterans, Al Gore and John Kerry. Now Barack Obama has never in uniform, prevailed over John McCain, who for years as a prisoner of war.

Perhaps it is time to inject a dose of reality in the four annual debate on the resume for a politician who would prefer to be commander in chief. It is clear that, despite all the campaign blather to the contrary, a serious military record is not required.

But voting is one thing. Them is another. In another Veterans Day, America is a tribute to those who served, including some achievements were recognized far too long. Someone, such as Seymour Wittek. You can read about him in this column last May

During World War II, the Brooklyn born Mr. Wittek, now 87, was Seaman Second Class Wittek of the United States Coast Guard, assigned to an ammunition detail in Jersey City. He and his buddies loaded bombs and ammunition for the U.S. troops fighting in Europe. A ship filled with explosives that she was El Estero, a freighter of Panamanian registry linked to a New Jersey pier.

On April 24, 1943, the Estero fire below decks. It is impossible to overestimate how serious this was.

About 5,000 tons of bombs, depth charges and small arms ammunition was stored in the Estero and nearby ships and railroad cars. If the Estero exploded - and the possibility was fierce - a chain reaction could have swallowed all that spread to ammunition and fuel storage tanks in Bayonne, New Jersey, and Staten Island. The explosion would have been enormous. Later estimates of potential casualties on both sides of the Hudson reaches into the thousands, even tens of thousands.

Besides the massacre,"the course of history might have changed," said James J. McGranachan, a civilian spokesman for the coastguard."It would shut down the port. If you think of all supplies that came from New York, would have had to land at Normandy" - D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Without blinking, Seaman Wittek and dozens of his fellow volunteer sailors aboard the burning ship and try to extinguish the fire, which was later found to have been caused accidentally. On the deck, he reminded the heat from below was so intense that he could feel through the soles of his shoes.

New Burdens for Soldiers When They Come Home

Similarly, while Odysseus is lost at sea, his son, Telemachus, embarks on a voyage of discovery, also seeking out his father's former comrades, but those who lived to return. First of these is old Nestor, a veteran of many campaigns, now at home in sandy Pylos. No mortal man could "tell the whole of it,” says Nestor of the years at Troy, where "all who were our best were killed.” In Sparta, Menelaus, whose wife, Helen, was the cause of the war, is haunted by the losses: "I wish I lived in my house with only a third part of all/these goods, and that the men were alive who died in those days/in wide Troy land.”
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Odysseus' own memories are more potent. Amongst the kindly Phaiakians, who give him hospitality toward the end of his hard voyage, he listens to the court poet sing of the Trojan War's "famous actions/of men on that venture.” Odysseus, taking his mantle in his hands, "drew it over his head and veiled his fine features/shamed for the tears running down his face.”
And most significantly, epic tradition hints at the dilemmas of military commemoration. In "The Iliad,” Achilles must choose between kleos or nostos — glory or a safe return home. By dying at Troy, Achilles was assured of undying fame as the greatest of all heroes. His choice reflects an uneasy awareness that it is far easier to honor the dead soldier than the soldier who returns. Time-tested and time-honored, the commemoration rites we observe each Memorial Day — the parades and speeches and graveside prayers and offerings — represent a satisfying formula of remembrance by the living for the dead that was already referred to as "ancient custom” by Thucydides in the fifth century B.C.
The commemoration of the veteran — the survivor who did not fall on the field of war — is less starkly defined. The returned soldier, it is hoped, will grow old and die among us, like Nestor, in whose time "two generations of mortal men had perished.” In our own times, the generation born in the optimistic aftermath of World War II has already encountered veterans of both world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf war and our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — and still has several decades of martial possibilities in reserve. As the earlier of those wars recede into the past, their old soldiers fade away; and thus, commemorative rites for the veteran — by definition, the survivor — also tend to end, perversely, at graves.
How to commemorate the living veteran? Again, some guidance can be found in epic, the crucible of heroic mores. Old Nestor, the iconographic veteran, is a teller of many tales of the many battles he once waged. "In my time I have dealt with better men than/you are, and never once did they disregard me,” he tells the entire Greek army in "The Iliad.” "I fought single-handed, yet against such men no one/could do battle.” Although he is a somewhat comic figure, his speeches are deadly earnest; Old Nestor knows that his is the only voice to keep memory of such past campaigns alive.
One suspects such lengthy recitations are rare today. Rarer still is the respectful audience enjoyed by Nestor; impatience with such reminiscences began well before our age. "Menelaus bold/waxed garrulous, and sacked a hundred Troys/'Twixt noon and supper,” wrote Rupert Brooke, cynically, during the years leading up to a later Great War.

Adjusting To Normal Life a Struggle for Some Veterans

Washed on the shores of his island home, after 10 years'lack of foreign wars and 10 years of hard travel in foreign lands, Ulysses, Literature's most famous veteran, staring around him:"But now the glorious Odysseus awoke from sleep in his own country, and he did not know it, / have been long gone. "In addition, the goddess Athena cast a veil of mist over all the famous landmarks, making"Do anything / other than it was. "" Ah me, "sighs Ulysses,"what are the people whose country I have come to this time? "

This sense of dislocation has been the veterans returned from the field of war since Homer conjured Ulysses'sinister back about 2800 years ago. Its annoying power highlighted on Thursday when a military psychiatrist who had examined the mental scars of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan went on a shooting rampage at an army base in Texas.

Who is a veteran, and how he stands in relation to his country and people? This question is still relevant for them to walk in parades this week on Veterans Day in the U.S. and Armistice Day in Europe, and the ever decreasing number of spectators who applaud them. In theory, celebrates Veterans Day event, which brutally clear that victory - the survival. The practice is November 11, clouded by ambiguous symbolism, and has become our most embarrassing holiday.

The major theme of"The Odyssey" - the return of the veteran to his home - the only survivor, and undoubtedly the greatest epic example of what was apparently a popular theme in ancient times. Another poem, now lost,"Nostoi" or"Return", was an epic uncertain authorship, which was said to have included five books and traced the homecomings of the veterans of the Trojan War by the Greek Commander in Chief, Agamemnon, his brother Menelaus, the aged counselor Nestor, the priest Calchas, the hero Diomedes, and even Achilles'son Neoptolemus.

The Greek word Nostos, which means"home", is the root of our English"Nostalgia" (along with algos - "evil" or"sorrow"). Content and character'Nostoi "are now impossible to measure, all we know about it comes from a late, possibly fifth century quick and stray fragments. Some of the most famous of these traditional veterans \ stories, however, survived in later, non-epic works.

Aeschylus'towering tragedy"Agamemnon", held in 458 BC, focuses on King's return from Troy to his palace in Argos, where he is murdered in his bath by his wife Clytemnestra. Virgil's"Aeneid" relates travails of the famous heroic veteran Trojan Aeneas, which must be after the destruction of their city by the Greek victories, making a new home in some other foreign country.

But it is"The Odyssey" which most directly probes the theme for the veteran's return. Threaded through this tale story, right in the historical touchstone, is remarkable scenes deals with aspects of the war veteran's experience is disconcertingly familiar to our own time. Odysseus returns home to a place he does not recognize, and then find their estates overrun with young men with no experience of war. During his long journey back, he has responded to every stranger with elaborate caginess, concocting stories about who he is and what he has seen and done - the real war, he keeps to himself.

Veterans Frustrated By Wait for GI Bill

Thousands of veterans who flocked to colleges and universities around the service in Iraq and Afghanistan waiting for GI Bill benefits, some frantically scrambling to pay rent, food and textbooks.

Delays due to the large number of applications for Department of Veterans Affairs from 1 August, when the most extensive educational benefits for veterans after World War II came into force.

Tom Tiefry, Eastern Michigan University student and U.S. Marine, was among thousands waiting for their money. Without any income, veteran of the war in Afghanistan has been draining their savings, can't move from his mother's home in Gibraltar, and hopes his beat-up 1994 Chevrolet Camaro driven not survive winter Michigan.

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\ "It's very frustrating,"said Tiefry, 23

He made the commitment of his country for four years of service and delays in the views of its assets GI Bill as a government is not honoring its commitment to him.

\ "My word is good,"said Tiefry."But this was not the'ta, as their"was. It never crossed my mind that these things could happen."

Veterans Affairs officials pledged this week to get their students benefit. Number of veterans with claims unprocessed is less than 5000 - down from tens of thousands - and the goal is to have them all processed by the end of the year, officials said.

\ "We continue to work with schools on a daily basis to make sure that did not deny a student attends class as a result of delays in payment of tuition,'VA spokesperson Katie Roberts said."It'sa VA a top priority to ensure that students can concentrate on their studies rather than their bank accounts. "

\ "It's People's life'

The new GI Bill benefits cover the cost of the largest public university tuition - paid to school - and also pay housing benefit directly to veterans - worth about $ 1300 per month in Michigan - and the $ 1000 annual book scholarship.

Delays in the living allowances represent some veterinarians must take a loan to support their families. Others must go to the bank to eat food, one mother received eviction notice, said Derek Blumke, president of Student Veterans of America, which has been meeting with VA officials in Washington about the problems.

\ "It's not just the dollar, it's not just a number, it's People's life,"said Blumke, University of Michigan students.

Veterans Affairs is under enormous stress due droves Veterans - VA officials assessed this summer reached 460,000 or 20 per cent to 25 per cent increase compared to last year. But the complexity of the formula used to determine what the veteran has received, and clunky information technology system to VA means any claim, which takes about 90 minutes to process manually on four different computer systems.

“Sunday Bloody Sunday” A Great Song For Any Site

We are choosing U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to be our theme song. Here are the song lyrics:

Yes

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight we can be as one, tonight

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Companies Reach Out to Help Veterans

Corporate America has joined forces with the country's veterans to provide knowledge and guidance they need to rejoin the civilian workforce."They have the experience and character and all the military capabilities that are valuable to employers," said Army Major Robert Lee, the employer's initiative, program manager for the Army National Guard for Employment and Education Outreach Branch.

\ "They are the instructors and teachers and leaders, and they know how to motivate men and women to be productive. That's what these guys take to work."

Lee's office mission is to create employment and educational opportunities and programs for soldiers by using his military training, leadership experience, skills and training work with civilian employers, schools and other agencies.

Lee said that the division has developed a national job bank to help soldiers find jobs for unemployed, underemployed, must change their career or finding a new job.

\ "The employer is a partner initiative, we have approximately 840 employer partners already," Lee said."You can search for jobs or geographic area."

They also see opportunities to collaborate with industry. For example, helmets to Hardhats for veterans interested in the construction industry.

Another program American Corporate Partners, a nationwide mentoring program dedicated to helping veterans transition from military to private companies. They provide career counseling and networking with professionals from some of America's largest companies, according to their website.

A veteran is a good investment for American companies, because they may have a direct and positive impact on production, Lee said."All these skills and experiences that servicemen and women bring to corporate America, saving time and money."

It is important for corporate America to reach out to veterans,"(de), on their time and service to our country," Lee said."It's the right thing to do."

Medical Awards for Helping Vets

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has won top national honors in the independent Institute for Safe Medication Practices for its excellence in the prevention of medication errors.

Called the "Cheers Award" to honor individuals, organizations, enterprises and government agencies that set the high level of retention in patients with safe and more effective medications.

What began as a stroke of genius is part of the VA nurses are watching the rental car employee to scan a bar code has become a widely used tool for reducing medication errors in public and private hospitals. This year marks the VA's milestone 10 years scanning the barcode patient wristbands and drug packages to ensure a safe and effective treatment.

VA's bar-code program has received similar recognition Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, and the Federal Technology Leadership Award