militaryangels

Be an angel to our men and women who paid the ultimate price to ensure our freedom. Please use my guestbook or email me a message you would like to leave for our military men and women.

      The number of americans still missing and
     unaccounted for from the Vietnam war is 1798.
                          We must never forget

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”

1914 - 1918 WWI

Number of casualties: 126,000

1941-1945 World War II

Number of casualties: 408306

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1950-1953 Korean War

Number of casualties: 54246

The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight!
MGen. Frank E. Lowe, USA; Korea, 26 January 1952

1957-1975 Vietnam War

Number of casualties: 58219

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places 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 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
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
Listed as KIA February 7, 1978

1990 -1991 Operation Desert Storm

Number of casualties: 148

"Achieving our goals will require sacrifice and time, but we will prevail. Make no mistake about that."
George Bush
February 1, 1991

This is My Country

This is my county that I am prepared to defend with my life.
I want to make this country a safer place for my children and my wife.
This is my country and on this soil, you have taken
the lives of innocent children, women and men.
I fear not for my life, but freedom, liberty and justice I will proudly defend.
This is a great country that God has blessed down through the years.
We may be slightly scared and hurt, but faith will dry away our tears.
Standing tall and proud, if we must sacrifice for our freedoms
than for this country let us give.
This is the home of the free and the brave and this is where we live.

Curtis J. Garrette
Captain, MP
HHD, Commander
Baghdad, Iraq

2001 - ? Operation Enduring Freedom

Number of casualties:
Iraq: 3596
Afghanistan: 350