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Take Two

Since JD's wifey(hehe) posted something close to what I had intended to post this morning I'll  go with this one...

 

I'm very empathic when someone close to me is in a dark mood, is sad, is in real emotional distress I feel it. Sometimes the emotions on this site get to be too much and I have to exit stage right (never left...)

What I want to say is to every man who has a best friend of the opposite sex  who he loves dearly...

 

A lot of people breaking hearts these days giving up and just walking away
Forever's just another word that you hear young lovers say, I know it may be old fashioned, but I still believe, love stays when the strong winds blow rven when it hurts, don't let go....

A good woman ain't easy to find, the faithful and the loving kind,and if you don't hold her tight, she'll slip right through your hands, love gives more than it take so be willing for her sake, stand by her when the strong winds blow, even when it hurts, don't let go...

She's your best friend and you love her, so if you want to keep her, take good care of her
If you treat her right, show her you care when you need her, she'll be there
Like an island in the storm, a beacon in the night  if you love her treat her right...
Treat her right!

 

(Big Thanks to Sawyer Brown for the lyrics)


America Listen!

Complete version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (AKA the National Anthem) by Francis Scott Key

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright
stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that
our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half
conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - "In God is our trust," 
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!!

I'm posting this because this country is headed for an all out nonsensical race war!
Let's talk some facts.  This poem was written on September 13th 1814 During the war of 1812 after 25 hours of the bombarment of Fort McHenery.  Key wrote this poem when "in the dawns early light" he saw the American flag NOT the Union Jack, waving, indicating an American war  won.  
The last stanza of this poem speaks of freemen ,in those days freemen was a reference to black  people, and how they too fought along with white soilders so this country could be free from British tyranny.

And then in 1861 The Civil War began. it was a long fought war where once again whites people and black people fought together.


Black Confederate military units, both as freemen and slaves, fought federal troops.
Louisiana free blacks gave their reason for fighting in a letter written to New Orleans' Daily Delta: "The free colored population love their home, their property, their own slaves and recognize no
other country than Louisiana, and are ready to shed their blood for her defense. They have no sympathy for Abolitionism; no love for the North, but they have plenty for Louisiana. They will  fight for her in 1861 as they fought in 1814-15." As to bravery, one black scolded the commanding general of the state militia, saying, "Pardon me, general, but the only cowardly blood we have got  in our veins is the white blood."
 

Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest had slaves and freemen serving in units under his command.  After the war, Forrest said of the black men who served under him, "These boys stayed with me..

To some southerners, thier slaves weren't just slaves, they were family!  Loved and cared for. Even after the Civil war and the Emancipation Proclamition was signed and ratified some "slaves" chose to stay with the plantation owners as indentured servants because that's the ONLY life and  family they had ever known.  It's been a 152 years since the Civil War was fought and while yeah racism still exits in some peoples small minds it's not in the hearts of everyone's.  Instead of burning bridges with anger and hate towards each other, let's build bridges with love and understanding, become AT&T and reach out to each other and just say hi.  And to the people
who have hate in your heart for people...let me be the first to be Eddy Murphy and say...HAVE A COKE AND SMILE AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!

 

(If you see me as a racist for this YOU'RE the racist, there is absolutely NOTHING here that's racist, just some basic historical facts.

                                                                           ****RANT****

Ladies and Gentlemen when in the course of human events it becomes necessary to leave your home and go to the grocery store, work or social function there are things one must do before going out into the public at large.

First: Shower!!
Second: Put on Deodorant/Antiperspirant
Especially when temperatures are 90+ or in the case of Texas temperatures 102 degrees with a heat index to match which makes it seem like 104! And there are days where it's been hotter than that. WEAR Deodorant/Antiperspirant! If the one you normally use is ineffective find a new one! There are many different kinds on the market!

Third: Colognes and perfumes: These are to be spritz on and not poured on or bathed in. They are not to replace a shower! For the love of GOD stop wearing so much the rest of us gag! Oh and I also have to mention for both men and woman. Patchouli was once used as a roach spray and some of y'all wear it as a cologne or perfume. It smells like raid. STOP IT!

 

I've been kinda silent about all this but now I have to speak up. And this is kinda long...

Flags of the Confederacy: The Stars and Bars, Three horizontal stripes of equal height, alternating red and white, with a blue quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton are white five-pointed stars of equal size, arranged in a circle and pointing outward.

This is the national flag of the Confederate States which are as follows: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. And then there is The Stainless Banner it's A white rectangle two times as wide as it is tall, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire. And then there is Blood Stained Banner. Here's where the second two flags differ...

The Stainless Banner is one of hatred and white supremacy but it was abolished in 1865 and replaced with the Blood Stained Banner. On the Blood Stained Banner: A white rectangle two times as wide as it is tall, a much darker red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire. The darker red was used to signify that even blacks fought in the Southern States and for the Southern States.

The Flag everyone suddenly wants abolished is about ALL southerners not just whites. Now my high school was mixed and the "N" word was never used, we all got along and I have black friends. We have this racism thing popping up all over this country. If we as citizens of America look at our leaders and tell them that not all white people hate black people and not all black people hate all white people, maybe, just maybe, our President (Dear God is it 2016 yet?!) and his wife would both shut up and let us all get back to being Americans again and not seeing the color of each others skin but the beauty within then and only then can we say we once again live in a free country.

No one will read this but I've said it.

Memorial Day

JUST A COMMON SOLDIER (A Soldier Died Today) by A. Lawrence Vaincourt

He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past. Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done, In his exploits with his buddies; they were heroes, every one. And tho' sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke, All his Legion buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke. But we'll hear his tales no longer for old Bill has passed away, And the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today.

He will not be mourned by many, just his children and his wife, For he lived an ordinary and quite uneventful life. Held a job and raised a family, quietly going his own way, And the world won't note his passing, though a soldier died today. When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state, While thousands note their passing and proclaim that they were great. Papers tell their whole life stories, from the time that they were young, But the passing of a soldier goes unnoticed and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution to the welfare of our land A guy who breaks his promises and cons his fellow man? Or the ordinary fellow who, in times of war and strife, Goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life? A politician's stipend and the style in which he lives Are sometimes disproportionate to the service that he gives. While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all, Is paid off with a medal and perhaps, a pension small. It's so easy to forget them for it was so long ago, That the old Bills of our Country went to battle, but we know It was not the politicians, with their compromise and ploys, Who won for us the freedom that our Country now enjoys. Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand, Would you want a politician with his ever-shifting stand? Or would you prefer a soldier, who has sworn to defend His home, his kin and Country and would fight until the end?

He was just a common soldier and his ranks are growing thin, But his presence should remind us we may need his like again. For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start. If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise, Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days. Perhaps just a simple headline in a paper that would say, Our Country is in mourning, for a soldier died today.

 

© 1987 A. Lawrence Vaincourt

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