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Spacer's Blog: 2015/05
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Memorial Day Post 2015. It's late for the Memorial Day observance this year, but early for next year! I saw lots of stuff on Facebook and Twitter, some good, but far too many angry or guilt ridden. The best may have been from Terminal Lance. If you aren't reading this comic, start now), a repost of his 2012 comic and accompanying post. 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.
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Spacer's Blog: 2010/05
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An Early Memorial Day Post. Annual Memorial Day poem posted a little early. For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon. With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,. England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,. Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal. Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,. There is music in the midst of desolation. And a glory that shines upon our tears. They fell with their faces to the foe.
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Spacer's Blog: 2013/09
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Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. The OFFICIAL Dilbert Widget. Spacer's Fiction and Other Writing. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. German safety video or forklift massacre? Generate your Cyborg Name. The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army. Engineer married with child(ren) bored enough to create a blog. View my complete profile.
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Spacer's Blog: 2015/04
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Smells Like Teen Spirit revisited. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. The OFFICIAL Dilbert Widget. Spacer's Fiction and Other Writing. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. German safety video or forklift massacre? Generate your Cyborg Name. The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army. Engineer married with child(ren) bored enough to create a blog. View my complete profile. Smells Like Teen Spirit revisited.
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Spacer's Blog: 2011/05
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I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;. Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth. Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things. You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung. High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,. I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung. My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue. I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Links to this post. Today,...
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Spacer's Blog: Memorial Day Poem 2014
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Memorial Day Poem 2014. For this year's Memorial Day poem, here are the lyrics for Sgt. Mckenzie, from the We Were Soldiers soundtrack. My favorite song from one of my favorite war movies. By Joseph Kilna Mckenzi. In memory of Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie, Seaforth Highlanders. Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
. Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
. Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
. Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
. When they come a wull staun ma groon
. Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
. Where before m...
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Spacer's Blog: 2012/03
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Semper Fi, Corporal. As I read some of the linked articles, it really struck home. I have been thinking about this all day. They took him from Midway Airport. I almost always fly into Chicago via Midway). They took him to Brother Rice High School. His alma mater and mine (class of '89 for me). They played Taps. They took him to Saint John Fisher Parish. On 102nd and Washtenaw, which is only a mile from the first house I lived in (behind Steuber's florist shop. Links to this post. Follow me on Twitter.
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Spacer's Blog: 2010/04
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She's got the big guns. On my recent trip to an undisclosed location, I managed to visit the USS Missouri Memorial. It was a nice tour, especially if you like warships with 16" guns (that's 406.4 mm to you SI types). I took some photographs with the phone. Check them out. This is what you see as you approach the ship from the port side. You can never fly too many US flags. This photo is from the bow, near the anchor chains, looking aft toward 6 of the biggest mobile guns in the world. Links to this post.
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Spacer's Blog: Memorial Day Thoughts 2014
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Memorial Day Thoughts 2014. Here are links to some articles with the casualty list:. Http:/ www.airforcetimes.com/article/20110429/NEWS/104290302/DoD-identifies-8-killed-Kabul-shooting. Http:/ www.airforcemag.com/features/personnel/pages/box050911airmen.aspx. Here are some other links to the incident: http:/ www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/04/afghan pilot kills 8.php#. Http:/ abcnews.go.com/International/afghan-pilot-disarmed-killed-americans-argument/story? Extortion 17 shoot down:. Engineer marrie...
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Spacer's Blog: Memorial Day 2011
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I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;. Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth. Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things. You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung. High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,. I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung. My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue. I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Follow me on Twitter.