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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 25, 2018 8:23:30 GMT -5
Michigan dad taking his kids to high school football game, was late and they were hurrying across the parking lot, National Anthem started playing and he looked and saw these 3 boys stop, take their caps off, hands to their heart, it was so powerful to him he took a picture. Amen   |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 25, 2018 8:27:16 GMT -5
I would hazard a guess that you wouldn't see that often. Good on them.
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Post by papipeguy on Sept 25, 2018 9:08:17 GMT -5
That does gladden my heart.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 25, 2018 9:14:18 GMT -5
Those young men were raised right.
Nice to see that. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2018 9:33:40 GMT -5
I know quite a few young men and women who are like that. It is encouraging.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 25, 2018 9:39:48 GMT -5
Every so often I see things in our youth that give me hope. Last funeral I attended had over 100 Eagle Scouts in attendance. A truly inspiring sight.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 25, 2018 10:40:11 GMT -5
That was a benefit of growing up on military bases when I was a kid... a lot of great models of behavior whenever the anthem played, and taps was sounded.
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Post by Dramatwist on Sept 25, 2018 12:46:19 GMT -5
...whatever your political beliefs, it is difficult not to tear up when you witness young people honoring the flag and the country and all that it means...
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Post by puffy on Sept 25, 2018 13:30:30 GMT -5
Great numbers of people have given their lives for this country.I love my country.I wouldn't want to live any place else..I have great respect for the flag..I have 2 in my yard..The flag that was on my wife's fathers coffin is folded up in a glass case on a table in my living room. I'm not sure though how folks should draw attention to the problems in this country that don't seem to be getting fixed. Not respecting the flag and the National Anthem though is not the way it should be done.
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Post by unknownpipesmoker on Sept 25, 2018 13:35:36 GMT -5
I was in the military and stop and stand at attention every time the flag is raised or lowered or the national anthem is played.
I do it for everyone who didn't come home or didn't come home in one piece or in a worse way than before they signed into indebted servitude to uncle sam.
We're the only species on the planet that does this to each other in huge organised hoards like this. Food for thought.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Sept 25, 2018 16:06:34 GMT -5
It is a good thing to see. That was a benefit of growing up on military bases when I was a kid... a lot of great models of behavior whenever the anthem played, and taps was sounded. Taps is a tough one for me. I've heard it many times before, but when I heard it played at my grandfathers funeral it took everything I had to keep it together. I miss him daily. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 25, 2018 16:15:47 GMT -5
My first memory of taps I was 5 years old, our country neighbors boy came back from the war 1948, in a box. Buried in a country cemetery on a hill, about 8 families there, Grandpaw holding my hand, his boy had come home, guns firing , scared me, looked up and only ever time I saw my Grandfather cry.
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Post by Matthew on Sept 25, 2018 16:33:50 GMT -5
A couple years before he died,
my Brother,with a helping hand,stood for the
Flag in a 4th of July parade.He had been
confined to a wheelchair for about 4 years,
but he ALWAYS stood for the anthem.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2018 16:51:23 GMT -5
Three young men we should be proud of, proper parenting makes the difference. Shows there is hope for the Millennial’s after all🌈
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Post by roadsdiverged on Sept 25, 2018 17:16:30 GMT -5
I was once considered a "millenial." But they just came up with a small group called "xennials." Finally! I've never felt that I fit that category.
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Post by scrooge on Sept 25, 2018 17:20:08 GMT -5
Tears an Pride.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 25, 2018 17:32:40 GMT -5
I was once considered a "millenial." But they just came up with a small group called "xennials." Finally! I've never felt that I fit that category. What's an xennial? Edit: I googled it... That's me, I think. I only read the first line of the definition. |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Sept 25, 2018 17:38:34 GMT -5
77 to 83 I believe it was. Part generation x and part millennial. Most of the time I feel like I should be older than I am. I dont mean health wise. I have always preferred to be around older people anyway.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 25, 2018 17:46:50 GMT -5
I never liked being lumped in as a baby boomer, much younger than most of them and my dad wasn’t a WWII vet, and born in 1960, I wasn’t old enough to be drafted to VietNam. Generation Jones. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 25, 2018 18:10:40 GMT -5
I am a Boomer, no doubt about it. But we are really all very different from each other.
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Post by puffy on Sept 25, 2018 18:20:19 GMT -5
I was old enough for VietNam,but I was married with a kid on the way so I didn't get called.A lot of my friends did.
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Post by morallynomadic on Sept 28, 2018 7:10:47 GMT -5
I tend not to worry about generational classifications. They have always seemed pretty arbitrary to me. Then again, most classifications do. What is the difference between an Ohioan and a West Virginian? An American and a Canadian? Can you be guaranteed to know anything about someone based on a classification?
I prefer to allow someone's being to speak for itself.
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