Saturday, May 19, 2011
Happy Armed Forces Day, Everybody!
The third Saturday in May has been officially designated as the day to salute all of the men and women in all branches of the service who protect you and your country. They can be called upon at a moment’s notice to put their lives on the line to ensure your freedoms, so a little gratitude on your part today wouldn’t hurt.- Each branch of the military used to have its own celebration, but Hurley the Historian says on August 31, 1949 then Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of Armed Forces Day. President Harry Truman also announced the holiday in a presidential proclamation on February 20, 1950. All branches of the military were asked to celebrate on the same day and they complied on the first Armed Forces Day which was held the following year on May 20, 1950.
- And appropriately our Quote for Today Committee has chosen this from Jan Scruggs, Founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: “The Price of Freedom is Never Free.” Luckily Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane found somebody willing to buy lunch for a veteran today.
- Mottos for our service branches include: the Army “This We’ll Defend”; Navy—“Honor, Courage, Commitment”; Air Force— Integrity First; Marine Corps—“Semper Fidelis” (Always Faithful); and the Coast Guard—“Semper Paratus (Always Ready).
Members of the military and their families on food stamps can hardly wait to see how the White House inserts Obama and The Mooch into history and how many gay references Obama makes during his tele-prompted Armed Forces Day Re-election Campaign Proclamation today. The rest of us will probably be watching WGN TV to see Clown Bloq’s 1,000 clowns armed with 1,000 pies in action at the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago.- Our Local Tea Party Patriots have some activist training going on today, but it doesn’t look like saluting all of the men and women who protect our country is a big part of it.
- Cincinnati citizens had been planning a big welcome home parade for local troops on Armed Forces Day. Volunteers had joined together to arrange a heroes’ welcome that our troops wouldn’t soon forget, and people wouldn’t have to take a day off on Saturday to honor our soldiers for their service. But Cincinnati Mayor Mallory rescheduled the event for September 15, 2012, to coincide Black and Gay Streetcars Day.
- Finally in Northern Kentucky, Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo has this heartwarming story about the Bluegrass Battalion returning home last night, just in time for Armed Forces Day:
Six-month old Marley Mather had never seen her father Harley Mather until last night, when he returned home to Boondoggle County with the rest of the 169th Underground Mess Kit Repair Group. PFC Mather, a motor pool specialist, had been in Afghanistan for the past eighteen months. Actually, the unit was only supposed to be in Afghanistan for six months, but one night they all got drunk and the entire unit volunteered to stay an extra year.
When asked by a Channel 19 reporter how it felt to see his six-month old daughter for the first time after being away for a year and a half, Harley beamed: “Now I finally know what the surprise was my wife kept writing me about.”
Celebrating Armed Forces Day
This week, everybody who thinks America should have a day that’s been officially designated to salute each of the men and women in all branches of the service who protect us and our country, e-mailed an entry to the Whistleblower Limerick Contest.
The winner is Harley Mather, Sr. in Boondoggle County, whose son PFC Harley Mather, Jr., will be arriving home on leave any day now to beat up a homeless guy at Maifest in Mainstrasse.
Harley, Sr. wins a US Army baseball cap, a US Navy Seals Sweat Shirt, and a US Marine Corps Beer Mug from Patriotic Exploiters, which will all be great conversation starters at today’s Armed Forces Day Picnic. His winning entry is:
The best way to spend Armed Forces Day
Is to honor those who fight for the American Way.
Wave your flag proudly at a parade
And don’t drink the liberal Kool-Aid
Which has leading us to an advanced state of decay.
The best way to spend Armed Forces Day
That’s if it were a day off with pay
Would be to work in the yard
(Although not very hard)
Then drink lots of beer and get laid.
The best way to spend Armed Forces Day
Is to ignore what the kneepads portray.
They’ll harp on the body bags
’til your patriotism sags,
So just keep Old Glory on display.
And from the Anderson Laureate (who’s waiting to see “Bronze Star Brad’s” big Armed Forces Day Speech at the Anderson Government Center):
The Best Way to Spend Armed Forces Day
Is to get down on your knees and pray
To thank those in the military
Who now reside in the cemetery
For keeping us free in this month of May
The best way to spend Armed Forces Day
Would be remembering the price some had to pay
We’re free and secure
Because of what they had to endure
I’m proud of our military, and that’s all I have to say.
The best way to spend Armed Forces Day
Is driving left-wing protestors away
They mock our military
And they love President Barry
Oh, and 90 percent of them are gay.
ARMED FORCES DAY HOT LINE
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Armed Forces Day 2012
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