The Pat Tillman Run

PAT’S RUN STARTED 10 YEARS AGO.
IN 2014, WE’LL RUN HARDER THAN EVER.

Pat’s Run is held in late April to commemorate the day Pat lost his life in Afghanistan serving with the 75th Ranger Regiment. Symbolic of the #42 he wore as an ASU Sun Devil, Pat’s Run is 4.2 miles long, ending on the 42-yard line of Frank Kush Field inside Sun Devil Stadium.

Donations from the race directly support the Tillman Military Scholars program, which provides scholarships to U.S. military veterans and spouses who reflect Pat’s values, strength of character, and commitment to service.

To mark the 10th Anniversary of Pat’s Run, we encourage each participant to fund-raise $100 in support of Tillman Military Scholars. The more we raise, the more we can help these outstanding Americans impact our country for years to come.

Link to Got Your 6 for information about the run and other ways to support/advocate The Tillman Military Scholars, including a Shadow Run.

English: U.S. Army Rangers with the 75th Ranger Regiment make up the “honor platoon” in a funeral procession service at West Point, NY, Sept. 27, 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Picture of the Day: The Calypso Pass

US Air Force, Calypso Pass, NICE!

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THE CALYPSO PASS

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brandon Shapiro

Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 Fighting Falcons execute a precision acrobat technique known as a Calypso Pass for a crowd March 23, 2014, at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. The Thunderbirds performed for more than 185,000 during the MacDill AFB presents Tampa Bay AirFest 2014.

The Calypso Pass is when two planes flying at high-speed perform a mirror image. Interestingly, the Guinness World Record for closest Calypso Pass belongs to Major Scottie Zamzow and Major Brian Farrar of the 2005 Thunderbirds. They were a mere 18 inches (45 cm) apart! The feat was accomplished on 12-13 November 2005 at the Aviation Nation Air Show in Nellis, Las Vegas. [source]

The Thunderbirds are the air demonstration squadron of the United States Air Force (USAF). The Thunderbirds are assigned to the 57th Wing and are based…

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What Must be Done

Artemis Reynard originally shared:  via: Google Plus

 

Greetings Fellow American Citizens–

NEVER take the rights & freedom each of us has secured & intact within this amazingly beautiful country of ours for granted.
The men & women, our veterans, who stood up & who still are, to secure those rights & freedom gave very much of themselves in doing so.
Hold no doubt–Freedom is NEVER Free.

Have you thanked a veteran?

Join your fellow Americans in putting our gratitude into action & in uniting our voices collectively in standing up for the rights of ALL those who stood up for the rights & freedom of this entire country. Follow my page as well as +Gulf War Syndrome (Glenn Stewart) ‘s page for details posted daily, as well as multiple times throughout each day, on how you too can join your fellow Americans in standing up to secure our veterans rights & to demand our politicians, the VA Department & the DoD DO WHAT MUST BE DONE to keep our veterans rights intact & set into motion, effective immediately, all necessary & long overdue reforms needed to respectfully do right by ALL our veterans as should have never been in question in the first place.

This fight for our veterans has been far too long overdue.
The time to secure & fight for their rights is NOW & WE MUST BE RELENTLESS.

Thank you to each of you for genuinely caring enough to join in the teamwork to fight the just fight for ALL our veterans in a battle they should never have had to contend with. Your time & efforts are sincerely appreciated. 

Veterans Day (Photo credit: The U.S. Army)

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To those in the service of this country.

A wonderful tribute to our warriors.

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They were heroic and yet silent. They said little and did so much.

Their chest expanded in pride and their eyes sharp on the scope.

They were in all levels, all colors, all language, and yet they communicated the same language of hope and charity, of bravery and the ability to conquer fear.

When the day was the darkest and the noise so great the brain could not think, they focused on their mission.

Their power was in their arms, their minds and their souls,

They represented the best this country has to offer, and they require so little in return.

Many now so old, their wrinkles on their brows, their minds filled with images they try to forget,

Yet deep in their bodies, the struggle to stand erect, to salute the flag, not to falter or sway in the wind.

We owe them so much and can never repay…

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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

 

 

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d is a long poem in the form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) in 1865. It is a 206-line poem written in free verse and employing many of the devices and conceits of the pastoral elegy. The poem was written in the Summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865. Despite the poem being an elegy to the fallen president, Whitman neither mentions Lincoln by name nor discusses the circumstances of his death. Instead, Whitman uses a series of rural and natural imagery including the symbols of the lilacs, a drooping star in the western sky (Venus), and the hermit thrush, and employs the traditional progression of the pastoral elegy in moving from grief toward an acceptance and knowledge of death. The poem also addresses the pity of war through imagery vaguely referencing the American Civil War (1861–1865) which ended only days before the assassination.

O Captain! My Captain!

“O Captain! My Captain!” is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman, about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. The poem was first published in the pamphlet Sequel to Drum-Taps which assembled 18 poems regarding the American Civil War, including another Lincoln elegy, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d. It was included in Whitman’s comprehensive collection Leaves of Grass beginning with its fourth edition published in 1867.  [Source]

Lincoln is shot: 1865

 

On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.  The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.