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Let us remember.It is Memorial Day here in the U.S.
Today is the day we honor those who have given the ultimate price in serving and protecting this nation.
Let us remember and honor them.
Let us remember and honor those they left behind.
I put this together as Kim and Ron remember.
They may be heroes themselves.
But they stop to remember the fallen.
God bless the honored fallen.
God bless their families.
God bless America.
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Wow this just looks like a scene out of the KP fanfic I'm wrighting after they both start doing raids against political armies for the marine core and they remember the 20 fellow soldiers they lost in one of the raids (and Ron got shot 3 times trying to get others out) and Kim got struck with a sword in the back. But 31 plus Ron and Kim survived but they all got shot or struck at least once.
I'm getting off track here excellent job here!
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This is an wonderful way of remembering those on memorial day or any day for that matter, beautiful
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As the aunt of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, I
totally agree with this picture; also, my nephew
went into the service because our cousin was
killed by a joy-riding Middle Easterner wanted to
test an airliner into one of the Twin-Towers, along
with of his buddies.
3000 people died in a Pearl Harbor-style cowardly attack, just because a madman hated the USA.
To top it off, he had no remorse for the 20
hi-jackers he also ordered to die, no one thinks
of that, either. OBL has no regard for his own
peoples' lives, either. He is truly a human monster. But then, a true madman does NOT
care who he hurts.
Happy holiday to you, cap.
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Thanks for the comment, It was for your nephew, your cousin and your family that I made that picture. You and all the others that have meant so much to this country.
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I know this pic was for Memorial day but it all works well for 9/11 as well excellent work.
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Dude...y'know watching Kim Possible it seems rather pro American. It might be just me but this image just seems fitting. Nice job.
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This is awsome! Great job I have family in the Military, plus I am think about going to Navy when I graduate.
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Memorial day is an important day, but you shouldn't sit around whimpering About "lives cut short". if they Died, then it must have just been their time.
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To be honest, I don't really understand bawwwing to the fallen soldiers. I think they'd rather be remembered with pride, honor and joy. But maybe it's just Polish mentality, to be proud of those who died for the country, with that firm, sturdy joy with a hint of sadness, not cry eyes out whimpering about "unneccessary losses". Shit, every death is unneccessary. But I think that crying about their deaths instead of celebrating their devotion to Motherland and courage is taking away some part of their power, their sacrifice.
But again, that may just be my mentality. Still has to be respected.
Also, as far as I know most of the wars USA fought was stupid and unneccessary. I mean, Vietnam? Or now, the Iraq? What the hell are you figting, dying for? Oil?
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I completley agree with you!
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Thanks, it's nice that I have thinkalikes
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i mean seriously, I'm From the U.S, and everyone i know thinks the War is dumb ans pointless! and on the subject of memorial day, these men should be remembered for what they did for the world, not just one nation.
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i mean, Look at what Poland went through, first the Nazis, then the Soviets, if anyone deserves to be remembered for strength and resilience, it's you!
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123 years without own country and we survived. 2 World Wars and we survived. 12.4 promile of alcohol and we survive easily while riding a bike.
Shame we didn't survived in the match againist Germany now, but then, a Pole shot both goals. Traitor.
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Never give up, never let go, never back down, never quit. Fight to the end, until there's one droplet o' blood in your body, stand the fuck up and fight.
For God, Honor, Motherland.
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I meant for Kim and Ron to be remembering the lost, not crying for them. There are no tears on their faces. Just a moment of silence, or maybe a short prayer.
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Well, I was not really saying about Kimster and Ron in here. Rather about strange tendencies of Amerif... Americans. Their bowed heads and expressions just reminded me of this.
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A beautiful background and equally lovely foreground. Very full of emotion. My father was in the Air Force, and while we did not suffer nearly as much as many families usually do, it was still very hard for all of us. I was very small, so I don't remember much, but I do know how hard it was on my mom. My sister was young, and my other sister was just a baby. Dad was working on his medical degree, and he also worked in the emergency room. I think he saw many things he would rather soon forget.
Thank you for this picture.
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ATTENTION!!! SALUTE!!! "A wise man once said war is pointless for it starts by two people that never enters the battle when it starts or ends, but many couragious lives are claimed by their stupidity and very few solutions are made from it."
A beautiful image and true statement...
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a (right-) hand-on-heart salute
both to our flag
and to my brother in Christ
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Beautiful photo Cap. Happy, if slightly late Memorial Day.
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First of all, good pic Captain, it captures the essence of your national holiday. Also, I don\'t usually comment on this kind of pics but here is the reason why I\'m commenting:
There are many mexicans who have died fighting for the US, both in Iraq and in Afghanistan. They serve in the Army, in the USMC, in the navy and in the Airforce.
I find this situation specially tragic, because they left everything in Mexico, they left the legacy they were building in the USA, joined the US military and departed to a far away country, hoping to get the US citizenship (and hoping not to get deported even if they get it) and hoping to receive some grams of respect from the Americans.
Sadly, in the intrinsecaly racist American society, the last never happens. The mexican-born soldiers die in Iraq, as cannon fodder, always sent in front of the Anglos, or even the negritos, so they (mexicans) receive the first bullets.
It is tragic since they are fighting to protect a foreign country, that no matter what the person do, will never be respected, accepted or loved by his/her new co-citizens, just because the color of the skin.
They went to the United States, not looking for freedom, liberty or justice, they went searching for food and a decent life for their families. Many of them crossed powerful rivers, unbeatable deserts, endless roads. They face crazed and racist gunmen hunting them down, unknown towns and cities, they face a language they don\'t comprehend, a society so extrange, so selfish, so cold, so alien.
For years they live in the shadows, doing the jobs nobody wants to do for the wage we ask, living with fear of being in a raid and to be deported, back into the poverty they are escaping from. (cultural note: 35 million mexicans in Mexico live earning 4.5 dollars a day, mexicans living in the USA do the same job for 4.5 dollars an HOUR, just to notify you the situation, Cap\'n, in one day, you earn what you earn in a week) The only chance they have to become regular immigrants or citizens (and to stop being chased) is actually join the US Army.
I admire the bravery and honor of these cuauhteuctli, the Eagle Knights with the color of the earth on their faces (brown), they left everything: family, the Soft Motherland, friends, life, everything, to go and die for a country that actually dislikes them.
But I know that deep inside their jade and golden hearts, of silver and quetzal, they fight for their families, for the ones they love and for a better life. I really know, that when they fight in the name of the USA, they always remember the most beautiful verses ever:
Motherland, Motherland, your children swear
to breathe their last in your honor,
if the trumpet with warlike clamor
should summon them to fight with courage.
For you the olive branches!
A reminder for them of glory!
A laurel of victory for you!
For them a tomb of pure honor!
Thanks for hearing my rant
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I was trained in Advert but being from the valley farm community ended up working again on farms in our area.
Your rant was cute but you do not LIVE it.
I DO the job you say Mexicans do but Americans will not. Not one Mexican worker can even keep up with me. I started doing the hard work as the workers do, and I still do it, I can not tell you how many times I have heard from the Mexican workers to slow down or take a break, because I did not sit down every 5 minutes.
If you want to blame anyone you need to blame the Mexican CONTRACTORS who rob the illegals blind by stealing the cut of money THEY were to get. Oh, BTW, they do not get minimum wage.. they get a cut from the contractor, who BTW is Mexican also, steals the largest part of money from them.
On the ranch which I work my employer does not hire Illegals because they do not work as hard, do not repect the equipment, or the land they work on or the neighboring land next door.
I have seen migrant workers use a Spanish bible as toilet paper, break equipment by not operating it right, get drunk and drive equipment, steal what is not nailed down, and use fields as a dump.
I once worked on a ranch which my employer had a partner who hired illegals , when we had work in co-op farms, and they would get drunk at lunch ay which time I would tell them to get a ride homw and not come back. There where times , I was made forman becuase my employer knew he could trust me to get the work done and to treat everyone fair. Try telling men who should be working and respectful, to work when we needed to, fire them when they drink, or clean up after them. The whole macho attitude they try to give off is lost when they can not even act accordingly.
I have seen FBI come onto land of our partner and take away 2 of his workers who I thought I knew. Came to find out the one that was worth his weight in gold had to leave because he knowingly knew his brother who was forman of that ranch was a murderer and drug dealer wanted in Mexico. Lupe, the little brother, was a hard worker, he and I always tried to work together, I would teach him english and he would teach me "spanish" as he said.
The sad point of it is if you want to come to a new nation and choose NOT to integrate into the culture but try and FORCE your values you were running from, does that not tell you anything? Not all Mexican workers are lazy, nor are they all thieves. But when people can tell when migrant workers are coming or leaving by what is stolen and when the dumping into fields starts that says something. Very sad.
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Very good observation, 
Thanks for saying the post was cute.
Also, I must congratulate you for having the guts to do those jobs, you are an honrous exception, sadly, not all Americans are like you. (If they all were, the illegals hardly would find any job) Notice that I'm saying that they are there Illegaly.
Like there's gold, there's manure. Many of the people who leave the country behave just like you said, but you will have to admit, that the mexicans who join the US Army are not from the kind you are mentioning.
Next time you see the illegal "workers" in your farm tell them: "cabrones, ponganse a trabajar hijos de la chingada, o le hablo ahorita a la pinche migra". That bunch of lazy bastards need some shaking up and some shock therapy, I don't care if they are my paisanos or fellow-countrymen, if they are huevones, they don't deseve the job, period.
They steal? Do what the Aztecs used to punish thieves: cut their hands off, you have my permission. Or use Tehuacanazo (tie the guy, shake a bottle of soda and open it straight into his nose, if he don't die he will learn his lesson)
Now, I commented to honor the good, worhty mexicans who join the US army and die for it, not the lazy ones who barely work for a life and don't have motivation to work.
Greetings comrade!
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I love your comment and found it VERY refreshing! I get so mad when I hear ANYONE putting down people who join the armed forces... It is one of the hardest jobs out there. I loved your punishments! I was rolling! You have one over a new friend!
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That's a pretty jaded rant, even from my point of view.
Once they become soldiers, race no longer means anything. It's as much a tradegy when a soldier named Gonzales is killed as it is when one named Smith is killed. And no branch of the Armed Forces still uses cannon fodder. Every soldier is as likely to die as the man or even woman next to him.
Be certain that the enemy does not discriminate. They are as eager to kill white soldiers, or black soldiers as they are brown soldiers.
Saying that no mexican born soldier will ever be respected in the US is as offensive as stating that every Mexican is a Taco-eating, drug-dealing car thief. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.
So breaking the law is okay? Is it so different from a US citizen entering Mexico illegally? Would they be treated any different? I some how doubt it.
Of course, one wonders why they leave, rather than trying to improve their own homeland. Why seek a future in a strange country instead of fighting for one in their's?
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Wonder if you have ever been outside of your country, or at least tried to cross from USA to Mexico. 
MANY Americans cross illegaly to Tijuana to get drunk (by Illegaly I'm refering they give a bribe to the border guard, from either side, so they don't check IDs. Maybe they don't jump the wall, but is illegal however)
If you are US citizen or you are white enough and you are trying to cross to Mexico, there's no problem, border guards (from both countries) will let you in, 80% of the time without checking your passport, visa or ID, the other 20% of the time, with bribes. The tables turn completely when you try to cross LEGALLY to the US: you are double and triple checked, passport, visa and permission, they ask you what are you going to do there and once you are inside the US, you have your visa and passport constatly checked by ICE
The process to get legally into the US is tortuous in the extreme: you pay 130 dollars for just the CHANCE of being heard before obtaining the visa, then you have to wait at least 4 months before getting the audience in the US embassy or consulate, and even after that the officer in the embassy can reject your solicitude at any given time by any reason (si se le hinchan los webos). If you are accepted you must pay another prime. If you are rejected, you have to wait another year to apply. Tell me, do you really think a wage of 5 dollars per day will be enough to feed a family of five or six, and also to save some money to pay the primes and papers needed to get the American visa? 35 million mexicans can't. Many stay enduring the poverty, many others go.
I have my American Visa, by the way 
By the way, your statement : "Saying that no mexican born soldier will ever be respected in the US is as offensive as stating that every Mexican is a Taco-eating... is extremely questionable: I will give you the link to a news release, showing in a video that two american police officers kill a USMarine, who happened to be mexican born. He complied with everything the cops told him to do, but in the end he was cold-bloodedly killed, if you hear carefully the video, you can hear a cop calling him "beaner", just as he shoots him. Also why is it offensive anyway? Saying the truth is offensive? Racism everywhere (in Mexico there's racism, and a lot too, but you don't see ANY racial related murdering here 
As I said, they leave because of the poverty, low wages, lack of opportunities.
And, responding your last statement: ...rather than trying to improve their own homeland. Why seek a future in a strange country instead of fighting for one in their's If you haven't noticed, you cannot improve Mexico with an empty gut. 
Just to tell you how senseless the situation has become. As a mexican, I take responsability for what I do, and for what I do to improve what I can, but how do you think I feel when the government is against any improving action?
Hazme el chingado favor!
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No, I've never had occasion to cross the border to Mexico. In part because I'm closer to Canada.
Sounds like the guards are corrupt. The latter, I haven't heard of Mexico being hit by US terrorists. Unfortunately, the borders are one of the paths used to enter the US. It has thus led to paranoia.
I think however, you'll find that most American's do NOT understand why there are so many illegal crossings. With a process like that, it's understandable, but it's NEVER explained.
I'd love to see that link. Why is it offensive? For the same reason that you are implying everyone is a racist. I'm not, yet you'd paint me the same as someone who kills by skin color? I find that very offensive. As for Mexico being free of race-related killings? Sounds like you're as out of touch as you accuse me of being. The reason so many killings in the US are known as being race related is because it's publicized.
One white person shoots another, race is not mentioned. A black person shoots a white person, it's self defense. The other way around? It's automatically assumed to be a hate crime.
My apologies, I forgot that Mexico was a dictatorship, and not a democracy. Sounds like what's really needed is a revolution. To be honest, I have enough trouble keeping up with the stupidities and atrocities of my own government without having to keep track of anyone else's.
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God bless every honorable warrior that fought and died for justice and freedom.
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I\'m not American myself but even I can respect the great sacrifice that not only American but my own fellow Englishmen are going through for us, this pic describes perfectly how we should ALL remember that sacrifice, this pic is AMAZING, I salute you sir
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I thank you sir, and salute the troops from England that have stood beside ours.
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RIGHT ON, Cap... A BOOYA!!! As I really LOVE much of your \"work\", I really REALLY LLLOOOVVVE THIS one (& esp. the \"Sentiments\"... may we NEVER forget ANY of them who \"paid the price\" for ALL OF US)!!!
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