God Bless America's Warriors

My father, RICHARD LEE ALLEY, WWII USAAC, USAF pilot veteran and BZ, ca 2007.

"To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one.  It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives.  Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man.  We make ourselves into one or the other."

- Carlos Castenada

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory.  I love only that which they defend."

- JRR Tolkien

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

- Gen. G.S. Patton

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.  Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

- Gen. G.S. Patton

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

-Winston Churchill

"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."

-Lise Hand

"Ώ παίδες Ελλήνων, ίτε ελευθερούτε πατρίδ' ελευθερούτε δε παίδας, γυναίκας, θεών τε πατρώων έδη,θήκας τε προγόνων νυν υπέρ πάντων αγών." ("Forward, sons of the Greeks, liberate the fatherland, liberate your children, your women, the temples of your ancestral gods, the graves of your forebears: this is the battle for everything.")

-Aeschylus

God bless our warriors, God bless this nation, God bless America, the best and last hope for this entire planet.

BZ