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[WreckWench]

The following passage is from a sermon by John Hagee of
Cornerstone Church in San Antonio:

*I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the
soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his
bloody hands. He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from
lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally
scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by
nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands though, with
fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us
now in anger and disgust and tells us this...


*I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution
and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it.

I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to
vote and you stay at home because it rains!

*I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of
speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it
might be bad for business.

I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you
and it has stolen democracy from the people.

It's the soldier, not the reporter who gives you the freedom
of the press.


It's the soldier, not the poet who gives you the freedom of
speech.

It's the soldier, not the campus organizer who allows you to
demonstrate.

It's the soldier, who salutes the flag, serves the flag,
whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the
protester to burn the flag!!!

"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as
they protect us. Bless them and their families for the
selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen."

**Prayer Wheel**: When you receive this, please stop for a
moment and say a prayer for our U.S. forces in Iraq, AND all
around the world. You can however send this to others as well please....*

*Of all the gifts you could give a U.S. Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine,
or Coast Guardsman, Prayer is the very best one...*

[ScubaDude]

Dear WW and all other Patriotic Divers,

Thanks so much for your support, thoughts, prayers and kind words. This article says so much in such a few amount of words that it could be likened to The Lord's Prayer for being perfect.

I'll be leaving in a few short days for a year or more and I'm very proud of the fact that I'll be helping other people from other cultures obtain some of the same freedoms we have in our United States of America.

Please remember me in your prayers, thoughts and emails.

Can't wait to get back and go diving again!!!!!

Kevin Kenworthy, aka ScubaDude

Edited by ScubaDude, 17 December 2004 - 05:56 PM.

[jextract]

A great story of other folks expressing their gratitude:
http://msn.foxsports.com/story/3257052