05/07/2013
Remember all our troops year-round...but especially this month!
MAY is MILITARY APPRECIATION MONTH
HONOR & REMEMBER our WARRIORS...PAST and PRESENT
Let us appreciate our brave troops they are only the 1% of the National Population. Its a voluntary military, 62% of majority in the armed forces are white men from the South they have the strongest sense of duty for God, Country and Family...BHO continues cut their pay, benefits and now assault towards their faith. Lets pray for them and support their families....
Remembering a Fallen Warrior, 'Stormin' Norman,' Desert Storm commander, laid to rest at West Point...FEB 28, 2013...
Despite the urgings of some of his supporters, Schwarzkopf never ran for public office. During the service his daughter, Cynthia, mused that her father was "too honest" to be a politician.
She then apologized to Cheney, saying she wrote that before she knew he was attending. The general was buried near his father in the West Point cemetery. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf was a 1917 graduate of the military academy who went on to help found the New Jersey State Police.
“I just would be very happy if the history books said that I was a soldier who served his country with honor and loved his troops and loved his family,” Schwarzkopf once said. “That’s enough for me.”
"When anyone thinks of Desert Storm, they think of Stormin' Norman, The Bear; ... he was a larger than life figure," Powell said.
Schwarzkopf served two tours in Vietnam...Norman Schwarzkopf, the general who commanded the 30-country coalition that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait, was remembered both as a larger than life military figure and trusted adviser during his burial ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Thursday.
A 1956 graduate of the military academy, “Stormin’ Norman” was remembered by family, friends, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Vice President Dick Cheney at a memorial service in the West Point chapel. The Desert Storm commander with a tough-as-tacks reputation died on Dec. 27 in Tampa, Fla., of complications from pneumonia. He was 78....~ckp
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/28/17130970-stormin-norman-desert-storm-commander-laid-to-rest-at-west-point?lite
