Lab Rat 1997

Widower, father, retired, disabled, God loving fallen Catholic trying to be a light shining in the darkness, prayerful patriot 🇺🇲, friendly to most. NO DM's

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@AntiLeftMemes Kick rocks for 40 percent

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@UTChargerTom @KevO4188 I'll take the word of an honorable Marine

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@itsrosesm Murder charges should be applied

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@Arkypatriot 💯🇺🇲💯🇺🇲💯

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Many of you may not know that I served for 8 years on the DOD honor Detail in Fort Smith, Arkansas as the electronic bugler.

Every time I stood on the Honor Detail and raised that bugle this was my view.

Not a crowd.
Not a parade.
Just row after row of white headstones stretching across the green hills of the Fort Smith National Cemetery.

From where I stood, I could see the stones of men and women who had worn the uniform long before I did. Some had fought in wars history remembers. Others served quietly and came home to ordinary lives before making one final journey to that sacred ground.

People hear the bugle and think it’s just a song. It isn’t.

When those first notes of Taps leave that bugle, time seems to stop. Families cling to one another. Veterans stand a little straighter. Even the wind seems to soften.

And as I looked through the curve of that brass instrument, all I could see were those headstones.

I often wondered about the lives behind them. The young Marine who never got to grow old. The Army medic who came home carrying invisible scars. The sailor whose grandchildren only know him from faded photographs.

For those few moments, it felt like it wasn’t just playing for the family gathered around the casket. It was playing for every single one of them.

As a Marine, I was taught that we never leave our own behind. Standing there, bugle in hand, looking across that sea of white marble, I realized that promise doesn’t end when the battle is over.

Your watch is over. Rest easy. We will remember.

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@grey4626 🫂❤️💋🙏 to both of you

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@AlixG_2 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 cheers Alix

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@NoDMsPerfavore 🔥

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@PATRIOT2117 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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@UTChargerTom @KevO4188 He was released by the VC as part of the return of POWs and other men were never freed.
He was known throughout the prisoners as giving info about his fellow prisoners to his captors to get better treatment for himself

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@RobertaFresque2 I was forced into a buyout due to downsizing and a few days into my retirement I had emergency surgery on my neck. I'm retired on disability due to my physical limitations

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@AntiLeftMemes And you have never been anything but a failed support actor who has limited options to make anything of yourself

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@southgrace427 Thanks for being you Grace 🫂❤️💋🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😻😻😻😻😻😘😘😘😘😘

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@Notwokenow 🙏

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@PATRIOT2117 I'm speechless 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😻😻😻😻😻😘😘😘😘😘

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@AlixG_2 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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@TiffMoodNukes 🫂❤️💋🙏

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@Monica55dzrh Yes I do

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@EricLDaugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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