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Memorial Day: Virginia Third-Graders Sing ‘Thank You, Soldiers’

Posted on | May 31, 2010 | 14 Comments

Thank you, oh, thank you,
Men and women, brave and strong!
To those who served so gallantly,
We sing this grateful song!

Thanks to Dave at Point of a Gun for finding this video featuring third-graders at Tussing Elementary School in Colonial Heights, Va.

Category: Military

Comments

14 Responses to “Memorial Day: Virginia Third-Graders Sing ‘Thank You, Soldiers’”

  1. Joe
    May 31st, 2010 @ 2:58 pm

    This should be thank you to those who served and especially those who gave all.

  2. Joe
    May 31st, 2010 @ 9:58 am

    This should be thank you to those who served and especially those who gave all.

  3. House of Eratosthenes
    May 31st, 2010 @ 10:11 am

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  4. Morgan K Freeberg
    May 31st, 2010 @ 3:16 pm

    This is awesome, although there’s no need to point it out.

    I see there are 19 thumbs-down. File that under “Takes All Kinds to Make a World.”

  5. Morgan K Freeberg
    May 31st, 2010 @ 10:16 am

    This is awesome, although there’s no need to point it out.

    I see there are 19 thumbs-down. File that under “Takes All Kinds to Make a World.”

  6. Joe
    May 31st, 2010 @ 4:18 pm

    Darleen has a great commencement speech by Heinlien on service.

  7. Joe
    May 31st, 2010 @ 11:18 am

    Darleen has a great commencement speech by Heinlien on service.

  8. Joe
    May 31st, 2010 @ 5:08 pm

    This speech still works too:

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  9. Joe
    May 31st, 2010 @ 12:08 pm

    This speech still works too:

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  10. Dave C
    May 31st, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

    Thanks for the link..

  11. Dave C
    May 31st, 2010 @ 12:32 pm

    Thanks for the link..

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  13. RES
    June 1st, 2010 @ 6:14 am

    Thanks for this anodyne to those nauseating videos of kids singing praises of Dear Lead … Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm.

  14. RES
    June 1st, 2010 @ 1:14 am

    Thanks for this anodyne to those nauseating videos of kids singing praises of Dear Lead … Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm.