Put this up on the Facebook, but I'm not very original, so I'm putting it here, too...(cuz you guys are my main social media):
Since this day in 1775 when the Continental Congress authorized the organization of a rag-tag group of citizen soldiers to defend Boston, the U.S. Army has answered the call and served our democracy. From Bunker Hill to Gettysburg, from the Marne, to Normandy to Okinawa, from Pusan, to, yes, Saigon, Falluja, and Kandahar, as well as Little Rock, Arkansas, our citizen soldiers have supported and defended the United States, serving at the People's will.
"You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud." (That's from T.R. Fehrenbach's This Kind of War.)
This We'll Defend.
Happy 244th Birthday, United States Army.
