{"id":1866,"date":"2008-06-13T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2008-11-25T17:18:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T22:18:28","slug":"happy-birthday-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tomorrow is more popularly Flag Day, but it’s also the Army’s Birthday. Both COB6 and I spent a large portion of our adult lives in the Army, so sometimes it’s easier to remember than our kid’s birthdays (I kid). Celebrations have already begun.<\/p>\n

From the Army’s website;<\/p>\n

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Photo by J.D. Leipold<\/a>
\nJune 11, 2008 <\/span><\/p>\n

Army and congressional leaders celebrated the Army’s 233rd birthday and the Army’s partnership with Congress yesterday at a cake-cutting ceremony on Capitol Hill. Secretary of the Army Pete Geren told the audience it was a great occasion to celebrate an institution, a partnership that is older than the nation: “It was really an adoption more than a birth because Soldiers were in the field laying siege to the British in Boston when the Continental Congress decided to create an Army on June 14, 1775 — they said, ‘those guys in the field; they are our Army.'” From left to right: Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas, Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., Secretary Geren, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston and Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Terry Goodman<\/a>
\nJune 13, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston reads the Army Birthday Children’s Storybook Thursday to about 20 children at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Child Development Center at Forest Glenn, located in Silver Spring, Md. After the reading, Preston and two of the children blew out candles on the official “Army birthday” cake followed by the singing of the Army Song. The Army Birthday Children’s Storybook was written for children by Army Family Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command to help Army children understand the importance, history, contributions and sacrifices their parents make.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

SMA Preston’s Army Birthday message;<\/p>\n

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The President’s message on the occasion;<\/p>\n

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The Soldiers Creed;<\/p>\n

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Everyone who has ever served in the Army and earned an Honorable Discharge is my brother. These folks who<\/a> have given their lives for our country while wearing Army boots are never far from my thoughts, neither are those who are trying their boots on for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow I’ll be with my blog buddies Skye<\/a> and Thus Spake Ortner <\/a>celebrating Flag Day in West Chester, PA on the outside, but the Army’s 233 years will be in my heart.<\/p>\n

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Last year’s post is here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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