Veteran’s Day Post - Semper Fidelis

A pony salute to the veterans of the armed forces, in whatever country they may be.

(Equestrian Marine Corps from AK71 [Adam Knight] on DeviantArt)

May your steel never rust nor your skills ever dull as you stand watch over those of us who live in the freedom you protect.

Dawnscroll once left this quote on my Veteran’s Day story, To The Bugle’s Last Call, and I think it appropriate to repeat it now:

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
— Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

Comments

[MoonlitCresent]

This is really sweet and cool.

[Dusty_Detonator]

Thank you for the support

[Eruantalon]

Shouldn't the Equestrian Marine Corps be made up of seaponies?

But yes, to any veterans reading this - of whatever kind - thank you for your service.

[Stormy Skies]

Thank you. The Binyon poem is one of my favorites.

I'll leave you another favorite quote of mine.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few

-Winston Churchill, 21 August, 1940

[Wacky]

Many thanks to all of those who gave ever so much. Thank you.

[Nyerguds]

May we forever be reminded of the horrors of war, and resolve to do better.

I live in Flanders. Farmers here are still digging up the bombs of World War 1 by ploughing their fields, every day. And those include chemical ammunition. It's all a pretty close affair to me.

[Nyerguds]

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