Those are wonderful pictures! The wagon wheel memorial, the skulls. Did you find the skulls around your property? And such pretty daffodils. Thanks!

8th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, March 19, 2003...

4486 US soldies lost their lives in the Sandbox, for nothing. And meanwhile in Afghanistan...

"Troops wounded in Afghanistan also have suffered the loss of multiple limbs — of the 187 service members with major limb loss in 2010, 72 of them lost more than one limb, according to the report from the Army’s Dismounted Complex Blast Injury Task Force."

"That’s an increase from 2009, when of the 86 troops with major limb loss, 23 had multiple amputations, according to the task force’s report."

"The “most dramatic changes” in the wounds coming out of Afghanistan were the increased number of troops with above-the-knee amputation of both legs, triple and quadruple amputations, and the associated genital injuries, the task force reported."

Very lovely photos
the story is in the tags
rated with love

Frank Buckles…the last warrior from WWI. Wikipedia says,
“A widower at age 98, he worked on his farm until the age of 105.”

Also in ww2. Suffered japanese imprisonment. Led fellow prisoners in calesthenics.
(he saw Hitler once, in a hotel)
How’d he live so long? To 110?
“being hopeful and not hurrying were key traits, adding: "When you start to die ... don't".
……………………………………………………………..
There should be a movie about this farmer/world traveler.
There really ought to be a movie about YOU, too.
Same actor plays both rolls?
I suspect you got maybe many many yrs left.
Book ‘art of war’ , ha, good pun.
Book always quoted by damn fool idiots in the movies.
Viet Cong knew it. So did mac Arthur..
There's much better 'ancient chinese wizdum' out there.
Oh how should i know/
? i never read 'art of war'....


painting war out of the picture sounds like a good project.
i met a Vietnam vet tonight. my sister's guy friend.
also corrections officer.
one of the gentlest most caring souls yet
whom i have met.

his eyes...so humble.......
my sis's eyes? like a blushing 16 yr old's.......

The stones mean the most to me. The flowers can come and go but the stones remain forever. The beer as a vase was a nice touch Art!

Erin go Braugh!

HUGGGGGGGG

The stones mean the most to me. The flowers can come and go but the stones remain forever. The beer as a vase was a nice touch Art!

Erin go Braugh!

HUGGGGGGGG

Lovely photos. It's good of you to remember and remind us too. The cost of war is too high, I still pray for peace on earth. Still dream it will come.

Thank you.

Well said. And shown. Kudos to you!

very nicely done.

Thanks for insight feedback.
I had help 'cutting & pasting'
&
I had intended to write more.
My tongue got tied? Caution.
After '1' beer I am? Tolerable.
If I sip `2' I giggle? Wondrous.
`
I have a quote for Front & Back
of . . .
a etched in grave stone War Eulogy.
`
After the 'cut & paste' I went Fugue.
Maybe tomorrow I'll be too Morose.
If I am too Fugue - I call it` Pooped.
`
My Father called - Weary . . . Pooped.
Ay Poop's natural - Eulogy . . . Weary.
Oh we do get beer - Wacky . . . Whip.
Whip is to feel whipped and Wasted.
`
P.S.
I was away all day.
My son and grand-
Son
Pooped (no) pants.
tease
I just postpone idea-stuff.
I'll etch stone tomorrow.
Folk get 'pooped' duh.
That's just so weary.
If I sip '3' brews, duh.
I duh a '2' and be duh.
I 'duh' a checking duh.
I duh a smile a big duh.
`
duh
duh
good
night
`
goofy

WOW!! Gorgeous!

Thanks for the memories for those who have slipped by and bye!
.........(¯`v´¯) (¯`v´¯)
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............... *•.¸.•* ♥⋆★•❥ Thanx (ツ) & ♥ L☼√Ξ ☼ ♥
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Frank Buckles was remembered.
He lived to be 110 years young.
I heard his name mentioned.
West Virginia is honoring.
I use to speak with Vets.
He's One I Remember.
`
The anti-war artist Geoff Butler has a 179 X 97.5 X 8.6 cm. acrylic and sand on panel and wood Front & Back. Visualize a Tombstone. Etched On the Front Stone is:
`
War is Dead
Here lies WAR
in sweet repose
It had heretofore
reeked of BO
Do nor mourn
it's dying out ;
it offended more
than just the snout
The Soul , e.g.,
was won't to puke
at force of arms
from club to nuke
Wars to end wars ,
while legit ,
never quite seemed
to succeed in it .
The greatest siege
that e're was made
put ALL of war
into this grave .
WAR tried so hard
to not go under
but, dragged & pushed ,
It's now in slumber ,
resting in eternal peace -
that's more than
it ever did for we's .
*
That is etched on the Front.
Later I write what's on Back.
The Back is all hand written.
The writing is from children.
You see various hand styles.
I need reading glasses too.

Later (soon) I'll do the Back.
Reading Back - Sad Impact`
`
I could not find it on his web.
Geoff's piece - WAR DEAD -

Thanks for the comments.
And reading a Tombstone.
The gravestone is our own.

This is etched on the back Tombstone Panel.
This Back Panel had a Potent Impact on me.
It'd hand written in various colors and style.

The Back of the stone grave marker reads this:
`
Your OBIT WAS A BIG HIT
OUT OF SITE !
GOOD RIDDANCE (it's written in red script)
& don't come back
Be it ever so humble ,
there's no better home for you
than this place
IT'S ABOUT TIME PERVERT
a part of us went with you don't
lose no sleep over it
you're now in peace
because we had war beat us
you big pus
(in bold red) YOU'RE REALLY SICK AFTER ALL
the autopsy revealed you were full of it
I know we should speak well of the dead but you
used up all of the biggest lies when you were alive
Ha! Dead As A Doornail
You did not go "GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT"
AND YOU DID "RAGE , RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT"
SO , You CREEP ,
YOU WERE PUT TO SLEEP
*
P.S.
There's a few more. Later.
I gotta go pee pee off porch.
That P.S. is not etched here.
I'll be Back to finish The Back.

O , Glory Be !
You ceased to be
Your dead shithead
Now your out of misery
GO TO HELL
Hooray, hooray
you've passed away
*
P.S.
If 'it' is on the web I no do find it.
The end of the Back Grave Panel.

WAR DEAD - Geoff Butler -

The Idea by the artist is simple.
This P.S. is not etched in stone.
Let's have a glad wonderful day.
Visualize Front & Back in Stone.
`
This is in the book: ART OF WAR:
PAINTING IT OUT OF PICTURE
`
It is a collection of 133 paintings,
drawing - of which 75 are in bright
full color.
It is published in Canada by artist:

Geoff Butler
P.O. Box 29
Gransville Ferry, Nova Scotia BOS
1 KO
`
The book always knocks me out good.
It celebrates the end of war. Participate.
The artist invite YOU/Me to Participate
in a vision further than the eye can see.
It's satirical and irreverent. Participate.
`
You are Welcome to write a comment.
I see that Geoff Butler read your writ.
Question? What would you inscribe?

P.S.
Last evening I was pooped tuckered.
My Father would say goofy true stuff.
P.S.
Please feel free to cuss in a sacred way.
Etch . . .
Whatever.
Canadians
say with
both hands
skyward
Whatever!
I may go . . .
Lupines
Bloom
Loons
honk
loud
erie
sound

@ 8:00AM . . .
I was supposed to be at a free doughnut feed
@ a Amish Hardware Store Open House event
`
`
denied a doughnut,
their six year-old proclaiming
his life is hell
`
`
leaving Las Vegas
claiming he's overdosed
'on feathers and boobs
`
`
a Turk bewildered
why we 'park' on a 'driveway'
drive n a 'parkway'
`
`
the young professor
telling students not to cheat
because it's a sin
`
`
the drill sergeant
holding his baby grandson,
saying 'Cootchie-coo
`
`
a billionaire
sporting polka dot boots
to the opera
`
`
after a trip to buy ten-penny nails
`
his son leaving 'Lowe's'
with a purchased tool box
filled with stolen goods
`
`

again. I thanks Ya a`gin for male and female PMs 'private' male.

typo
mail
oho
`
I googled Frank Buckles.
Biden and Barack visited.
WW- 1 Doughboy conked.
His aged body got buried.
Yesterday he was buried.
He rest @ Arlington site.
`
http://www.palacebarracksmemorialgarden.org/Para.mp3 /

I listened to Geoff Butler from Nova Scotia sing anti-lie-hate\
I feel like some free Amish Shoo-Fly Pie with Vanilla Bean nice\

Free Ice Cream. You can skip this-male-comment. I feel female/

?

tease . . .
First . . .
I a male.
`
I need to lose my chub tummy.
I need to develop washboards.
Men need belly abs to get EP.
?
Oh, deer lard who rules cosmos.
Help we men have nice obituary.
Females make hicks into comets.

I got that Fairy book you were talking about on another thread. It's wonderful!!

hyblaean_Julie. Isn't that book great!
Sketches remind me of Nancy Drew.
My granddaughter reads Nancy Drew.

Peter B Beagle, 'San Francisco Chronicle'
`
. . . He wrote it's the best GNOME book . . .

- It's a wit and love compilation - Faeries -
- David Larkin, Brian Froud, and Alan Lee -
- My granddaughter Loves the Illustrations -

Etc.
Thanks to everybody who commented here.
I thought the book I mentioned is sad/great.
I mean 'The Art of War' ~ Geoff Butler's gifts.
Sigh/sad
Joy/smile
Be cheer
Cheers
`

I was gonna `Cut & Paste . . .

I decided mu brain is half-asleep.

I Googled` Geoff Butler . . . .
`
I'm amazed by birds in Canada.
Migratory Birds stop off for rest.
There's these Odd`Snipe Sounds.
It's perpetual fortissimo orchestra.
Newness . .
I saw this old post ref Memorial Day.

Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier.-Marla Ahlgrimm