VVA CHAPTER 421  
Poems & Quotes

 

Quotable Quotes

Poems / Writings

     
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -

Theodore Roosevelt

TAKE A KNEE by author unknown
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

Sir Winston Churchill

A SOLDIER'S CHRISTMAS by Michael Marks - Youtube video
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” -

Thomas Paine

A TOAST TO EACH OTHER ON OUR ANNIVERSARY by Mary Lou Magliocca
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”---

Benjamin Franklin

BURY ME WITH SOLDIERS by Msgr. Charles R. Fink
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”---

Albert Einstein

IT IS THE VETERAN by author unknown

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”   --

Robert Frost

GROUND ZERO by P.O. Thomas H. Brennan (chapter 421 member)

“I must study politics and war so that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy”---

 John Adams

HAPPY BAND OF BROTHERS' DAY by author unknown

 “Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.” ---

Winston Churchill

IN FLANDERS FIELDS by John McCrae
“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”                                  --

Ronald Reagan

IT IS THE VETERAN by author unknown
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”                                                                           --

Benjamin Franklin

I WALK IN THE SHADOW by Frank Russo VVA Chapter 421 member
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it, we go nowhere.”                                                                                           

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

NOBLE AND THE BRAVE by Joanna Fuchs
""A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.".”        

Adlai Stevenson

THE VVA VETERAN by Rick Rogers VVA Chapter 421 member
“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”                                                                    

 George Burns

THE BATTLEFIELD by Amanda Milo 2017 Tottenville H.S. Student
    THE HILL OF ANGELS by Rich 'Boon' Preston
    TOGETHER ALONE by Rich 'Boon' Preston
    (untitled) by Mary Lou Magliocca
    VETERANS DAY by Thomas H. Brennan (chapter 421 member)