VVA CHAPTER 421  
Poems & Quotes

Quotable Quotes

Poems / Writings

 

 

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt TWAS THE NIGHT  BEFORE CHRISTMAS by author unknown Marine
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Sir Winston Churchill TAKE A KNEE by author unknown
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” - Thomas Paine A SOLDIER'S CHRISTMAS by Michael Marks - Youtube video
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”---
Benjamin Franklin
A TOAST TO EACH OTHER ON OUR ANNIVERSARY by Mary Lou Magliocca
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”---
Albert Einstein
BURY ME WITH SOLDIERS by Msgr. Charles R. Fink

“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

IT IS THE VETERAN by author unknown

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

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

 “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

HAPPY BAND OF BROTHERS' DAY by author unknown
“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.” -- Ronald Reagan IN FLANDERS FIELDS by John McCrae
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty
-- Benjamin Franklin
IT IS THE VETERAN by author unknown
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it, we go nowhere.”  
---Carl Sagan, Cosmos
I WALK IN THE SHADOW by Frank Russo VVA Chapter 421 member
""A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.".”         Adlai Stevenson NOBLE AND THE BRAVE by Joanna Fuchs
“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 VVA VETERAN by Rick Rogers VVA Chapter 421 member
  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)