A little known fact about me, Ed Wise CEO of IrSabio Travel Consultants, is that before I became a travel agent, I served with the United States Navy. What a proud time in my life that was. I worked with F-14 Tomcat Fighters, served on the historic USS Ranger CV 61, protected oil tankers during the all but forgotten Operation Earnest Will, heck, I even worked as a Navy Recruiter introducing others to the joy of serving our country. Many things can be said about my service to our great nation, but one thing that can not be said is there was regret, because there simply was not any.Our brave service persons, be they Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, National Guard or Coast Guard, our brave men and women who wear the uniform of America's Armed Forces do so with zeal, with spirit, and with love, and like me, without regret.
Our nation asks a lot of our service men and women. We ask them to form a shield against nuclear attack, we ask them to keep pirates from boarding our cruise ships (believe me, we at IrSabio Travel Consultants really appreciate that), we ask them to keep drugs from flowing into our nation's borders. It is no sacrifice for our service members to be like blood hounds on the scent of a vile criminal, never relenting until that criminal has been bought to justice. These are the men and women who are the first to charge in after our nation is attacked unjustly, and they are at many times the last to come out when the other partners of our coalitions tuck tail and run.
When they cry, the tears of our service people are not for themselves, but for the love of our country. For our brave men and women in uniform, the only colors that matter are the Red, The White and The Blue. For our men and women in uniform, it is hard to be a bridge over troubled waters because they are too busy being the dam that slows or holds the waters.
Our men and women in uniform are not Superman, Wonder Woman, The Avengers or any other Stan Lee creation, but they are heroes, they are our heroes. They are unselfish, they are not self absorbed, they are loyal, they are dedicated, they are our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers, our sons, our daughters. They are the United States Armed Forces, and they deserve nothing but our best, because that is all that they give for us.
Join me, and the family of IrSabio Travel Consultants, as we take time on the Memorial Day 2012 and thank all of our brave men and women who wear the uniforms of our grateful nation. Tell them "Thank You" for all that they do, all that they have done, and all that they will do.
Thank you United States Army.
Thank you United States Marine Corps.
Thank you United States Air Force.Thank you United States Navy.
Thank you all Coast Guardsmen, National Guard and Reservist. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
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