Happy Veterans Day!

For those of you who have followed my blog for a while now you will recognize this post from last year, but hey recycling is cool right? I have been having problems with my computer for a while now and it won't allow me to add pictures to my blog, but I did this post last year and honestly this years posting would have been so similar I might as well just use the one from last year. In my family we have many veterans in all different branches, So in honor of Veterans Day I decided to recognize the Veterans in our Family. I wasn't able to get pictures of them all, but I am going to recognize the ones that I know.

Tom Clements II was in the Merchant marines during WWII.

He is my Grandpa.

John Clements was in the Army.

He is my Uncle.
Jim Clements was in the Army and served in the white house for President Nixon.

He is my Uncle.

Cleo Teeter, Eric's Grandpa, served in the Army during WWII.

(not pictured)

Reggie Teeter, Eric's dad, served in the Army from 1966-1968.

He fought in Vietnam and was a Radio Repairman.

Farold Naef, my Grandpa, served in the Army.

(not pictured)

Kevin Naef, served in the Air Force.

He was a Senior Master Sargent and served from 1978-2001.

(not pictured)

Dennis Erickson served in the Army,

and fought in Vietnam.

(not Pictured)

Scott Beck has served in the Navy from 1996-current. He is an Engine man Senior Chief Surface Warfare Specialist. He has been deployed many times in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He is my brother.

I think it is important to recognize our soldiers and their families. I am taking this time to thank all the ones that I know and I hope that you will do the same. Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service!

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: 'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation; Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!