Memorial Day May 27, 2002 Houston TX
Issac George Rodriguez III TM2(SEAL) KIA Panama
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place and in the sky
The larks,. still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead , short days ago
We lived, felt dawn saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Selling poppies by the VFW started in 1923
This cemetry was in Belgium
Written by a Canadian Army doctor 1915.as he sat after a brutal day in the field. He gazed out over the cemetery and wrote what he saw.
"In Flanders Field" is still considered one of the most memorable war poems written
submitted by Billy Burbank Class 19 EC
INVOCATION PRAYER SEAL TEAM ONE PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION AWARD CEREMONY
JANUARY 9, 1975
DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, IF I MAY RESPECTFULLY SAY SO, SOMETIMES
YOU ARE A STRANGE GOD. THOUGH YOU LOVE ALL MANKIND, IT SEEMS
YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PREDILECTIONS TOO. YOU SEEM TO LOVE THOSE
MEN THAT CAN STAND ALONE, WHO FACE IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, WHO
CHALLENGE EVERY, EVERY TYRANT - THOSE MEN WHO KNOW THE
HEAT AND LONLINESS OF AS CALVARY. POSSIBLY YOU CHERISH MEN
OF THIS STAMP BECAUSE YOU RECOGNIZE THE MARKS OF YOUR ONLY
SON IN THEM. SINCE THIS UNIQUE GROUP OF MEN KNOWN AS THE
SEAL's KNOW CALVARY AND SUFFERING, TEACH THEM NOW THE
MYSTERY OF THE RESURRECTION - THAT THEY ARE INDESTRUCTIBLE,
THAT THEY WILL LIVE FOREVER BECAUSE THEIR DEEP FAITH IN YOU.
AND WHEN THEY DO COME TO HEAVEN, MAY I RESPECTFULLY WARN
YOU, DEAR FATHER, THEY ALSO KNOW HOW TO CELEBRATE. SO
PLEASE BE READY FOR THEM WHEN THEY INSERT YOUR PEARLY GATES.
BLESS THEM, THEIR DEVOTED FAMILIES AND THEIR COUNTRY ON THIS
GLORIOUS OCCASION. WE ASK THIS THROUGH THE MERITS OF YOUR
SON, JESUS CHRIST THE LORD. AMEN
Reverend E.J. McMahon, S.J. LCDR, CHC, USN
HOO YAH WORLD'S MOST ELITE WARRIORS. GOD RECEIVE THE SOULS
OF ALL THE DEPARTED SEAL's INTO HEAVEN FOR ETERNAL PEACE.
ANTOINETTE "TONI" FLYNN (wife of Frank Flynn)
GOD BLESS AMERICA!