To our GWOT Veterans—for those who really feel at the moment prefer it was all for nothing, know this:
Due to you, we now have all the pieces. Each alternative, each likelihood to compete, and the identical alternative to reach on the reducing fringe of battle.
The phrase “service” has been so overused that the thought of our Rangers as servants to our Nation is difficult to know; it comes out and in of focus. It feels summary within the second, but on reflection, it’s crystal clear.
It’s unlikely that those that got here earlier than us understood the influence they might have on the Ranger Regiment, the Army, and the Nation. There are not any phrases that may repay or totally acknowledge their dedication to the Ranger creed, their fellow Rangers, and our Nation. They continue to be immortalized as our heroes, their service to us continues lengthy after their tour of responsibility has ended.
As we speak, there is just one phrase to explain how we present Rangers really feel on Veterans Day. Gratitude. We’re grateful for many who selected this path, and thru their service, not solely fought for his or her Nation but in addition offered these in our ranks with one thing extra.
It’s via their service, these Veterans, that we now have been supplied essentially the most distinctive alternatives to enter right into a brotherhood the place individuals count on us to be our greatest. We’re grateful for these Veterans who challenged what was attainable and in doing so created excessive requirements. Requirements that created a venue to wrestle and obtain what could seem inconceivable. We owe because of these Ranger Veterans for leaving the Ranger Regiment in a greater place, and paving the way in which for our subsequent generations to stay and work in a spot that enables an analogous expertise—an expertise that makes us higher individuals, higher spouses, higher mates, higher dad and mom, higher members of our neighborhood, and in the end, higher Rangers.
That is your day. We honor you each day on Cardiac and Noble Hill, on the again lonely stretches of Perimeter Street, on the vary, within the health club, and in battle. It’s you who nonetheless holds the torch that lights the trail we observe. There are not any phrases, so we provide as an alternative our dedication of motion to go additional, sooner, and combat more durable than every other Soldier… identical to you.
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