Thursday, November 13, 2008

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center

Kessel D. Stelling, Jr. Ballroom

2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway Atlanta, Georgia 30339

3)--Saturday's Event Info:  Rally for Saxby at Falcon Field at the Peachtree City Airport, Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 11 AM.  We will leave Columbus at 9:00 A.M. from the Williams Road Welcome Center for all those interested in attending.

4)--On this Veterans Day, I would like to say a simple thank you to the men and women who have put on the uniform of our armed forces and protected us and preserved our freedom and liberty so that we might debate and discuss issues as a free people, limited only by our own self-governance.  Veterans Day began as a celebration of the armistice that ended World War I, but now is a day for us to remember all of our veterans, from the proud ranks of the Continental Army to the men and women fighting in the War on Terror today to preserve our liberty and way of life.  I would close with these lines from the Hymn, "O Valiant Hearts":

O valiant hearts who to your glory came
Through dust of conflict and through battle flame;
Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved,
Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

Proudly you gathered, rank on rank, to war
As who had heard God's message from afar;
All you had hoped for, all you had, you gave,
To save mankind — yourselves you scorned to save.

Splendid you passed, the great surrender made;
Into the light that nevermore shall fade;
Deep your contentment in that blest abode,
Who wait the last clear trumpet call of God.

Long years ago, as earth lay dark and still,
Rose a loud cry upon a lonely hill,
While in the frailty of our human clay,
Christ, our Redeemer, passed the self same way.

Still stands His Cross from that dread hour to this,
Like some bright star above the dark abyss;
Still, through the veil, the Victor's pitying eyes
Look down to bless our lesser Calvaries.

These were His servants, in His steps they trod,
Following through death the martyred Son of God:
Victor, He rose; victorious too shall rise
They who have drunk His cup of sacrifice.

O risen Lord, O Shepherd of our dead,
Whose cross has bought them and Whose staff has led,
In glorious hope their proud and sorrowing land
Commits her children to Thy gracious hand.