Stirring Words From Our 16th President

 

Below is one of the most profound addresses every given by a President of the United States "The Gettysburg Address". President Lincoln's words still apply to this day:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

World War II Memorial Plaque

 

 

Plaque dedicated to all the members of the First Hungarian Reformed Church of Homestead who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II.

My dad, William F. Horosz Sr, was Chief Elder of the church at that time and he and other dedicated church members were instrumental in getting this plaque placed at the entrance to the cemetery.

My dad was great friends with all of them. He would shed a tear every time he heard their names. My mother knew them as well.

They are:

William Chontos

Joseph Galyas

Ernest Katona

Daniel Kontra

John Matta, Jr.

Joseph Trenka, Jr.

None of them returned.

We owe them a debt we can never repay.

So this Memorial Day please think of these six young men and the incredible price they paid.

#MemorialDay #memorialdayweekend #freedomisntfree #GodBlessAmerica

 

Eternal Father

"Eternal Father Strong To Save" is also known as "The Navy Hymn". Posting this to all United States Sailors who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. 

"Fair winds and following seas"

"We have the watch" 

Eternal Father, strong to save,

Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walked'st on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Trinity of love and power!
Our brethren shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea."

#memorialday #memorialdayweekend #eternalfatherstrongtosave #eternalfather #usnavy

Memorial Day Tribute To My Father

In honor of my late father William F. Horosz Sr. AOMC 1 who proudly served his country on the USS Lexington CV16 (nicknamed "The Blue Ghost") from 1943-1945. Dad thank you for your service to your country and for being part of "The Greatest Generation". Know you are loved and greatly missed by us all.