"First Brigade- Press on"

1stBCT 10th Mountain Division

- Thank you so much for serving our Nation on this day that we recall our blessing and freedom. Thank you for "standing firm" against all that threaten our freedom and the freedom of the Iraqi people and families. Thank you for being examples in humilty and serving and placing other's interests before your own.



Philippians 2:3-5
3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=57&chapter=2&verse=3&end_verse=5&version=31&context=context


Stonewall Jackson expressed this affection well for his troops of the 1Bct.

“In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell!” (Thomas Stonewall Jackson)


Jackson was truly a modest man. He would blush like a school-girl at a compliment. He was easily confused in the presence of strangers, especially if they were ladies. It is well known that the noisy demonstrations which the troops always made when they saw him were painfully embarrassing to him. This was usually attributed to his innate modesty; but that was not the sole cause. It had its origin in a higher source. In the last interview I ever had with him, he said: "The manner in which the press, the army, and the people seem to lean upon certain persons is positively frightful. They are forgetting God in the instruments he has chosen. It fills me with alarm." What a lesson is here to flatterers!

"Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, tried to reassure his wife in the same manner, he wrote in 1682, "but all my times are in His hand...& no harm can come to me unless it is wisely & kindly ordered so." (though wounded six times, twice thought fatally, he survived them all and lived out his years to four score and six"

(For Cause and Comrades, page 65)

Gettysburg
Hold at All Costs - Iced Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsW3i9rY58k

We'll know what we're made of.
When up against all odds we hold our line
For the cause that we so love
We must hold at all cost
We'll know what we're made of
When our nation needs us
We'll stay the course, for the union we so love
We must hold at all costs!

Wave after wave, they are coming
Their power must be waning!
We're out of ammo, we can't fall back, no !
A desperate measure, a means to end

On their next wave we charge at them
There is no other option
Disconcert them, force submission, on my command, fix bayonets!

We'll know what we're made of
The burden lies with us
When up against al odds we hold our line
We can't fail
For the cause that we so love
We must hold at all costs
We'll know what we're made of
With courage in our hearts
When our nation needs us, We'll stay the course
We won't fail
For the union we so love
We must hold at all cost!!