Jim Cole:
CLASS OF 1976
Churchill High SchoolClass of 1976
Eugene, OR
Jim's Story
Jim is from San Antonio, Texas. Jim's schools include Churchill High School. Jim works(ed) at Self-employed.
Music Jim likes includes Last We Fall (OFFICIAL), Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Eagles. Books Jim likes include Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. TV shows Jim likes include InsideSimRacing, The Defenders, NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
One of Jim's favorite quotes is:"WARRIOR ETHOS
I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade
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O! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home, and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto -- "In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key
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A TRIBUTE TO OUR ANCESTORS
THEY did not choose us, nor we them; we never knew them, nor they us; yet we are inextricably bound together for all eternity and there is no law in the universe, no metamorphosis physical or spiritual, that can ever alter this inalienable truth.
OFTEN we may wish for different ones and feel moved to deny the ones we have, but this is as futile as it is foolish to invent spurious ones, for
our deception will surely be unmasked, if not by others, ultimately by our
own conscience.
WE owe everything, our very existence, to our ancestors, and yet we know next to nothing of them because mostly their lives were ...Expand for more
so humbly recorded. It is good that we seek to expand our knowledge of their lives so that we may better understand our own.
THEY made us, body and soul, and we must accept without complaint or rancour what they were and what we are, for nothing and no-one can ever change this fact and it is barren folly to dwell obsessively upon it.
WE recognise that the legacy of genetic inheritance is a double-edged sword. We should be grateful for those gifts of personality and disposition our ancestors bestowed upon us which we find beneficial and not rail against those traits we find less appealing, for it is surely in our own hands to change them.
WE should take pride in our ancestors and their achievements wherever
possible, whether high-born or low, rich or poor, prince or pauper, and not seek arbitrarily to revile or condemn them for acts of which we know nothing of the causes.
WE must learn from them, from their mistakes as well as their successes;
from their tragedies as well as their triumphs; from their sins as well as
their virtues; from their hopes as well as their fears.
POSTERITY and history are irrevocably intertwined in the present. No
coherent vision of the future can exist without an affinity for the past andcognizance of the lives of our forebears.
REMEMBER that we, too, are the ancestors of those yet unborn and we should seek to leave for them a heritage of which they can be as proud as we are ofthat which our forebears bequeathed to us.
WE bless and thank our ancestors for the legacy of the good things they gaveus, forgive them their errors and pray that we will endeavour to use wiselythe knowledge which they handed down to us.
Roy Stockdill".
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