Handmade items 7/2/12

Each weekday, the members of the Pets Jubilee Team on Etsy choose an item to promote from all of the active members. Here are last week's handcrafted items:

AnnieKDesigns

 DogBarks

 CamargoCreations

 StylinDogsBoutique

 FurriPersonal

Please click on the image to go to the item and click on the name to visit their Etsy shop.

Because of You, Unknown Soldier

By Courtney Tanabe

Because of you, I am here

Because of you, I am able to live freely

Yet I do not know you

And I have not done anything for you

But there you stand, ready to fight

And there you are prepared to die

For me

You've fought before

And you'll fight again

For someone you don't know

So thank you Unknown Soldier

Fighting for me

I'm here because of you

And I owe my future to you

Veteran's Day is Friday, November 11th. It is often overlooked. But what if there were no Veteran's Day? What if no one thought that the freedoms our country was founded on were worth a life?  Is our country worth you giving up your life? Really. Could you? Would you? Maybe for your family. Maybe for your friends. But what about people you don't even know or people you don't like? Thank God that many someones have thought that Freedom was worth it. The greatest way to say thank you to these who have died is to live a life full of  personal sacrifice for the good of others. To get outside of ourselves long enough to make someone else's life better. I wonder what our country would be like if we all did this on a daily basis! Let's live lives of appreciation this Veteran's Day, this month, this year... by doing something sacrificial. It will make us great. And if enough of us do so, it will make our nation great, too. 

by Patty

from Catcalls