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Thank you veterans - left and right

RickWA

Snagglesooth
No politics in this message. I know we have many veterans among our posting group. I never served.

Thank YOU for all that you did. Thanks for laboring in obscurity. Thanks for all the sacrifice. Thank you for departing from those you love. Thanks for the tradition of honor that most of us will never fully understand. There are a thousand reasons to thank you. None will suffice.

Thank you.

:)
 

gigi

Mayor
And thank you to the people who raised the kind of men and women who choose to serve our Country this way. That's no accident. That's learned.
 

fairsheet

Senator
No politics in this message. I know we have many veterans among our posting group. I never served.

Thank YOU for all that you did. Thanks for laboring in obscurity. Thanks for all the sacrifice. Thank you for departing from those you love. Thanks for the tradition of honor that most of us will never fully understand. There are a thousand reasons to thank you. None will suffice.

Thank you.

:)

Right on, Rick. I didn't serve either. Sometimes I regret that and it's too late now. My "window" as it were, was 1974 thru 1982. As history suggests, that wasn't an especially war-like period. I assuage myself in the knowing that had I joined up, it would've been more about my country serving me, than me serving my country.
 

Dawg

President
Supporting Member
Right on, Rick. I didn't serve either. Sometimes I regret that and it's too late now. My "window" as it were, was 1974 thru 1982. As history suggests, that wasn't an especially war-like period. I assuage myself in the knowing that had I joined up, it would've been more about my country serving me, than me serving my country.
74 Nam was still on the burner..........IMO.......even when not war-like period.......Vets still signed a contract to give their lives for Freedom......WAR doesn't mean they are 1000's of miles from family/home..............wish those that think entitlements felt the same as you Fair.................

 
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Dawg

President
Supporting Member
No politics in this message. I know we have many veterans among our posting group. I never served.

Thank YOU for all that you did. Thanks for laboring in obscurity. Thanks for all the sacrifice. Thank you for departing from those you love. Thanks for the tradition of honor that most of us will never fully understand. There are a thousand reasons to thank you. None will suffice.

Thank you.

:)
Thx Rick...............you're a good man.
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
No politics in this message. I know we have many veterans among our posting group. I never served.

Thank YOU for all that you did. Thanks for laboring in obscurity. Thanks for all the sacrifice. Thank you for departing from those you love. Thanks for the tradition of honor that most of us will never fully understand. There are a thousand reasons to thank you. None will suffice.

Thank you.

:)
Yeah. Although it's an American holiday,I can't help but think of the veterans in other countries too. I watched the 5 part Apocalypse World War I series on the American Heroes Channel recently. I DVRed them and watched them again too. The soldiers lived and fought in appalling conditions.

One of my high school classmates recently posted some pictures of his great,great grandfather. He lost an arm serving as a Confederate soldier at Vicksburg. He posted pics of his parole documents when he was released from a Union POW camp and when he was discharged from the army of the CSA I did some research on my own of the company and regiment he served in.

My father was a crew chief in the USAF between Korea and Vietnam and his younger brother was a sonarman in the USN in the latter part of the same period. His youngest brother served 3 tours in Vietnam as a Navy Corpsman. He's one of the bravest men I've ever known.
 

Wahbooz

Governor
My baby gave me a hug the other day and said "Thank you". At first I thought 'for what?', and then it hit me.

In remembrance of Lynnie Newman and Gary Meiler, Mobile Riverine Forces Vietnam.

Lt. Dale Jones, Marines.

Pfc. Gary Ryden Army

And many more.
 
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JackDallas

Senator
Supporting Member
No politics in this message. I know we have many veterans among our posting group. I never served.

Thank YOU for all that you did. Thanks for laboring in obscurity. Thanks for all the sacrifice. Thank you for departing from those you love. Thanks for the tradition of honor that most of us will never fully understand. There are a thousand reasons to thank you. None will suffice.

Thank you.

:)
I'm late to the party but I just noticed this thread, and I appreciate it. I'd like to remember crewmates Bill Ahlberg (Massachusetts); Mel Wilt (Ohio); John Cote (Maine) and Eddie Nettles (Louisiana) who served with me in Navy Patrol Squadron VP-21. They are all gone now and I am still here. There is injustice in that I do not understand but accept it and keep on going.
 
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