Members Sugarskull Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 For all of you who have served, for all who have lost loved ones due to conflict. For all who have fought to make our countries and planet a better place to live, I remember you and I think of you and I am thankful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hearafter Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 Grandfather was a Seabee.... my mom has an awesome frame with all his medals and patches, along with his military I.D. *salutes* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members beedlesw Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 you're welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members perrydabassman Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 We love you too Sugarskull. Desert Shield Desert Storm Somalia Kosovo Retired in 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chris-dax Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 I couldn't have said it better...today more than ever before, I owe you all my deepest gratitude...c-d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thumper Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 [YOUTUBE]cq_TmHt5Ncc[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassman1956 Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 From one, to all of the rest of you, Thanks! (They don't have a salute smilie, this is the best I could do.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thumper Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 Remember November 11th is Veterans Day -- Some Thoughts Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg-or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's alloy forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the tanks didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel. She is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back at all. He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket-palsied now and aggravatingly slow-who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. They are the troops on patrol in some godforsaken, war-torn country whose mere presence is a promise that nothing bad will happen on their watch, and who give the downtrodden a sense of hope for a better future. They are the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Coastguardsmen and Marines who since September 11th have galvanized a nation and given us all a new definition of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeonVomit Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 I've got my poppy on today. They will never be forgotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members s4001 Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 And again. "It is the soldier, not the reporter,Who has given us freedom of the press.It is the soldier, not the poet,Who has given us freedom of speech.It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.It is the soldier,Who salutes the flag,Who serves beneath the flag,And whose coffin is draped by the flag,Who allows the protester to burn the flag." Thanks to the men & women who serve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members W33nie Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 Thanks for the help in South Korea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members willsellout Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 I'll be working tomorrow:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 She is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back at all. He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket-palsied now and aggravatingly slow-who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. You bastage, all of these got me. I directly know people who represent the first two, remember being heavily affected by Punchbowl Cemetary when I was in the boy scouts and we put flags on every unidentified grave, and have a deep and sincere reverence and shame (in myself) anytime I see interviews with WWII vets. They all deserve more appreciation than the most eloquent thanks I could possibly come up with on a forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 Thank you... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jugghaid Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 Thank you to all who have served. And to my fellow vets....happy veterans day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georgestrings Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 Thank you to all who have served. And to my fellow vets....happy veterans day! Well said... - georgestrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NineMinuteNap Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 No thanks are necessary*. We were just doing our jobs. *but they are appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members bassesofalessergod Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 is a sticky really necessary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cpt. Spliff Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 is a sticky really necessary? Don't be a sourpuss.In Northern Europe we have thankfully been spared since WWII.We still owe a lot to the american soldier. And the british and the... Lest we should forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sonic1 Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 We went to a Veterans Day assembly at my kids' school today. My daughter's 3rd grade class sang a bunch of songs. At one point, vets were asked to stand when their respective service flags were presented. It made me smile when I stood for Air Force and my daughter's eyes lit up. A lot of kids had parents and uncles and grandparents there who had, or were, serving. Pretty cool. Hats off to all the vets, especially the brave men and women of the 2nd world war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drunkinminer Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 Great song by a great artist. This is my favorite line from a poem/song titled "THE FINAL INSPECTION"Step forward now, you soldier, You've borne your burdens well, Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets, You've done your time in Hell." Full text here.http://ed-thelen.org/FinalInspection.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members perrydabassman Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 No thanks are necessary*. We were just doing our jobs.*but they are appreciated ^^^^^ this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toolbar Posted November 11, 2009 Members Share Posted November 11, 2009 My oldest brother was in Qui Nh?n, Vietnam 1969-1970. Was killed in Oct. 1970. Was going to be home for Thanksgiving. We waited 'til almost Thanksgiving for his body to arrive. I served USAF 1974-1978. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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