Thanks Veterans! have a GREAT DAY...

[JonB]

HAPPY VETERANS DAY ....... 11/11/2008

Freedom Is Not Free. It was won by our Military, and handed down to us to protect and to enjoy.

If you are a VET, or in Active or Reserve service to our Country, THANK YOU for protecting us while we enjoy. Say HELLO HERE if you have a moment? There are at least 12 of you here that I know of...............Count Off Dirty Dozen !

If you are not a Vet, please thank one.....

1) CHUCK TATOR USAF-Ret
2) JohnH SNAKE 488
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[Sellshomesdrivesviper]

HAPPY VETERANS DAY ....... 11/11/2008

Freedom Is Not Free. It was won by our Military, and handed down to us to protect and to enjoy.

If you are a VET, or in Active or Reserve service to our Country, THANK YOU for protecting us while we enjoy. Say HELLO HERE if you have a moment? There are at least 12 of you here that I know of...............Count Off Dirty Dozen !

If you are not a Vet, please thank one.....

1) CHUCK TATOR USAF-Ret
2)
3)
4)

Well said.

 

[dave6666]

Dave Quad Six-0, Station Operations and Engineering Squadron, Second Marine Air Wing, Cherry Point NC, 1978 - 1981.

What a blast it was.

Semper Fi.

 

[johniew398]

Amen to that.

Major, USAF, Retired here

and my son also retired about a year ago, USAF.

 

[IEATVETS]

Operation Specialist Second Class, U.S Navy, 1985-1992 Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, Ca. with 2 overseas deployments.
Extremely proud to have served this great nation of ours.

 

[eucharistos]

Thank You for Your Service

 

[etecnifibre]

Aviation Electronics Tech 3rd Class, USN, July 93-97. Spent about 10 months of that at sea aboard aircraft carriers, Persian Gulf deployment aboard the USS Nimitz. Very good memories of that. I am proud to have been able to serve, and appreciate those that have served and are presently protecting our freedoms.

 

[96GTS]

[SIZE=+3]What is a Veteran?[/SIZE][SIZE=+3]​

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 ally 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.

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers 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 - or he - 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 **** death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".

"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 protestor to burn the flag."

Father Denis Edward O'Brien/USMC
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[Lee]

USAF 1984 - 1992, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA. I worked as a materials scientist at Rome Laboratory (primarily optical physics and also superconductive materials research).

 

[kcobean]

Only did 6 in the Army, but it was an experience I'll never forget.

To our servicemen and women heading into the holidays away from family and friends, God bless you and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service to our country.

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

A few weeks ago I saw a young Marine at the gym with a mechanical leg. I walked past him as he finished his set and extended my hand to shake. He took it and said "Thanks man." I didn't say a word, I couldn't.


USAF 1978-82

 

[propsail]

Bless you all, and a happy birthday to the Marine Corp as well!

~Craig

 

[BOTTLEFED]

USAF
Aircraft Elec. & Enviro. specialist 1999-2006

thanks to all who served and are still over in the middle east!

 

[big-n-italian]

United States Navy, 6 years. Norfolk Virginia. USS Josephus Daniels CG-27. Gunners Mate Missile Tech, 2nd Class.

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one of the best decisions i ever made was to join the military. an experience i will always be proud of.

 

[kcobean]

United States Navy, 6 years. Norfolk Virginia. USS Josephus Daniels CG-27.

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one of the best decisions i ever made was to join the military. an experience i will always be proud of.

An Italian squid? Would that make you calamari? (Sorry, a little inter-service humor. )

 

[big-n-italian]

i never thought of that! what a great line! might if i use that?

 

[twinturbo3150]

disabled veteran Persian Gulf 91/92 V-4

 

[ViperNM]

Enlisted Air Force 1973-1976, Retired Air Force Major 1995 (1978-1995)

 

[kcobean]

i never thought of that! what a great line! might if i use that?

By all means.

 

[96GTS]

Joined in 1990 and still proudly serving.
2 tours in Saudi, 1 in Cuba, Oman and Afghanistan, and 1 year in Korea after only being married 13 days.

 

[snakebitdave]

Army, 25th Infantry Division, 2nd of the 12th Battalion; Fire Support Base Pershing, Viet Nam 68-69.

A big thanks to those currently serving as well as those who did.

 

[Bobpantax]

I thank all veterans for their service but I especially thank all of those veterans who served in ground combat operations. I was trained as a combat medic. I did not serve in combat but during our training I did see some of the worst images of my life at the burn center at Fort Sam Houston. We used to hear the choppers bringing the soldiers in at all hours. Even after 37 years, as I type this post I can see the images as if it happened today. I was very lucky. Many have to live with images that are far, far worse.

 

[Dads Toy]

My dad was a Vietnam and Korean war Vet. 23 years Air Force. I was Army for 17 years, Desert Shield/Desert Storm Vet. 24th Infantry Division.

 

[steve911]

USAF Aircraft Stuctures 1972-present... SouthEast Asia, SouthWest Asia, Panama,Turkey, Saudi, and many, many parts in between.

B-52's and F-16's really Rock.

 

[VIPER BAZ UK]

Took my little girl Shelby (4) down to the local military march to the town hall wich my Dad took place in and layed a wreath of poppys.......For the first time Shelby was silent and would not let go of me... He did Northern Island and Queens Guards at Buckingham palace and Windsor Casle.... Have a Pic somwhere of me with him at Buckingham Palace....

WELL DONE ALL!!!!!!!!!

 

[2MANYTOYS]

Big THANK YOU to all the veterans!!!!

 

[Snakewatching]

USAF NAM VET C-130 out of Pope AFB supporting 82nd Airborn at Fort Bragg

 

[LifeIsGood]

USA USA

 

[JUCD VPR]

USMC
SSgt - Assistant Detachment Commander - Marine Corps Embassy Security Command
2000-2007

Have Veterans day everyone. Thanks to all of you who have served and thanks to those who serve today! God Bless you Vet's and God bless the USA!

 

[Leslie]

To all of those who have served our country, past and present.

We salute you


-Leslie
LT, USNR-R