Thank You Vets

[firemonkey]

I want to thank all of our Veterans that post here! and thank them for all that they have done for us! For those who don't know today is Veterans Day here in the USA, We honor all of our Veterans today, I would also like to thank all the Vets that post here that are out alies.

Please take a bow and state the branch you served, what you do and years of service. Also I would like to keep this serious to a degree.


Also if you spouse/so is currently serving. Please let us know.

once again THANK YOU!!!!

[PuterGeekGirl]

[TripleRLtd]

Way to go FireMonkey: Firemen are veterans of a different sort, but also serving their country/community.


ME:
US Air Force
VietNam Era but not in country.
Joined right at the end of Nam.
Stationed in Texas/Mississippi, and : North Dakota.
Security Police Squadron/personnel specialist (in the office wtih the officers).
My first orders were for Utapao AFB in Thailand, but Thailand was going communist at the time and threw the US out, so three days later I got the same orders with a red line through it. Two weeks later I got new orders to North Dakota!
I like to think that was typical of my life back then: one extreme to the other.
It also made me wish I joined the Navy.

[Cleetus]

Triple, I don't know anyone who got stationed in Minot(sp), ND and didn't get out of the Air Force and wish they never joined. Hell, it did its job of pushing my dad out.

[DonJ]

I spent six years active duty in the U.S. Navy. Mostly on aircraft carriers. Like I've said many times, "Joining the Navy was the best thing I've ever done...and getting OUT of the Navy was the second best thing I've ever done."

Again, Happy Veteran's Day!!!

[DocPC]

US Army. Served 6 years as a Medic inluding 6 months in Beirut.

[Stalemate]

The only link I have to the military is my grandfather on my mother's side (WWII), but I wanted to post this anyway:

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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.
What is a vet?

• He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Iraq 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 drill instructor that has never seen combat--but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks, city boys/girls, 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 die 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.
• 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 *****ions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

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 lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the soldier,
not the politician,
who has given us the right to vote.

It is the soldier,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

Let's remember them on Veteran's Day, November 11th.
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[Garfield99]

For those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

"They shall not grow old,
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them"

-- Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

[TripleRLtd]

I want to know why our most famous and exalted Veteran, and recently promoted to teh Doc's WD Hall of Fame, has not posted here yet???
Yo, Ya_Know, time to check in jarhead.
Some people here actually appreciate us.
Right Doc?
So, a medic huh?
In Beirut you must have had some work.
It could have been MedicPC, right?
Yo, Ya_K???

[shamus]

[DocPC]

I want to know why our most famous and exalted Veteran, and recently promoted to teh Doc's WD Hall of Fame, has not posted here yet???
Yo, Ya_Know, time to check in jarhead.
Some people here actually appreciate us.
Right Doc?
So, a medic huh?
In Beirut you must have had some work.
It could have been MedicPC, right?
Yo, Ya_K???

Yup....was hard work.

[TripleRLtd]

Yup....was hard work.

Ya_Know must be playing hard to get.

[Ya_know]

I didn't have much to say...

When I think of Veterans Day, I remember walking through Arlington cemetery…and I am always left speechless.

[TripleRLtd]

I didn't have much to say...

When I think of Veterans Day, I remember walking through Arlington cemetery…and I am always left speechless.

Point taken, but:

Please take a bow and state the branch you served, what you do and years of service.