Tuesday Nov 11 2008, Veteran's Day

Thank a vet.  It means alot to them.

Excellent post!! 

My feelings also: Here, Here for this excellent post and for m1's additional suggestion.

Indeed it does, everyday of their life.

I tear up when I see the service people coming back from Iraq on leave.  Here at DFW the people go out to meet those service people to thank them for their service, something that wasn't done in my time.  Then it was the hippy's, druggie and war protesters calling you every name in the book and spitting on you.  So I have mixed emotions around this time of the year.  I hope it never reverts back to that.  I was proud to serve my country for 20 years and am still moved when I see on the news about  serviceman that didn't make it home.  Now its all volunteer but in my day they drafted and I know they all didn't want to be there but went anyway instead of going to Canada.  It was a cold day in hell when they pardoned them and let them come back.  Oh well, I want to thank those vets that are serving now and to thank those that are remembering us.

My Baby Sis just got home from Coast Guard Boot Camp today, but she is leaving back out ironicallly on Veterens Day.

My father was a vet and his birthday was Nov. 11th.  He would have been 79 years young this tuesday, if he were still here. So I salute all you vets out there that have and will fight for my freedoms! If not for you, we wouldn't be the great country we are today. I have 3 nephews in the service right now, and 1 niece. One nephew who has served in Iraq twice. He currently suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  They do give a lot for us, and those who come home don't necessarily come home as the same person as before.  So Yes!!  Thank a vet daily!!   

Thanks Philly. Well said.

For us here in Australia(and in most Commonwealth Countries),November 11th is Remebrance Day.A day used to commerate the end of the WW1.With more wars fought after,it now is used to remember every war,every serviceman/woman who ever was involved with our armed services in any capacity.

And i also want to thank any vets everywhere who have fought for the freedoms,we take for granted today.

Lest We Forget.

WOM, I went into the Air Force in '68 and through my 20 years we where always highly encouraged to travel in civilian clothes,  even when stateside and just going off base.  Times and attitudes do change.  I too never want to see it revert back.

Thank you to those who replied, much appreciated.

BUMPITY BUMP! 

At my youngest daughter's school they have a wall year round where the kids can put up pictures of their friends and family that have served or are serving in the armed forces.  I am proud that both my father and father-in-law's pictures are on that wall.

One of my biggest disappointments is that I was medically discharged from the Army during basic training at Ft. Lost-in-the-woods.  I was so proud to enlist . . so devastated when I left.

Thank you all who were able to serve or are service now.  I owe you my freedom.

To all of the veterans of all the wars and from every country.  Please know we appreciate your sacrifices and salute you.

My Father was a Vet, he passed in 95 due to complications of his time in Nam, which from what im told are passed genetically to their offspring.  I am Proud of his service. He and all the Vets past and future are Hero's to me.

Bump.

Great post Philly. I thank my father often. He did two tours in Nam....not to mention uncles and cousins, and some very close friends who have also served, and some lost. Thank you one and all.

Service seems to run in some families. In mine it's not "if" but "when".

I was enlisted Navy as was my father & his brothers, his father, his father and possibly his father..... My Uncle says Marine, but his mother, my Grandmother, says Navy........ Beyond that I don't know.

My brother was the first to break tradition and went in about 10 years after me with a degree and was a Naval Officer. Since he's not all that bright, we've all forgiven him.

Looks like my son intends to break tradition even further. He says he wants to be a jarhead. I told him he'd have to have brain surgery to reduce his IQ first.......   At least he's agreed to wait until he has a college degree so he can go in as an officer.

So to all those who preceded me and to all those I served with and all those since and to come......Thank You

General Order #5

Lest we forget....

Poem by Laurence Binyon

   With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is a music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncountered:
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn*.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end they remain.

They shall grow not old....as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn*
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them

ANZAC Australia New Zealand Army Corps

Let the stories be told of how the Brave People of this land made it what it is today and forever will be!

I am a Retired military Vet 1963 to 1986 USMC and Air Force. I thank you Just to let you know November 10th was the Marine Corps Birthday So Semper Fi to all those that are serving and have served

Skol to those that can no longer be with us, let us never forget them.

If you get a moment this is a pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0

Very well put Philly.

All of my uncles served,on both sides of my family,some in the Navy,some Army,one in the Air Force.My father was a P.O.W.guard in Korea.I was a Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic in '73-'74 and served in Germany.Combined,we served through three wars.My step-daughter was also a truck mechanic in the Army in the U.S. and Korea.All of us got to come home.

Never forget those who did not.Without their sacrifices our world would be a very different place.

Btw,Zubaz,both my step-daughter and I and took basic training at Lost-in-the-woods.

Thanks

Indeed!