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Todd.Hanz
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Today is Veterans Day, I'd like to say thanks to all who served and who are serving today.
Good night Chesty 😉
Sempre Fidelis,
Todd
USMC
Good night Chesty 😉
Sempre Fidelis,
Todd
USMC
Veterans, Thank You!
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popstar
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Agreed. Today is a good time to thank all who have served, and those who continue to serve. We should be thankful every day, but it never hurts to have the attention of the nation for at least one day!
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Jon Claremont
I took a few minutes at at 11.00 to to remember.
gb hill
Veteran
From one Vet to another, and to all! Thank You! I had the privelige to serve our great country back in 1980-81 on the USS LaSalle AGF3...Great White Ghost of the Arabian Coast... because the ship was painted white. This was also the Flag ship for the Com. Mid East Force homeported in Bahrain. We flew CH-53s during the Iran hostage crisis, finally bringing the ship home to Phila. Naval Shipyard for complete overhaul, going on record for the longest around the world cruise for any Naval vessel. Anyhow thanks again for your service to our country and letting an ol middle age Navy fart share just a few memories.
reagan
hey, they're only Zorkis
A huge Thank You to all our former and present Military Guys. God Bless 'em all every day!
IGMeanwell
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Trius
Waiting on Maitani
Let me add my thanks and deep appreciation. (BTW, in the beloved GWN it's Remembrance Day, which is sort of a nice twist/perspective.) I'm pretty much a pacifist, but whenever I think of the people who actually have served, whatever their reasons, I am filled with appreciation. When I watch the ceremonies on TV, especially the CDN D-Day ceremonies at Juno beach, I cry profusely.
Thanks.
Thanks.
venchka
Veteran
Thanks Dad! Thanks Robert! Thanks all!
dmr
Registered Abuser
Yes, whether or not you support the current goings-on, please support the people, men and women, who have volunteered to do a very difficult job for low pay and very harsh conditions.
I'm sure most everyone here has a brother, maybe even sister, father, co-worker, friend who is a vet or active reserve. Tell them thanks and give them a hug, please! 🙂
Thanks, Vets! 🙂
I'm sure most everyone here has a brother, maybe even sister, father, co-worker, friend who is a vet or active reserve. Tell them thanks and give them a hug, please! 🙂
Thanks, Vets! 🙂
Dougg
Seasoned Member
Thanks to all other vets for your service to your country!
Doug Miles
USAF
Doug Miles
USAF
Terao
Kiloran
Watching the Festival of Rememberance at the moment on TV here, will go to the local ceremony tomorrow I expect and take some photos. Grandfather survived the war (good job otherwise I wouldn't be here!), fought in tanks in Africa and Italy. Great Uncle of mine not so lucky and died in WW1 in Belgium. One family in the village (more of a hamlet - a dozen houses or so) lost three sons in that war, two of them in one week at The Somme...
Their sacrifice is beyond comprehension in times like these where a single death is felt so collectively.
Unfortunately not all people have the same respect, this news story here has sickened me: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6139662.stm
Their sacrifice is beyond comprehension in times like these where a single death is felt so collectively.
Unfortunately not all people have the same respect, this news story here has sickened me: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6139662.stm
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Both my granddads served in the First World War, Granddad Smith with the Queens Own Rifles out of Toronto and Grandpa Bush with the British.
I went to Rememberance Day ceremony at Queens Park in Toronto where the 48th Highlanders were paying their respects with a parade. Photos will eventually show up in my flickr stream.
Bill
I went to Rememberance Day ceremony at Queens Park in Toronto where the 48th Highlanders were paying their respects with a parade. Photos will eventually show up in my flickr stream.
Bill
Ash
Selflessly Self-involved
Just had the minutes silence on the Rememberence service on BBC1
Kinda embarassed I didn't have a poppy on, but at the same time I have only seen a single person selling them, and I had about 2p in my pocket.
My guitar teacher was in the RAF during the war. Squadron Leader Gerald Kerr.. I know at least great grandfather was involved. Wallace is on one of the doors of the HMS Belfast. Can't remember the other family members involved.
I doubt the Rememberence day could ever be forgotten or phased out, not after the current 'world situation' - a whole new generation (mine) are having brothers and fathers killed in Iraq and across the world. Suddenly it becomes quite a contemporary event.
My history trip to the western front (France, Belgium) has got to be one of the trips I want to repeat more than any other. Although the Allied graves are a spectacular sight, with vast fields of white graves, the single cemetary with mass graves for the German soldiers is the most sombre I have ever visited.
Kinda embarassed I didn't have a poppy on, but at the same time I have only seen a single person selling them, and I had about 2p in my pocket.
My guitar teacher was in the RAF during the war. Squadron Leader Gerald Kerr.. I know at least great grandfather was involved. Wallace is on one of the doors of the HMS Belfast. Can't remember the other family members involved.
I doubt the Rememberence day could ever be forgotten or phased out, not after the current 'world situation' - a whole new generation (mine) are having brothers and fathers killed in Iraq and across the world. Suddenly it becomes quite a contemporary event.
My history trip to the western front (France, Belgium) has got to be one of the trips I want to repeat more than any other. Although the Allied graves are a spectacular sight, with vast fields of white graves, the single cemetary with mass graves for the German soldiers is the most sombre I have ever visited.
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Terao
Kiloran
Uncle Bill said:
Grandad served with Canadians and Kiwis in WW2, had the utmost respect for their fighting abilities. Fought in tank support for Canadians in Italy...
raid
Dad Photographer
I always value the ultimate scarifices offered by veterans to their nations.
Raid
Raid
butch
Established
I watched the 5 survivors of Doolittle's raid and then 5 representatives of the Hanoi Hilton. It was bracing in a way, but also punched me in the gut again and again. My thanks to all. especially Hampton Allen Etheridge and Paul Harrison. Their names are on a black wall but also in my earliest memories.
kshapero
South Florida Man
Thanks to my dad who sat in the navigator's cube on 31 missions over the South Pacific and Japan in the Supperfortress B-29. And thanks for being honest and telling me that you were scared ****less. Thanks for coming back alive. Thanks to all our brave lads and lasses for their service and sacrifice.
Stu W
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Akiva, my uncle Davey was a navigator on a Liberator. My Dad and my uncle Al served in the Pacific.
My uncle Al was wounded in the Phillipines. My uncle and Dad told me about how my father went to visit him in the hospital. Dad passed away this year, and when I went through some of his old Army things I found a funny piece of paper. It was orders signed by a Colonel saying that my father was carrying information that was "vital to the war effort" and he was to be flown immediately to Manila. Of course it was all a ruse to visit my uncle in the hospital.
Dad lived in the jungle for 3 years. So did uncle Al. Uncle Davey maxed out without a scratch.
When the war was over the 3 brothers all made it home. My Dad told me how he took a bus from Fort Dix to the subway, to the bus, then walked the 2 blocks to my Grandparents house. Just walked in and yelled out "I'm home".
2 weeks later he was back at work.
Sorry about the long story. I just don't think they make men like them anymore. Stu
My uncle Al was wounded in the Phillipines. My uncle and Dad told me about how my father went to visit him in the hospital. Dad passed away this year, and when I went through some of his old Army things I found a funny piece of paper. It was orders signed by a Colonel saying that my father was carrying information that was "vital to the war effort" and he was to be flown immediately to Manila. Of course it was all a ruse to visit my uncle in the hospital.
Dad lived in the jungle for 3 years. So did uncle Al. Uncle Davey maxed out without a scratch.
When the war was over the 3 brothers all made it home. My Dad told me how he took a bus from Fort Dix to the subway, to the bus, then walked the 2 blocks to my Grandparents house. Just walked in and yelled out "I'm home".
2 weeks later he was back at work.
Sorry about the long story. I just don't think they make men like them anymore. Stu
Terao
Kiloran
Agree - my grandfather went back to being a milkman (do you have those the other side of the pond?) for the remaining 30 years of his working life...
Short tubby guy (much like me) and then you find out what he got his Military Medal for (dragging his injured crewmates single-handed out of his Sherman under heavy fire, covered in blood and gore from his tank commander who had had his legs blown off by an 88...). Totally impossible to reconcile that with the man I knew (quiet hard-working family guy). Here's a pic taken in the Western Desert somewhen in '41...
There's a whole stack here:
http://photos.kiloran.com/c225557_1.html
Short tubby guy (much like me) and then you find out what he got his Military Medal for (dragging his injured crewmates single-handed out of his Sherman under heavy fire, covered in blood and gore from his tank commander who had had his legs blown off by an 88...). Totally impossible to reconcile that with the man I knew (quiet hard-working family guy). Here's a pic taken in the Western Desert somewhen in '41...
There's a whole stack here:
http://photos.kiloran.com/c225557_1.html
Stu W
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Somewhere in the Pacific.
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