Today, take a moment to honor our veterans on Veteran's Day

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Patrick - (2) '26's - Bartow, FL on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 08:05 am:

91 yearsd ago today, on the 11th. hour of the 11th. day of the 11th. month of 1918 World War I ended.  In honor of that day, Armistice Day was created.  It was later changed to Veterans day to honor all veterans who ever served, so today at 11:00, take a moment and, in your personal way, honor all our veterans who are currently serving and who have served our Country, many giving all of their tomorrows for our today.  Thank you Veterans.  Semper Fi.  Jim Patrick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harvey Decker on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 09:13 am:

To all of our GI's in and out of uniform. Thank you and God bless you one and all.

Harvey & Karen Decker


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 09:17 am:

They shall grow not 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.
We will remember them.

.poppy


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Alan Gingles on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 10:19 am:

My wife and I will be heading out to our town's Rememberance Day ceremony this morning. Many of my customers are WWII vets, and I had a number of relatives who served.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Don Vagasky on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 11:03 am:

When a Veteran leaves the 'job' and retires to a better life, many are jealous, some are pleased, and others, who may have already retired,wonder if he knows what he is leaving behind, because we who have left any number of years ago,already know.
1. We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past times.
2. We know in the Military life there is a fellowship which lasts long after the uniforms are hung up in the back of the closet.
3. We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him with every step and breath that remains in his life. We also know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and in his heart still is.
These are the burdens of the job. You will still look at people suspiciously, still see what others do not see or choose to ignore and always will look at the rest of the Military world with a respect for what they do; only grown in a lifetime of knowing, because you have been there. Never think for one moment you are escaping from that life. You are only escaping the 'job' and merely being allowed to leave 'active' duty. So what I wish for you is that whenever you ease into retirement, in your heart you never forget for one moment that you are still a life member of the greatest fraternity the world has ever known. A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or reserve- is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The Government of the United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life'. . . and military spouses are as much veterans as their spouses.
From one Veteran to all other Veterans,past,present and future, it's an honor to be in your company.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Norman T. Kling on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:09 pm:

Thanks to all of you!
Norm


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steven Thum on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 01:23 pm:

My daughter and her family are returning home today. Her husband was stationed in Alaska and has done a year in Iraq. I am so proud of him as I feel he has done his duty and is now returning to the civilian sector. He says he has a job waiting for him, I hope he is right.

I can't think of a better veterans day gift for all of us. Now I can spoil those two Grandsons.

Steven


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Sanders on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 02:39 pm:

ALONE AND FAR REMOVED

Alone and far removed from earthly care
The noble ruins of men lie buried here.
You were strong men, good men
Endowed with youth and much the will to live
I hear no protest from the mute lips of the dead.
They rest; there is no more to give.
So long my comrades,
Sleep ye where you fell upon the field.
But tread softly please
March o'er my heart with ease
March on and on,
But to God alone we kneel.

Audie Murphy

Thank You and God Bless Our Veterans!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Howard D. Dennis on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 03:05 pm:

Don, Thanks and Thank You for your service, that's the most accurate and moving description of a veteran and what Veteran's Day is all about I've ever read.

Howard Dennis
USMC Viet Nam 1968-69
C112 3rd Marine Division

SEMPER FI


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John F. Regan on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 04:05 pm:

Thanks to all veterans for their sacrifice. Those at home suffered later when their "boy" didn't come home. My mom lost the love of her life when my dad didn't answer the roll on October 17, 1944. He was in the Hurtgen Forrest in Germany. Strange as it sounds, one good thing about getting older is that I am getting closer to the day when I finally get to meet him.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Patrick - (2) '26's - Bartow, FL on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 04:14 pm:

The embers glowed softly and in their dim light, I gazed 'round the room and cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, my daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights, in the tree I believe, completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, so I slumbered perhaps, I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud and it wasn't too near, but I opened my eye when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear and I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night, a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old. Perhaps a Marine huddled there in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and he smiled, standing watch over me, my wife and my child.

What are you doing, I asked without fear. Come in here this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, you should be at home on this cold Christmas Eve.
For barely a moment, I saw his eyes shift, away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light and then he sighed and he said, "It's really alright.
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night".

"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, that separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask, or beg, or implore me. I'm proud to stand here like my father's before me.
My Gramps died at Pearl, on a day in December..." then he siged, "That's a day Gram always remembers.
My Dad stood his watch in the Jungles of 'Nam and so now it's my turn, so now here I am.
I've not seen my own son, in more than awhile, but my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile".
Then he bent and he carfully pulled from his bag, the red, white and blue...an American flag.

"I can live through the cold and the being alone, away from my framily, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, I can sleep in a foxhole, with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another, or lay down my life with my sisters and brothers.
Who stand at the front, against any and all, to ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.
So go back inside", he said, "harbor no fright, your family is waiting and I'll be alright".

But isn't there something I can do at the least? Give you money? I asked or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all you have done, for being away from your wife and your son.
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret. "Just tell us you love us and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone. To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead, to know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough and with that we will trust, that we mattered to you as you mattered to us".

A poem by Marine Sgt. Chris Fannin serving in Iraq


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By "Hap" (Harold) Tucker on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 05:00 pm:

To all who have served and are serving -- THANK YOU!

Thankfully submitted,

Hap Tucker l915 Model T Ford Touring cut off and made into a pickup truck and l907 Model S Runabout. Sumter SC.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Andrew K. Deckman on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 05:24 pm:

Thank you for the well wishes. I have seen a great change in the time that I was in. From getting spit on and not being able to shop at certion stores. At the beginning of my time in. I was in the army just for five years from 91 to 96. My dad and grandads where all in the military my dad always taught me to respect military folk. I have been stationed in Korea and saw how it is to be in another country. When I came back I kissed the ground, due to the differances I saw over there. I love this land and anybody that serves it. I do not care your politics. I do not care your race. We were all green and like to take this time to say hoooh!!!
Thank you and WELCOME HOME!!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Davis on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 05:29 pm:

Very moving, all of it. I have tears in my eyes from reading that last one. My father and I both served, but never saw combat. My grandfather saw combat in the Pacific in WWII. My son has been to Iraq with his Marine Reserve unit. He may have to go to Afghanistan. I'm hoping not. He called me this morning to wish me a Happy Veteran's Day. We should all be very thankful for the things we have and the country we live in and should always remember that freedom isn't free.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 11:31 pm:

My thanks to all that have served and those that are. David Stroud, Crew Chief, 271st Assault Support Helicopter Company (Chinooks) , Can Tho, Viet Nam, '70-'71


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 11:23 pm:

"Welcome Home" Brother Dave.
My Mrs. and I are both Vets. Momma is US Army (WAC) 69-71. Her (late) ex-husband was a Viet Nam Chinook Crew Chief, (died a few years back from complications of Agent Orange).
I'm Air Force 64-68.
315th Air Division,(C-130's).
Tan Son Nhut 66-67
We spent Vets Day at the mobile Viet Nam Wall with a bunch of our "Brothers".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 12:59 pm:

Lots of kind words here. I'm sure glad the members of our club support us Vets. I had my flag out all day. I served in Viet Nam aboard two different submarines, and retired from the reserves in 1984 with 20 years active and reserve service.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 03:32 am:

Dennis, thanks. Welcome Home to you also. We have been to the Moving wall several times over the years. A local small town of about 360 people has had it there three times in the last several years. Always a special time for me. Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob Heyen on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 07:21 am:

photo

It will come back and ask you if you want to browse to the file – then you can browse to where the file is that you want to upload.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob Heyen on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 07:33 am:

Sorry guys, trying to post and I was using another thread to follow the directions. Along as I'm in this one, I'll try posting a photo from my girls school Veterans Day program. Pictured (if I do this correctly) are my dad (to my left, WWII vet, Uncle (twenty year National Guard) and cousin (also National Guard). Two of my dad's other brothers didn't make the program, but are also WWII vets.

I can still get the uniform on, but not quite the fit it used to be.

veterans


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