HAPPY VETERANS DAY To All My Brothers & Sisters In Arms...

[High_Plains_Drifter]

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[CSM]

AMEN! right back at ya too

[Bilgerat]

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[Abbey Marie]

My dad, veteran of the WWII Italian campaign, including Monte Casino, awarded a Bronze Star for capturing two German soldiers singlehandedly.
Taken at age 93, shortly before he passed.

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[Elessar]

Nothing I can write or show will top those entries.

All I can do is say God Bless You, One and All!:salute:

Honor the departed; cherish those still here.

[aboutime]

Abbey. This is for your Dad! 21 gun salute.

God Bless his Daughter and Wife Who Also Served.



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The Greatest Generation Of All.

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[FakeNewsSux]

A veteran with a lesson for us all:


https://youtu.be/GKaakjMVtyE

[jimnyc]

"devil dog" - I never even made it to that stage, I took the cowards way out. I had wanted to be a Marine SO SO badly when I was just becoming a teenager until I was like 19 or 20 or so. I finally grew a set and went to talk to the recruiter by my house. It all sounded great. But in my head I still couldn't come to terms with the time away from home for the boot camp, and then the 6 years of duty. And this was like 1988 or 89, so I certainly would have ended up with the gulf war looking back. I wasn't afraid of war or having my ass kicked in training - simply afraid of being away from home for too long. Anyway, the day after I visit this guy, my doorbell rings. I look out the window from the 2nd floor and it's him! No effing way, so I didn't answer the "call". He's outside yelling "hey, devil dog, answer the door" and stuff like that! Kinda freaked me, like I was about to be shipped off to Parris Island right then and there! -- So yeah, I took the cowards way out, but have had more admiration for those men and women... and from all branches. And not because I wussed out, but more because I knew WHY I had wanted to join to begin with.

Serve my country. Protect our country. Protect those who can't protect themselves. To be bigger and stronger and more disciplined.

I saw that Pete Davidson video yesterday. That was great! I love him as a comedian, but had to drop him after his comments of last week mocking Dan Crenshaw. But he made it up to me and is in my good graces again. And what Crenshaw stated I never thought of - that when you see a Vet, to say "Never Forget" - to show that we aren't all that different, that we are all in this together" sort of stuff. And that makes a lot of sense. Look, I'm not naive, I KNOW there's a difference between the men and women that answered their doors and doorbells and took that call, and folks like myself who chose state side education and direct to careers or whatever.

So THANK YOU to those who took that call, that allowed me the peace of mind to freely make my choices and freely go to school and chase a career. All the freedoms I have I know exactly where they came from, from our current veterans, from our currently deployed and from our long history of men and women who did the same to preserve what we have here in the United States.

[Mr. P]

My respect and thanks for all those who served before me and those who follow behind me. :salute:

[NightTrain]

Never Forget! :salute:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTs6a0ORdQU

[Black Diamond]

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[Abbey Marie]

This was good to see:


https://youtu.be/kON1aYcFONQ