To all Veterans Welcome Home

[allen newell]

To all our veterans who came home, welcome home. To those dear veterans who didn't come home, God Bless you and hold you in his arms.

To my generation of veterans who served in Viet Nam....you are not forgotten and thank you all for your sacrifice and dedication during that time of war and strife at home. God Bless you all.

A.H. Newell, STG-3
USS Blandy DD 943
Viet Nam and Westpac 1968

[Dean Romig]

God Bless Them!! Welcome home even if it was in a box - WELCOME HOME AMERICAN HEROES!!!





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[Garry L Gordon]

Thanks, Allen, for the post...and for your service (and sacrifice in doing so). Bless all who served and are serving.

[Stephen Hodges]

Allen, my Dad was a WWII vet. He was a Norden Bomb Sight Specialist. He chested Rommel across north Africa and was severely wounded in a night raid by the Germans on the island or Corsica. Spent 18 months in VA hospitals and countless operations before being released. Was considered 75% disabled by his military pension, but you would have never known that. Was a successful business man and rarely spoke of his WW II service. Truly of our greatest generation. He passed at 90 years old.

[todd allen]

God bless our servicemen, past and present.

[allen newell]

Steve, God bless your dad. That generation was truly the greatest.
My dad's poor eyesight kept him from enlisting in the Navy. He spent the war years working at the Charles Town Navy Shipyard as a Class A machinest. He didn't talk about it much and I only recall one conversation when he told me proudly that he balanced the propellers on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. In that same conversation he told me of the ships that had been torpedoed and had come to the shipyard for repairs. He cried when he described the horrible damage to these ships and having to clean out body parts in compartments that had taken hits and or were flooded.

[Mark Britton]

My Dad 76 Infantry Division under General Patton RIP Pops I miss you.

[henderson Marriott]

To the combat veterans among us now, and to those who went on before us even back
to 1776: there are always those who step up and volunteer to go in harms way. We need them. America will always need them and God will provide them.

Henderson R. Marriott
LtCol-USA-Ret
5th Special Forces Gp (ABN) MACVSOG
Khe Sanh Vietnam 1970-72 1st LT

[Richard Dow]

My father , Lt. Russell Dow was killed Nov. 19, 1944 just before the battle of the Bulge. He was a tank officer and 23 years old with a 8 month pregnant wife at home. I was able to find his grave at the military cemetery. In St. Avold France some years back.
My stepfather, Master Sgt. Frank Mayer was 17 (yes 17) when he was captured on Bataan. He then took the Bataan Death March and remained a prisoner of war for 3 yrs and 7 mo. He was on two different transport ships heading for Japan that were sunk by the Americans. At one point he floated for 48 hrs before being picked up and he could not swim. He weighed 85 lbs. when liberated. He had jungle rot on his legs the rest of his life. He pulled his own teeth one by one with a pair of pliers over the years as he put up with the effects of malnutrition and alcohol. He died at 61.
These are the men I think about on Memorial Day.
Teach your kids and grandkids who preserved their freedom for them. I’m already working on my young great grandkids. Best

[allen newell]

Wonderful memories all..To those brave souls, both men and women who have served the country and did not come home, we salute and honor you. You are not forgotten.

[todd allen]

In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

[allen newell]

Amen

[William McClintock]

Salute! To all our veterans. Welcome Home.

William McClintock
CDR USN rtd