Veterans

ch · 11-11-2010, 07:27 AM

Thanks for your service fellows. One nation under God. My heart morns for all who paied the ultament price for me. Can't believe the kids have to go to school today.

ch

Old and Reliable · 11-11-2010, 07:46 AM

Stand white crosses all in a row-- So many brave men paid the ultimate price for our freedom we sometimes tend to take for granted nowadays. If you see a Veteran in your travels today, please take a moment and shake his hand and thank him. And fly our Flag!!

Brush Buster · 11-11-2010, 10:33 AM

If this nonsense in Washington keeps up ,it won't be long until we will be arrested for flying our Flag, and YES a big THANK YOU

to all of our Vets. They are the real and only reason we still have our freedom to enjoy our gun collecting and all the other Liberties we just seem to take for granted most of the time !

TARNATION !!! · 11-11-2010, 12:53 PM

Yes, THANKS to the Veterans who secured the freedoms we all enjoy. Thinking out loud here but maybe taking the freedoms somewhat for granted is in a way a great compliment. The fact we don't have to look over our shoulder in fear and can go about our daily lives content that tomorrow will come and our children can pursue their own happiness in whatever manner is a testament to what our Veteran's sacrifices have secured for us. We do remember on special days and give pause to think about the cost of freedom and some will remember every day but the vast majority will continue to live day to day without much thought about why they can. In the old forum I posted a Never Off Topic thanks to our Vets because of a small folded newspaper clipping I almost missed but found in an old suitcase of memories that had been ravaged by a flood. Most of the contents I have now managed to salvage. Here are two more that go together well. My mother-in-law was a recent bride when she found herself buried in the rubble of what had been a block of ten homes, thanks to the random nature of a V1 rocket attack. She did survive by getting under a "Morrison" table when she heard the "doodle bug" engine cut out. She was claustrophic her entire life. I have no idea who wrote the poem. I have had it researched by the Imperial War Museum in London but with no success. (A.R.P. refers to Air Raid Precautions - a part of civil defence.) This poem remains anonymous but poignant. (If it is not easy to see, click on it for a larger version and if still not large enough to read, hold down the Ctrl key and then tap the + key a few times. A good trick for old eyes

) The newspaper clipping is a salute to the Vets who made the supreme sacrifice.

Jack

Dean Romig · 11-11-2010, 01:13 PM

What a time!

What grit our parents and grandparents had to be able to endure such hell.

What unGodly evil the human mind is capable of to do this to fellow man.

To fight back (and even to be victorious) is right and just and we honor those who did and do.

Autumn Daze · 11-11-2010, 01:34 PM

Amen Dean.....Amen

Richard Flanders · 11-11-2010, 02:57 PM

Of all the strange and odd things that happen in the world, it's the understanding of the extent of "man's inhumanity to man" that eludes me the most.

william johnson · 11-11-2010, 04:22 PM

as a viet nam vet you are all welcome it was an honor to serve

Dean Romig · 11-11-2010, 04:31 PM

Thanks William for your service. I wish you could have come home to a more thoughtful and thankful public but with Johnson and McNamara in charge it was just not to be. They are the ones who brought disgrace upon our military, not any of you guys!

Old and Reliable · 11-11-2010, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by william johnson

as a viet nam vet you are all welcome it was an honor to serve

- I have the tracings and locations on the Wall where the names of two of my very best friends from HS are- both KIA in 'Nam. Donny went from 82nd. Airborne in SF and was killed in an ambush. Tony was a door gunner in the Air Cav on a Huey that took a direct hit from a SAM. I can still close my eyes and see them when we graduated in 1960- we all enlisted as we knew we would be drafted sooner or later. I won't get political in this sector, but Bro Romig has the exact co-ordinates- we were sold out by LBJ and that Ford bean counter McNamara. You don't win wars or conflicts by "micro-managing" troops, you win them the way Gen Patton explained in no uncertain terms to his troops and officers--

My two best friends are gone forever- maybe we'll hoist a few in the next life- and 58286 KIA and countless MIA's are the legacy- they died and that traitor Hanoi Jane Fonda is still alive and doing fine I hear. God sure has a strange sense of humor I guess- Semper Fi!!