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To: Signalman

Welcome home.


2 posted on 05/25/2026 12:15:39 PM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth. ©️)
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To: clintonh8r
Thanks for a nice Memorial Day tribute and rememberence of a good friend.

My family has been quite lucky as most of us served (or are serving currently) in uniform, we've all made it through with only minor stuff.

If memory serves, there was a teammate on my high school football team who didn't survive the Vietnam war, and same for the sons of a couple of family friends (one of whom was, so tragically a suicide because when he returned home from the war, his estranged wife would not let him visit his young son.) There was also a very nice young woman who worked for me as a librarian, whose husband was MIA in Vietnam.

Tragedies all, and it is so very important that we recall their deeds and sacrifices.

Especially on Memorial Day, and especially in these days where so many enjoy our freedoms who did nothing to defend them, and have no gratitude for those who did so and sacrificed their lives in the process.

4 posted on 05/25/2026 12:31:05 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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