[Billie]

It started as a Memorial Day Tribute on the Real Memorial Day, but this is really my thank you to all who have served, both in war and in peace, and to our Freeper Vets and those now serving especially.

[LadyX]

Thank you, dear friend, for posting this thread, appropriately, on the actual day of observance;
and for pointing out Decoration Day, still celebrated in the South.

It is a fact many Americans actively demonstrated against our involvement in Nam and vilified our own military.
I know, because I then was a military wife, home alone with three children, without ANY support even from military wives on the base where I remained and taught in the base school.

Everyone pretended it wasn't happening, lest THEIR husband be tapped to go.

One did not speak of it to civilians for obvious reasons.
America's behavior, turning their backs on our military heroes, was a disgrace, and so many veterans were left with not only the horror of what they experienced, but of abandonment by their country.
The latter was worse than the battle scars.

NEVER AGAIN, you reading this who serve today.
WE SUPPORT YOU, AND WILL NOT FORGET YOU.

[blackie]

Great thread Billie !!

Lest We Forget!!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

[deadhead]

This is a Beautiful Tribute Billie. Thank You. I am in awe of your artistic talents. The drawings of Dave and Don are absolutely wonderful.

GOD BLESS OUR FALLEN HEROES
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND VETERANS

[Mama_Bear]

As is everything you do, this tribute is beautiful. Your artistic rendering of Diver Dave and his brother is wonderful. As I have told you so many times before, thank you for sharing your talent with all of us. :-)

I am pinging some people who may have already been pinged to this thread, if so, sorry for the double ping. I can't see all the names on Billie's ping list.

[firewalk]

Thanks Billie! For the ping and for this thread.