Just remembering...just thanking you.
I know it's a tad late but welcome home and thank you.
Just remembering...just thanking you.
I appreciate what you did then and do now for the republic.
I have relatives serving at this moment.
Sorry I wasn't around to help you back then. Hopefully I can buy you a cold one sometime.
I owe you one.
God Bless and thank you.
Yes, and Thank You for your efforts. Glad to see you here.
Welcome home :)
Considering it was 10 years before I was even born....well, I am just glad this nation has had men like you who are willng to step up to the plate...
I was only 16 days old.
However, I truly recognize and sincerely appreciate the sacrifice that you and all our armed forces make on a daily basis.
I never fail to do so, and my thanks to you.
Thanks for your service, RA.
Great post...your words ring true. I still think back to my tour in the Army (76-84) and mostly remember the good times. The guys that I served with did some amazing things during the Carter years. After seeing what we had to work with in terms of materiel, ammo, and Presidential leadership, I still wonder why (other than MAD) the Soviets didn't try to cross the Fulda Gap.
No disrespect intended to my fellow soldiers and airmen. They would have performed well, but we just didn't have the numbers to sustain a battle for more than two weeks.
I guess it falls back on MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction), and maybe all of those Soviet divisions weren't as combat ready as feared.
Thank you..thank you very much.
"Just remembering."
I remember An Khe very well. I occasionally drove a truck down there from Camp Enari to haul a load of rock back in a somewhat futile attempt to pave our company area so it wasn't always a sea of mud. 1967-68, that was. Not much of a "highway", good place to get ambushed. Glad we both made it back.
And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom he abuses to burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the commander in chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
Sen. Zell Miller.
Thank you for your service, RetiredArmy.
Spent my 4 years Army 84-88. No combat so I must hear from my fellow soldiers on how it really was.
PS I think the same of Washington State as you do :)
Welcome home brother
a hearty thanks to you for your service from a military brat! I appreciate what you've done and trust me, being a Navy brat, it's tough on both the soldier and the family. My father served 24 years in the Navy and his father did close to 30 years in the Army including 2 tours in Vietnam. On my mother's side, my grandfather was in Pearl Harbor when it happened and we all know that not many made it out of that unscathed, but he was one of the lucky few. Anyway, I'm rambling, thanks for your service!
Thanks for your service, Army!
USMC
Chu Lai RVN. 1966-68
Only a traitor or moron wouldn't support our own military. I too am a vet. However, my questions, suspicions and yes, even lack of support have always been directed at the politicians, for going in, their motives, their objectives, plans for winning and exiting.