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Thanks for posting this Timydnus.

I keep promising myself I'll go down to the American Legion or VFW but... I never do.

Seems so long ago we did this,
but yet sometimes, like today, it's also seems like it was just yesterday.
Interesting irony is my next door neighbors are Viet Namese boat people,
A constant reminder from God that we did the right thing.

I live in Southern Calif. So today I mowed the lawn and thanked
God for my legs and having a whole body after the things I put it through.

For sure, I ain't going to be running any 5 miles runs with full field pack.
I'll leave it to the new warriors.

I/we did our part, we answered the call and we are forever a part (noticed or unnoticed) of this great country's History.
It was an honor to serve and frankly I rarely talk of it to anyone.
1968 - 1969 RVN, Company H 75th Ranger Battalion

Jokar, you should go and meet these "old men" (I prefer the term "vintage heroes"). I was really uplifted and truly touched to the bottom of my heart.

I brought back memories with me, but those memories were good and they made me feel wonderful. This old Ranger was quite humbled to find these heroes. They have truly saved the world, you and I did the same, but it is just now coming to be written in history. Be proud, but be humbled in front of these men. You'll never look on a little old man with a funny hat and a satin jacket the same again.

I sat and drank coffee with these guys and listened. I heard more courage, humble courage, that I have ever heard since my father died (He was 101st, and he was D-day+1) he jumped into occupied Europe before D-day, he was in the bulge, and he marched across the Rhine, then he went to the pacific theater. But he seldom talked about it. These guys are my dad's age, had he lived that long. They are a wonderful breed, and they did save the world. Now we're losing them and it's up to me and you to carry this courage into this "modern" world, along with our service. The present generation will write their own history, in spite of the communist media in this country. They are fine men and they will win this war, and they should, but they won't, spit in the face of the left. They will be our next generation of political leaders, and they will clean this process up.

I'm done now. I hope you go down and have a beer with these guys, It's a life lifting experience.