Posted on 11/10/2011 7:16:05 PM PST by RightOnline
[Note to all: I've finally resurrected what was a tradition here for several years on FR....the "Veterans' Check-In". Much has happened since I started this...twelve years ago. Three of my five sons are now veterans, including a Bronze Star-winning Stryker platoon leader in Iraq back during the 'surge' days (FReeper "Future Snake Eater"), a combat videographer who jumped in so young I had to sign papers to allow him to serve, and a 'grunt' from Ft. Polk who just got back from Afghanistan). God bless them, God bless you all. I've included the original text from all those years ago here.]
While splashing some coffee into my eyes in a feeble attempt to wake up (early plane to catch this AM), I still wanted to take a moment and express my...and I'm sure "our"...appreciation to all of you veterans. We salute you on this Veterans Day for your sense of duty, commitment, honor, and sacrifice. Whether you served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, or any number of other "hot spots" around the globe, may we offer our thanks and deepest respect for what you've given and helped to protect.
May God in His Heaven bless all of you, and just know that many, many of us remember. You will never be forgotten.
Take a moment and "check in" here, all you vets. It's your day. Those of us who served during "peacetime" especially salute the combat veterans; those who survived the bullets and incoming and left so many close friends behind. A special prayer to all of you today.
Blessings on you both....and you’d best keep sharp around her, FRiend, or she’ll have you pushing soil and counting pushups.......with love, of course.
Happy Vet’s Day, smooth.
USAF Security Service 1960-1963. Ditty-bopped in the Philippines and Italy. Spent 33 more years as a civilian doing pretty much the same job.
Signing in.
Bet your dad and I were peers, time-wise....recce pilots had a very, very tough mission in those days and were largely unappreciated.
Not by me; not by many.
Give him my thanks and shake his hand for me.
Retired (2006) Air Force Master Sergeant (E-7).
Served 20 years as a Medic in AFLC (you old timers will remember the “Logistics” command) and AFMC. Did my time at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. What a great (and fast) 20 years!
2ndDivisionVet: I’ll be praying for God’s grace and healing for both you and your wife’s health. <(((><
So do you two ‘fight’ during the Army-Navy game? :) God bless both of you.
I appreciate it.
Back atcha, Brother!
USMC 69-73...atten hut’! At ease gentlemen...I’ll be in the area all day.
Semper Fi do or die! One more for the Corps!
I'll do that when I see him for Christmas next month.
Did you ever work/live in Oak Harbor, WA, by any chance?
Thank you for your service to our great nation!
Yes, that Mississippi redneck dropout holds the record for the youngest MSgt. in AF history. My Dad, God rest his soul. An amazing man.
Checking in, USMC, Vietnam vet and watching the history channel and their presentation “Vietnam In HD”
Nope...never lived in WA, although the AF (and then the computer industry) moved me all over the country.
Military Police, 55th MP Co., HQ I Corps (Gp), Camp Red Cloud, S. Korea 1966-1968.
checking in USAF - vietnam era, I was in Europe almost as long as in US - but most of the duty was semi-isolated bases. Me and Bill Cosby - “MEDIC, I don’t make house calls.”
To you and your sons-Thank You for your service!
1968 - 2003 US Army Medical Corps. Stationed stateside, & in a lifetime, I’ve gotten to meet lots of great warriors, from Spanish-American vets to current active. Just returned from 2-week drive through Normandy, started at Ste. Mere-Eglise, finished at Bastogne and Luxemburg Cemetery and Ramstein. A pause and a prayer at 1111 hrs., 11-11-11. God bless ‘em all.
Checking in...
Desert Storm, O-3 MI with 3rd ACR.
OIF 3, E-6 MI/FA troop in FOB Ramadi. Spent a year getting mortared and missiled by the worst shots in the world.
Now an E-7 in the ING.
http://themilitarywallet.com/veterans-day-free-meals-and-discounts/#axzz1dMfMHOyz
Free meals for vets.
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