Aloha Smooth and Allegra, glat to meetcha Rightonline!
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.
Let Me Say,Happy Veterans Day to all My Fellow Veterans and espechially to those who are serving Now in all the potential hell holes on the planet earth.
I served with the U.S.A.F. in the Strategic Air Command, Pacific Air Forces In the Republic of Korea and Prior to that at Air Force Systems Command at Patrick AFB.1974-1980.
Happy Vet's day to us, one and all!
U.S. Army VietNam ‘67-68
Just another FTM1 here too. USS Harry E. Yarnell (DLG-17, later CG-17) and USS Hoel (DDG-13). In from 1966 to 1975.
Awesome, guys....God bless all of you...AND your family members who’ve served this country. We’ll never forget.
Thanks for the link, sheana..... a small, yet very thoughtful and appreciative....thing to honor our vets.
US Army 1991-2001
US Army 1964 - 1973. 196th Light Infantry Brigade - West of Da Nang and north.
You are very welcome. Hope a bunch of vets take advantage of the free meals and discounts. Hubby is a Vietnam vet. God bless you all.
Thanks, buddy...and God bless you for your service. You were where...it wasn’t fun.
Present Mostly. USAF 71-77 Meteorologist. Took alot of heat but never a bullet.
USAF here. Just sewed on MSgt (E-7). Wife is a 1Lt. Happy birthday Marine Corp!
US Army, Corps of Engineers, twice.
Six years USAF. Played Taps for some of our last guys out of Viet Nam as Bugle Sgt at Biloxi AFB for almost a year during Ground Radio Maintenance and Repair tech school.
The closest I got to a “Hot Spot” was some of the Discos in Madrid, or maybe when that new kid in Radar Maintenance reversed Hot and Gnd installing a new plug on our shared portable blower motor... (I was still able to bend at the waist when I failed to keep one hand in my pocket, and managed to touch the unit to the metal floor of the portable ATC trailer I was blowing out, welding it there and slagging a 20 Amp breaker.)
God Bless all of our Vets, and their families.
Stationed in: North Dakota, Turkey, New York, Korea (twice) California, Germany and Florida.
Deployed to: Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Curacao, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iraq.
Army infantry, 3rd ID and 2/121 IN, Georgia National Guard. Bosnia 2001.
He calls it 'Loud, Proud, and Well-Endowed'.
(Okay....if you must.) lol
Helluva career.....God bless you for all you did for us.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.