A FreeRepublic Tribute to Our Veterans and Current Military Members

A Forum Community Effort | 11/11/2002 | DoughtyOne

[DoughtyOne]

A Tribute to Our Veterans and Those Who Have
Paid the Ultimate Price to Preserve
Our Nation and Our Ideals
 

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Arlington Cemetary

This year's DoD Poster Honoring Veterans

      
A Few of the DoD's Past Posters Honoring Veterans

President Bush - Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the USofA

   
President Bush and United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

The President of the United States George Bush (right) and
his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (left)

An artwork by Roberto Prada
Depicting SoD Rumsfled

General Richard B Meyer
Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff
General Meyer is the 15th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
 

      
   

The Patches of the Major Departments of Defense and the Coast Guard

The Pentagon - The Headquarters of the Department of Defense for the United States of America
 

Memorials

 

To Our Veterans and Current Members of Our Armed Forces
Thank You for Your Service to Our Nation

I and Other Members of this Forum Salute You!

Here's Our Best Wishes for a Happy Veterans Day for You.

 

[DoughtyOne]

I felt that our veterans and current members of the military deserved a thread today. I hope that folks will join me in wishing them well on this thread.

[JoJo Gunn]

I am so grateful beyond words, (and feel humbled), to all who have served.

[SouthernHawk]

Thank You for the thread. It really does mean a lot to a retired Navy Chief with twenty years of service.

[kattracks]

Eulogy for a Veteran

Do not stand at my grave and weep.

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the Gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the mornings hush,

I am the swift uplifting rush

of quiet birds in circled flight,

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there, I did not die.

Author Unknown

[InvisibleChurch]

Dear Vets, Thank you, thank you, thank you and may God bless you all.

[kattracks]

To all our Vets, thank you and God Bless You.

[RightOnline]

This is a thread from three years ago that I think you'd like to see:

Salute to FReeper Veterans; Check in!

Here is its follow-on from two years ago (exactly one year after the first one):

Salute to FReeper Veterans; Check in!: THREAD #2

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for dropping in. I'm glad you've found a place that appreciates your years of service. All the best to you.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the great poem.

[DoughtyOne]

Hey thanks. We can enjoy several threads today. I appreciate the links.

[ThinkingMan]

Your artwork has brought a tear to the eye of this vet. I would like to thank my father for his service in Vietnam and my Grandfather for his service in WWII. Neither will claim to be a hero, but both of them are.

Hopefully my 4 sons will be the first in four generations to serve in a peacetime military when their time comes.

[PGalt]

Thanks to all veterans.

[Tango Whiskey Papa]

"Bravo Zulu"

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.

And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind."

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
January 1970 Dak To, Vietnam
Listed as KIA February 7, 1978

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for your comments. Thanks to you and your family for the years of service. Sounds like you folks have been picking up the slack for those of us who didn't serve. It is appreciated.

[corlorde]

August 23 1987 to Sept 6 2000 1-506INF, 1/327 INF, 3/327INF 1/501PIR, NCOA Academy Instructor, 1/12 INF 5/20INF.

To anyone has served or who has children serving, thank you!!

[michwm]

USAF
1976-1979 379th Security Police Squadron Wurtsmith AFB
1979-1980 TUSLOG Det. 190-1 SPS Incirlik Turkey.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for your contribution to the thread. If you are interested in an online memorial to your loved one, I will develop such a site. I think it would be an excellent place for people on FreeRepublic to visit to read about the experiences of those who paid the ultimate price for us. Many could learn from reading those stories.

[tictoc]

Thank you, veterans.

Thank you, active members of the armed forces.

I know how much I and everyone else in the free world owe you, and I am grateful.

[earonthief]

Thank You Sir.
This day is in rememberance of our veterans tis true, but as a vet I feel the need to thank our loved one's and most especially our country. You are the reason we are, and why we will be.

THANK YOU

1975-1995 SSGT USMC (Ret)

[OldFriend]

A heartfelt thank you to all who served and their families.