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.

 

[commish]

USAF 1981-Present

1981-1985 AF Technical Applications Center Patrick AFB, FL
1986-1989 9th Strategic Recon Wing Beale AFB, CA
1989-1992 86th Communications Group Ramstein AB, GE
1992-1998 Defense Information Systems Agency Maxwell-Gunter AFB, AL
1998-present Standard Systems Group Maxwell-Gunter AFB, AL

[OldFriend]

Seems like a family of heroes to me! THANK YOU and GODSPEED

[commish]

USAF 1981-Present

1981-1985 AF Technical Applications Center Patrick AFB, FL
1986-1989 9th Strategic Recon Wing Beale AFB, CA
1989-1992 86th Communications Group Ramstein AB, GE
1992-1998 Defense Information Systems Agency Maxwell-Gunter AFB, AL
1998-present Standard Systems Group Maxwell-Gunter AFB, AL

[The Mayor]

GOD Bless our Vets!

Army 76-79

[Jim Ralls]

This veteran salutes you and all who served. I would like to also salute my grandfather; Captain Thomas J Whalen USMC, KIA France April 1918; and my father; Colonel Stanley M Whalen, USAF Retired.

Thanks to all again

Lt Colonel Thomas J Whalen
USAF Retired

[ladtx]

This is a post I usually put on the "FR's Finest" thread but it deserves posting here today also.

In memory of my fellow Vietnam helicopter pilots who were killed in that war the following were lost on NOV 11. Todays losses are especially poignant on since they fell on Veterans Day. God bless them all.

1966 MAJ William F. Callinan -- 170 AHC 52 CAB, Age 36, Bangor, Maine
1966 CPT Milton F. Smith -- 170 AHC 52 CAB, Age 25, Dania, Florida
1966 CPT John J. Livingston -- 117 AHC, Age 26, Cedar Hill, Missouri
1966 WO1 Terrence M. Rooney -- 117 AHC, Age 22, Denver, Colorado
1966 CPT Walter R. Speare III -- 119 AHC, Age 24, Bedford, Oregon
1966 1LT Dee W. Stone Jr. -- 119 AHC, Age 23, Forest Hill, New York

In memory of WO1 Terrence M. Rooney -- 117 AHC: KIA, South Vietnam.
Always smiling
Terry was one of our newest pilots at the Dragon Flight, 55th. Avn. Co., Yoido Island, K-16 Korea. I remember him as always smiling and saw him off in a taxi as he departed the 55th. for a leave before his deployment to Vietnam. I will always remember him. His smiling face looking back from the taxi as he departed will always remain in my memory. Jesse Shannon -- Friend in the 55th Avn Co Korea

Unit patch of the 117 Assault Helicopter Company "Warlords".

A pair of 117th AHC "Annies"

IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLADE

SCOUTS OUT!

[big'ol_freeper]

Hooah!! A tribute to all who serve the cause of liberty: Freedom

[madfly]

A big thank you to the Veterans and all active military members who serve our nation.

[Knightsofswing]

USMC
1980-1984 & 1996-1999
Twentypalms Ca.
0811,0151,0121
Yuma, Az.
7051, and all sorts of fire fighting sub parts.

[ladtx]

A Veterans Day tribute to Army Aviation.

I AM ARMY AVIATION

My Olive green chest has donned a host of great names: Kelly, Rosbeck, Dempsey, Holloway and a multitude of others that have etched my worn and weary smile on history`s mirror.

From a humble beginning, I have climbed to the summit. I have seen my family mature in the hottest of cold wars and have mixed my blood, sweat and tears with the brackish paddies of Nam Can and the crytal blue of Dong Ha.

Thus, I have paid the price of involvement, earned my badge of courage and come of age. On my durable wing I have leisurely soared through the thin humid skies over Ia Drang and my rotor wash has uncovered" Charlie" in the mangroves of Ca Mau.

From Soc Trang, Blackhorse,and LANE, I have flown and have sent my tracers slicing through the Asian dusk and dawn....stabbing at the elusive shadows that menace freedom. My rockets have given relief to my brothers-in-arms and brought smoke, flames and death to our enemies.

With keen vision and through my ingenuity I have found my enemy....the tyrant, the oppressor, who would deny his fellow man`s rights. I have guided the awesome terror of my cousins` shells to fix the fleeting, faceless guerilla.

On my back the Queen of Battle showed the fury of her long rifle. Together, through swamp and jungle, we have pursued, engaged and won.

The battle for democracy will go on until free men everywhere have won the age old conflict with forces of oppression, the shadows of darkness, the face of hate.

Whether at home or on foreign shores, I will be there....keeping my faith in God and Country....BECAUSE...........I AM ARMY AVIATION!

This was written in 1970 by Major Larry E. Joyce, Infantry, U.S. Army

[wita]

Thanks! For this thread. Two Grandfathers, WW1, WWII; father, and father-in-law, WWII, Korea; me, Vietnam, Cold-War. It is probably tacky to thank yourself. I only mention it, because despite the passage of time, I am sure as I write this, that living veterans, who "took the oath", would still, even at an advanced age, ANSWER THE CALL to serve the greatest country on the face of the earth, the only country capable of preserving the freedom and liberty that our founding fathers, and millions more have given their last full measure to preserve.

[lodwick]

bttt

[right wing]

Great post! It's an honor to thank all of our Veterans.

[Amelia]

Thanks for posting this thread, DO.

Many thanks and much appreciation to our Veterans!

[CholeraJoe]

Happy Veterans' Day you old Tanker Toad!

[estrogen]

In memory of my father who was killed in Korea

Captain Jack Knight

319th Fighter Interceptor (We fight at night) KIA 7-08-53 May he RIP

[leadpenny]

Thanks for your posts at 26 and 30. Although 11 Nov 66 was months before I joined up with the 119th at Camp Holloway in Pleiku, I can visualize what it must have been like after the loss of a Bucaneer crew from the 170th and an Aligator crew from the 119th on the same day. Those two units were next door neighbors on the south side of the runway and everyone knew each other.

WORWAC 66-11

From a poem by World War I poet, Lawrence Binyon:

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them...nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them!

[SwinneySwitch]

Thanks Veterans! God bless you, and the USA!

[ladtx]

11 Nov 66 was a bad day for Army Aviation. No other aviators were lost on Nov 11th for any of the other years of the war.

WORWAC 69-23

336th AHC "Warriors" -- Soc Trang AAF