The FReeper Foxhole Celebrates Veterans Day - November 11th, 2003

various

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for another tearjerker SCDogPapa.

[SAMWolf]

Hi GailA!

[SAMWolf]

fuel truck with 5000 gallons of JP4

No Thanks! I'll take my chances on the ground far away from flammable objects.

[Do the Dew]

Sorry for the late response.

Yes, my dad served with the Marines. The saying, 'Once a Marine, always a Marine' is very true with my dad. You are correct, he served in Vietnam.

[snippy_about_it]

hubba hubba and yowser! :)

[snippy_about_it]

Good afternoon Gail.

[snippy_about_it]

I wish I could post one as well.

If you have one on your computer we can host it on our server and post it here for you. Send me a freepmail if you'd like help with it.

[Light Speed]

I had the pleasure of being able to visit the USS Missouri when she docked at Astoria on her way to Pearl.

Hi Sam...that must have been a profound moment,..the sheer size of the Famous Lady.

Sad..Great Britian had some smart looking Battleships..the socialists sent them to the chop immediatetly after the war..
I think the last sharp looker...HMS Vanguard made it into the 50's

The Famous Lady

[Alkhin]

God Bless our Veterans!

God Bless us all!

[SAMWolf]

Children view a tattered U.S. flag during a Veterans' Day gathering at the War Memorial in Ispwich, Mass., Tuesday Nov. 11, 2003. The flag flew on a D-Day landing craft at Omaha Beach in 1944. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

At the age of 104, Britain's Arthur Halestrap, right, of the Royal Engineers is the only World War I veteran to attend a ceremony on Armistice day at the Menin gate in Ypres, Belgium to commemmorate the fallen soldiers of WWI, Tuesday Nov.11, 2003. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

U.S. Army troops hold a moment of silence while observing Veterans Day in Baghdad, November 11, 2003. Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Day and Veterans Day, which fall near the anniversary of the armistice signed at the close of the first World War, are observed in many countries to commemorate casualties of warfare. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

Reuben Law, second from the left in the front row, considered the oldest World War I veteran living in Nevada, is shown in this photo from late 1918, while he was serving as an Army Sgt. in France. Law was a dispatcher for a motor truck company who transported injured soldiers from the train to the small village hospital. Law, now 105, lives in Carson City, Nev., with family members and has many memories of the war. (AP Photo/Reuben Law)

World War I veteran Reuben Law, 105, a former mayor of Emily, Minn., tells stories of his days in the Army in France, from his Carson City, Nev., home Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003. Law, 105, credits 'good heart genes' and lifelong outdoor activity for his apparent status as Nevada's last remaining veteran of World War I. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

US First Lady Laura Bush bows her head in prayer during a ceremony with President George W. Bush to commemorate Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery(AFP/Tim Sloan)

US President George W. Bush arranges the ribbons after placing a wreath at The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier to commemorate Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia(AFP/Tim Sloan)

[Conspiracy Guy]

Amen.

[SAMWolf]

[Darksheare]

Hated the -16.
Wished there was something slightly more accurate, slightly shorter and easier to use in the brush, and somewhat heavier in the 'punch' department.
(The holy grail of weaponry of course.)

But, had to make due with the 16 and it's somewhat loose fit between upper and lower halves...

[SAMWolf]

I was able to stand on the spot where the Surrender documents where signed. It sent a shiver down my spine.

[international american]

Thanks for the great picture
Best, IA

[SAMWolf]

I liked the M-14, but finally got used to the M-16 by the time I joined the Guard.

[Light Speed]

If Emperor Clintonius had been on the ball..and used the power available to him....maybe Sept 11th need not have occured.

Sending Madeline Albright around obviously wasn't **scarry enough..

Peace thru Power.

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome IA. Thanks for stopping by today.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for these pictures SAM.

[SAMWolf]

Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, left, gives a medal to Polish soldiers for their work in Iraq during his visit at the Camp Babylon Base, some 80 miles south of Baghdad, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003. Miller marked his country's 85th Independence Day by telling Polish troops Tuesday that they were in Iraq 'to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people'. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Members of the Polish elite commando team GROM arrive on the beach during an exercise, on the Baltic Sea coast, October 22, 2003. The elite GROM unit was Poland's only active participant during operations for the war in Iraq. Under U.S. command, a GROM unit captured one platform with a second rig taken by U.S. Navy SEALs. Months before a Polish-led international force took control of a zone in postwar Iraq in September, GROM cleared vessels from the port of Umm Qasr and helped secure a dam near Baghdad. Now GROM troops are helping the hunt for Saddam, Poland's top general, Gen. Czeslaw Piatas, revealed in unexpectedly candid comments. REUTERS/Peter Andrews/FEATURE/POLAND-COMMANDOS

Polish soldiers parade outside the entrance of the Camp Babylon Base, some 80 miles south of Baghdad, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003.

Polish soldiers talk in front of a decorated arch during the visit of Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller at the Camp Babylon Base, some 80 miles south of Baghdad, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003.