Thank you for your service and remember the freedom you have preserved. We will likely be fighting for it here before long.
you may be called on soon to defend us against our "enemies...domestic."
(Thanks for letting us know and for your sacrifice while your son was in Iraq).
Hello, and welcome, Hollywoodusmc!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your courage and service for the USA and for me and mine!
God bless you and keep you and help you to continue the great “battle” to defend this nation and its Constitution (here at FR and however you are called to do so now that you are home.)
Thank you for your service and remember the freedom you have preserved. We will likely be fighting for it here before long.
Thank you for your service.
You do a fantastic job.
Grateful thanks from an European.
Welcome home, welcome here and thank you, hollywoodusmc.
Thank you for raising a great son and American citizen, optiguy. Congratulations on a job well done.
Thank You for your great service marine!
Thank you for your service, hollywoodusmc!!
Welcome to FR too!
Thank you! We are proud of you and we are happy you’re home. Well done son!!!
Welcome home! Thanks to you and all your buddies for all you have done!
Welcome to FR
Welcome home, God bless, and thanks SO much for your service.
Welcome home, God bless, and thanks SO much for your service.
Welcome to FreeRepublic, and thank you for your service.
Hello young man! Welcome back home and thank you for your service to our great nation!
I salute you!
MAJ, USA(Ret)
I salute you! Welcome and thanks for your service!
Tell him that because of people like him nully is no longer proud to be an American.
I have seen what they have done.
They utterly destroyed one of the world’s largest and best trained standing armies in a matter of weeks. OK, that’s what we expect from them.
What impressed me was how well they comported themselves after the military victory.
Everything from restoring some semblance of order, building schools, hospitals, sewage and water systems, inculcating a population with no history of freedom with some concept of a constitutional democracy.
Doing all this while dead-enders are doing their dead level best to destroy them and everything they stand for.
Doing this in 120° weather, while not having so much as a sip of water in honor of the local religious customs during ramadan.
Doing it with a smile for the children, a kind word for the women, and respect for the men.
No, nully is no longer proud to be an American.
nully is now deeply and profoundly humbled to be an American, and to be able to count himself as a countryman of such men and women.
Thank God for your safe return. May your spirir know the peace you fought so valiantly for. And God bless Anerica. Without men like you, she would have been gone long ago.
Welcome on board. It is always good to get the insight of someone who has actually had his boots on ground. The bumper sticker on my car says..If you haven’t been to Iraq or Afghanistan THEN SHUT UP ABOUT IT! The bumper sticker came from my son who is on his third deployment.
God bless you and thank you for your service.
Welcome Home and Thank You!
Dave
CW3, Retired Army
Thanks for protecting my freedom and my country from those that wish to kill me and do our county harm.