Veterans Day

[Foxrac]

Thank you to all veterans for serve our country.

 

[Reba]

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Thank you for making this thread.

I also thank our veterans, prior service and currently serving.

Foxrac, I'm thankful for your dad's service. What years did he serve?

 

[Foxrac]

Wirelessly posted (BB Curve 9300)

Thank you for making this thread.

I also thank our veterans, prior service and currently serving.

Foxrac, I'm thankful for your dad's service. What years did he serve?

1972 to 1993

 

[Foxrac]

Sandy's aftereffects continue as Veterans' Day Parade kicks off - CNN.com

I feel bad for northerners who have tough time with stupid storm.

 

[Foxrac]

Google Veterans Day

 

[Reba]

1972 to 1993

Ah, Vietnam and Cold War eras. Almost the same years as I did (1970-1995). We must be about the same age.

 

[Reba]

Our church prayed thanks for the veterans today at 11:00 a.m. on 11/11, just like people used to do for the original Armistice Day celebration.

 

[Steinhauer]

Foxrac for this thread.

I would also like to say thank you to all the veterans that have served.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jm06HFZ2o]Steve Earle - Warrior (with lyrics) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Steinhauer]

A friend since high school:

My great great grandfather William Henry Razor

My Uncle's WWII scrapbook:

My uncle Larry:

One of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers receives medal - The Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott, Arizona

My paternal grandmother's little brother (whom I heard about my whole life):

Robert Virgil Cunningham Honolulu HI National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
My cousin William Radtke:

Obviously, this picture was taken way before last Friday.

 

[caz12]

great thread.....i put flowers on our vets graves every year i look at those graves see 19yrs olds,i think you gone in that grave as a son when you should be a grandad,,,in helmand last week young soldier killed, he was not by taliband but one afgani that on our side..i watch battalian of soldiers back from afganistan having eggs and rubbish thrown at them by local young moslem men yesterday memorial day soldiers who lay down lives so thses people have the right to spit at them...you have to wonder why we there

 

[sonocativo]

My son and I went to visit family a little while back

 

[Rio]

Wirelessly posted

Thank you Reba for serving and protecting our country!

 

[Reba]

TCS was able to attend a veterans appreciation day at our church's school today. He said it was a very good program that was put on by the elementary students. At the end, they had all the veterans line up, and the students passed by and shook hands with each one, and saying, "thank you for your service." The oldest veteran was from WWII, and he was in a wheelchair. Some of the other veterans wore their uniforms.

Many of the schools in our area had special programs for the veterans today. Yesterday and today were parades and ceremonies.

 

[Moondancer]

Foxrac for this thread.

I would also like to say thank you to all the veterans that have served.

Steve Earle - Warrior (with lyrics) - YouTube

wow its a very powerful video to view. i have some who are fighter that i knew are killed except my cousin made it.

 

[Foxrac]

Ah, Vietnam and Cold War eras. Almost the same years as I did (1970-1995). We must be about the same age.

Yup and Gulf War too, my father went to South Korea, Japan and Philippine during military career.

My father's last base, prior to retirement - Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, so I went there last year with my parent. It is nice and big base.