happy vets day.. 11/12/07

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

here is our local activitys..

http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gal...rams=Itemnr=23

[ddthetide]

THANK YOU !!! to ALL the vets and active servicemen and women around the world !!

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

THANK YOU !!! to ALL the vets and active servicemen and women around the world !!

Perfectly said.

God Bless all the vets and active soilders, Thank you!

[Nascar1966]

From a 20 year retired Navy Vet, I would like to thank each one of you personnally for the Veterans Day wishes. Its refreshing to see support for vets and troops at this great website.

[GPK]

Thanks to all and God Bless.

[ALostTexan]

Thanks to all Vets, and hopefully everyone will take a moment to appreciate the freedoms that these men and women have fought and died for.

[Storm Cadet]

Thanks to all the Vets today!

[otisotisotis]

thank you to all vets on here and everywhere.

Country, Honor and Valor are your decree.
One nation under God is your banner
You: who so valiantly served, fought
and died for me are not forgotten.
My gratitude to you is unwavering.

You were like the lamb led to slaughter.
Without a word you sacrificed yourself for:
Life, Liberty and Justice for all.
With your blood you helped purchase
freedom for your fellow man.
Generations following behind you who
will never know your name say "Thank You".

God, who knew you before the foundations
of the earth were laid, says
"Soldier, Job Well Done".
What an honor and privilege it would be
for me to lay a wreath on your tomb,
representing my respect and the respect
of our country.

With all my heart I say "Thank You".
May God continue to bless you
and God bless America.

by Allie O'Brien, age 12

[GPK]

touching....

thanks for posting that P

[Mortimer]

Evene though you are a SECKY/ALYBAMMER fan....you can be my water brother anytime.


The finest work I have seen on this board.







As I know we all know...too often we do forget them.

[pmacdaddy]

We certainly owe all our veterans a debt of gratitude.

Thank You!

[Mortimer]

I thought this was good:





"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
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
Listed as KIA February 7, 1978

[Mortimer]

http://www.historyguy.com/american_war_casualties.html


If you scroll down it shows the number of US soldiers killed by war.


I counted about 1,340,OOO.






A good time for me to leave and stop being an idiot.

I owe them more .






Thanks to those who posted here.

[azerica]

As an Army vet, I thank you all for remembering. Now, as a civilian, I thank each and every brother, sister, and animal that has served and is serving in the armed forces. Bless you all...

[Danzig]

my husband and i thank you. both navy vets, and our oldest has been active duty two years.
thanks to all of our servicemen and -women, without you none of this country would be possible! from those who served under george washington, to those serving today, a tremendous debt is owed to you.
thank you.

[mclem10011]

Originally Posted by Storm Cadet

Thanks to all the Vets today!

Great BANNER! God Bless all the troops, past and present! My late father was a veteran, remembering him and all the ones who make it possible for us to have freedom!

[ninetoone]

My grandfather was one of the survivors of the Bataan Death March & he passed away earlier this year. Not too many of those boys left...RIP. Thanks to all for their service.

[bigrun]

Day late but this is a great piece....Had a nice dinner at the Golden Corral last nite, they have a vet's dinner every year....

What Is a Vet?

Sunday, Nov 11, 2007 - 12:04 AM

War makes strange giant creatures out of the little routine men who inhabit the Earth. --WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle.

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg -- or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's alloy forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the Nebraska farmer who worries every year that this time the bank really will foreclose.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 39th Parallel.

She -- or he -- is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another -- or didn't come back at all.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who never has seen combat -- but who has saved countless lives by turning slouchy no-'counts into soldiers, and teaching them to watch each others' backs.

He is the parade-riding legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the anonymous hero in the Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the other anonymous heroes whose valor died unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket -- palsied now and aggravatingly slow -- who helped liberate a Nazi death camp, and who wishes all day long his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being -- a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known. --This editorial first was published in 1995 and has appeared annually since 1999.

[horseofcourse]

thanks everyone for the kind words...and many more thanks to those still doing what I stopped doing quite a while ago. It is a day well worth recognizing once a year...much more so than the BCS or BC.