This a good salute to all that served. Just a day late seeing it. Later RJD
I had a nice experience on Veteran’s Day. Chimney sweep came and cleaned out the stack. Later on that evening he called and said he was tearing up my check for payment, felt he had to and really wanted me to understand. I protested it was too generous($180) of a gesture, but he insisted. Nicest thing anyone has done for me as a veteran, I am humbled.
We remember always.
I know I’m late, but thank you all for the honor of serving with you.
Lou Luczu, Combat Engineer
US Army Engineer School 1969-71
RVN Enineer Region, Military Region III 1971-72
25th Infantry Division 1972-1975
RIF’d, cause they didn’t need me anymore.
On the lighter side, The Stockton Boys decided to take Special #11 on Veteran’s Day
Headin’ into the tunnel
Red White Blue Collection
View from BC’s Ice Cream Parlor headin’ past the Pixley Waterworks
Our salute to the “Red, White & Blue”.
As some of you here know, in my 33 years as a soldier for another Army, I served under, with, and commanded US military personnel from all three services and USMC, too.
I was honoured and privileged to have done so.
To all my ‘troop’, past and long-passed, G*d bless you all, every one, and thank you.
tac
My thank you to all who served!
US Navy Submarines 1961-1969 TM2(SS)
US Army/ARNG Aviation 1978-1994 Sgt 1st Class
Aircraft Maintenance, Tech Inspector, Aircraft Accident/Incident Inspector, A&P , first in the chow line, well, sometimes!!!
http://home.ptd.net/~n3xge/whoisa.htm
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain 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 ally 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 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 38th 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 that has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other’s 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 three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies 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 that 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.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That’s all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
Two little words that mean a lot, “THANK YOU.”
SP/4 David Hill
Active Duty U.S. Army 1968-74
3rd Armor Division West Germany 1969-1970
C Troop 1/1/ Cavalry RVN 1971-72
Thank you for that David. Very moving. Yesterday, my grandson’s elementary school held a special assembly, honoring us veterans. We were each invited to speak before our grandchild’s class. Then they brought us into the gym for the main assembly. The children performed some songs and the teacher that organized the affair showed a video of various students answering questions about veterans day and veterans. The last portion of the video displayed photos that we provided, of us then and now. I must say, I liked the then photos more than the now photos, LOL. Our state representative spoke very nicely to the kids about patriotism and Veterans Day. It was good to see the same kind of behavior among the children that I remember growing up.
Thank you, David.
Amen!
What Ken said.