Happy veterans day

[Grizzly]

Happy Veterans Day to all who have severed and to all who are severing.



george

 

[Tractorat]

I was about to say the same to you. However, it occurred to me that "happy" is the wrong word to use here. It is the "official" day when we reflect on our shared experience, and our buddies.

Rather than return the "happy", please allow me to just hold you and everyone else (and that includes the two opposites HBarlow and CF, both who no longer visit this site) in high esteem.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Grizz!!



Ill take the Happy Part of the statement!!!! Most of the Family and I went to the VA Hospital today and had an old favorite of mine SOS for breakfast, We sat around and talked Military and laughed at the predicament that all of us are in because of our Service. Before we left the Cafeteria in the Hospital Vets from many campaigns were all hugging and having a good time. We that have served know the brotherhood that exists, the ones left with scares are reminded every second of every day of the same brotherhood, the family's of the fallen, let it be known that they are in good company in a brotherhood that thanks them and their family's for the ultimate Sacrifice and Service to their Family and Country so the rest can celebrate such days in the future.



BIG and Family

 

[Tractorat]

Well, you make a good point BIG

 

[Grizzly]

Grizz!!

Ill take the Happy Part of the statement!!!! Most of the Family and I went to the VA Hospital today and had an old favorite of mine SOS for breakfast, We sat around and talked Military and laughed at the predicament that all of us are in because of our Service. Before we left the Cafeteria in the Hospital Vets from many campaigns were all hugging and having a good time. We that have served know the brotherhood that exists, the ones left with scares are reminded every second of every day of the same brotherhood, the family's of the fallen, let it be known that they are in good company in a brotherhood that thanks them and their family's for the ultimate Sacrifice and Service to their Family and Country so the rest can celebrate such days in the future.

BIG and Family

BIG, I'm standing at attention saluting you. Wishing you and family a Happy Holiday.

Tractorat, I don't know if you served in the military, but if you did, I salute you too.

grizz (george)

 

[Tractorat]

US Marine Corps
vietnam most of 1968 and part of 69

 

[Grizzly]

US Marine Corps
vietnam most of 1968 and part of 69

I was stationed in Okinawa at the same time for 18 months, but I never went to Vietnam.

 

[PBJ2500CTD]

An enormous and humble Thank You to those who have served, and are serving, and an especially heartfelt and emotional rememberance to all who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom! I salute you. God Bless!

 

[GHarman]

I Thank You ALL! Past and Present , for Your Service.
Did my part, too! I was young and dumb but GOD had a Plan specifically for me!
For everyone who has served, they will never be the same!
Their world view has been skewed by the awful reality of war.
I was Honored to know Men who have served, from WW-1 through the Present.
It is with a Greatfull Heart that I am able to be named among them!
We, Band of Brothers and Sisters!
GregH

 

[Tractorat]

GHarmon

As always, you are right on. But I gotcha beat My great grandfather on my mothers fathers side served in cuba in the Spanish American war. He died in 1969. I bet DJW knew some vets that went back farther than that.

 

[moparguy]

Thank You to All Who Served. I didn't have the "Honor" of visiting Vietnam in 1970, but did enjoy training (and Tiger Land) in Fort Polk Louisiana. A standing Salute to all responsible for the Freedom we enjoy today!

 

[GHarman]

Tractorat,

Yep, ya got me!Oo.

GregH

 

[crispyboy]

Yes I would also like to add thanks for all those who have served, I am GRATEFUL!

I like history so during dinner last night I was explaining the mission of the Doolittle Raiders to my wife. I got out the Ipad and looked up the last toast they had this past weekend at Wright Pat Air Force Base. It was an event to bring tears to your eyes. We watched the whole event and then we found the movie "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" to top off the evening.
It continues to make me darn angry when I see our current administration laying a wreath at the WWII memorial when just a few weeks ago they closed it to suit their political purposes... ... .

 

[DJW]

Tractorat,
the oldest family member I knew that fought in a war was my father, he was a machine gunner in the British Army during WW1. He told me that the Infantry hated the machine gunners, as they attracted German artillery fire, especially when more units of machine gunners arrived at the front lines, as that meant they would soon be going over the top.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I can say without a doubt that still held true in the little skirmish that I participated in, only the other side in our instance didn't have artillery, they used mortar's and RPG's and what seemed like a never ending supply of men that had no value in their life. Such a waste

 

[Tractorat]

the oldest family member I knew that fought in a war was my father, he was a machine gunner in the British Army during WW1. He told me that the Infantry hated the machine gunners, as they attracted German artillery fire, especially when more units of machine gunners arrived at the front lines, as that meant they would soon be going over the top.

DJW
I never talked with anyone who actually served in WWI about the war. The couple of old soldiers I knew were getting on in years when I knew them, and they didnt really talk with me much.

My personal experience in vietnam was that you wanted to stay away from the guy with the prc "prick"25 on his back. He tended to be a target. In my experience, the m-60 machine gunner had the firepower to keep bad guys at bay.

 

[DJW]

Tractorat, at work in the UK it was hard not to be working with someone who had not fought in WW1, every family you knew had lost at least one member fighting in WW1, some all their brothers plus the father, my mother lost a brother, no one in the UK wanted another War, and in any case Britain had no resources to fight one. France never intended to be the site of another World War fought on her soil, hence the outcome for France.

Its quite a different generation since WW1 and WW2, I never meet anyone who served in those Wars suffered from mental affects from their experiences, most had been wounded, and a few PoWs, and the PoWs were mainly all treated badly by the Italians, Germans and Japs. It was, 'Just Grin and Bear it', and 'Carry-On'.