Veteran's Day

[GOS_Queen]

I just wanted to say "thank you" to all the past, present and future Veteran's!


:cheers:

[Jacqui]

Thank You !!

[Jubilee]

Indeed.. THANK YOU!!!

[For-Life]

thank you (and to all of you being remembered on Remembrance Day too).

[Johns]

You're welcome!:cheers:

[THE MEB]

Thank you for thinking of us!

[Dave Nelson]

Yes, I laughed. The old coot was limping, used a cane, and was obviously off his rocker. He swung his cane around, talked to himself, and made a scene. He acted so crazy, I though it was really funny, so I laughed at his antics, until a passerby, a young man stopped and told me to stop laughing, and that I didn't understand why the old fellow was acting the way he did, and if I understood, I'd be crying, rather than laughing.
Even at 7 years of age, I knew the old fellow was a WW 1 veteran, but I was unable to equate his limping and behavior with the wounds he had received during that war. The sheer horror of what that man saw, and did, and experienced was lost to a 7 year old, but I stopped laughing, even if only because of the reprimand I rightfully received from a stranger.
A documentary I saw during remembrance day yesterday reminded me that that war is, even now, passing into history, as the last surviving combat veterans worldwide can be counted on one hand, and soon they will be gone. No more generations will be able to hear, first hand, of the horrors of that war, and soon it will be as remote in history as the American civil war is to my generation. At 50, I still have no more inkling about war than I did when I was 7, but and at least now I recognize, more than ever, of the enormous sacrafice that soldier made, and the price he paid all the rest of his life, but at least I have a passing stranger to thank for the stern lecture, and his assertion that someday, when I was old enough to understand, I would be ashamed for having laughed. He was right.

[Fezz]

Yes, I laughed. The old coot was limping, used a cane, and was obviously off his rocker. He swung his cane around, talked to himself, and made a scene. He acted so crazy, I though it was really funny, so I laughed at his antics, until a passerby, a young man stopped and told me to stop laughing, and that I didn't understand why the old fellow was acting the way he did, and if I understood, I'd be crying, rather than laughing.
Even at 7 years of age, I knew the old fellow was a WW 1 veteran, but I was unable to equate his limping and behavior with the wounds he had received during that war. The sheer horror of what that man saw, and did, and experienced was lost to a 7 year old, but I stopped laughing, even if only because of the reprimand I rightfully received from a stranger.
A documentary I saw during remembrance day yesterday reminded me that that war is, even now, passing into history, as the last surviving combat veterans worldwide can be counted on one hand, and soon they will be gone. No more generations will be able to hear, first hand, of the horrors of that war, and soon it will be as remote in history as the American civil war is to my generation. At 50, I still have no more inkling about war than I did when I was 7, but and at least now I recognize, more than ever, of the enormous sacrafice that soldier made, and the price he paid all the rest of his life, but at least I have a passing stranger to thank for the stern lecture, and his assertion that someday, when I was old enough to understand, I would be ashamed for having laughed. He was right.

Awesome! Thank you for sharing. And thanks to all who have sacrificed so much so that I may sleep, drink, and be merry.

:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

[obxeyeguy]

Freedom Is Not Free And Is Paid For By Our Military.





stolen from somewhere, I just don't recall who or where.

[Jacqui]

Three :cheers::cheers::cheers: for my fellow vets.

Jacqui
1st. Lt.
Ist. Marine Div.