Happy Veterans Day
 

to all vets for having the balls most of us don't. I know Hooves and Danzig are among them and I'm sure there are more DTers but THANK YOU!

Have a great day!

Both my dad, grandfather, and uncle all served....Nothing more honorable. Thanks to all of them.

Amen to that!

Thank you Veterans!

Note the time of your post (11:11). Pretty cool. Was it planned? I missed it by 1 minute.

agreed... thanks to all the Veterans!

Thank you to all the veterans!

We as a nation of people who enjoy their freedom owe so much to those who have protected our freedom while putting themselves in harmsway and risking their own lives. While we will never be able to repay them, we can at least pay them tribute and use this day to say Thank You!

Thank You to all the brave men and women who have served our country.

What is a vet...
 

Many gave some and some gave all..

I've posted this for past few years at another forum...It is published every vet day in the Richmond-Times Dispatch....If you can keep a dry eye reading it, good luck....


What Is a Vet?



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.
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Thank you guys and girls.

Without you ... dogs and cats who are very sick and need surgery would have no hope in a lot of cases.

I posted on craigslist that I would pick any veteran up and drive them to Applebee's if they would give me their food.

This is why chix dig you

well said. Thanks to all Vets, past, present and future.

thanks guys. spent the evening with my spouse and fellow vet, as well as my oldest son. he got his honorable discharge about two months ago, and has just gotten a job about three hours from us in Longview, Tx. and now my youngest may well be going....he's hoping to get into the naval academy, so wish him luck.