Happy Veterans Day, Nov. 11 2013

[Danzig]

thanks, bigrun and everyone.

happy veterans day from a veteran, to my husband, my son, my active duty son on the ronald reagan, and to soldiers, sailors and airmen everywhere.


it's an especially poignant day for our remaining ww2 vets. at reunions, there are less and less who are there each time. a special thank you, with deep gratitude, to our greatest generation.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

it's an especially poignant day for our remaining ww2 vets. at reunions, there are less and less who are there each time. a special thank you, with deep gratitude, to our greatest generation.

This October, a regional NBC News affiliate caught up with 88-year-old Merwin Cowles who fought as a U.S. Marine during World War II. He had been privileged to see the World War II Memorial in May of this year - pre shenanigans. He may have expressed in words what many other vets have felt: “It’s an experience that I don’t really know how to explain. The tears roll down and your heart will start pumping a little bit to think ‘ok I’ve got buddies here. I don’t see ‘em, but I feel ‘em,’” explained Cowles.

Regarding the Administration’s closure of the memorials, Cowles said, “I think it’s the most dishonorable thing they ever could do for us. Without us veterans working like that there would be no America.”

Enough said. God Bless America’s Veterans.

Let us never forget! The same week Obama spent money closing the memorials to vets with barricades, he opened the National Mall to illegals.

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Let us never forget! The same week Obama spent money closing the memorials to vets with barricades, he opened the National Mall to illegals.

and let us never forget to drag otherwise benign threads into the sewer.

take that obama supporters! and thank you vets for dell's opportunity to score points in his own private little war.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

take that obama supporters! and thank you vets for dell's opportunity to score points in his own private little war.

Regarding the Administration’s closure of the memorials, Cowles said, “I think it’s the most dishonorable thing they ever could do for us. Without us veterans working like that there would be no America.”

I'll back Mr. Cowles on this one. And apologize for the President's priorities.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

thanks, bigrun and everyone.

happy veterans day from a veteran, to my husband, my son, my active duty son on the ronald reagan, and to soldiers, sailors and airmen everywhere.


it's an especially poignant day for our remaining ww2 vets. at reunions, there are less and less who are there each time. a special thank you, with deep gratitude, to our greatest generation.

Family of vets dan, thank you all...Wife, oldest son and me were all USAF..Had 3 uncles in WWII, two in Pacific and one in Germany..thanks to all that have served..Having dinner at Applebees tonite with couple old vet friends..

From the article above, this one always tears me up.

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.

[randallscott35]

Grandpa is 91 this year. Flew missions in the South Pacific.

Dad was drafted within 10 days of his cutoff date age of 25 for Vietnam. Lucky he made it or else the handle would suffer from the lack of me.

[mclem0822]

God Bless our Veterans! Thanks for protecting our Freedom which we enjoy! Happy Veterans Day!

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Grandpa is 91 this year. Flew missions in the South Pacific.WOW

Dad was drafted within 10 days of his cutoff date age of 25 for Vietnam. Lucky he made it or else the handle would suffer from the lack of me.

[bigrun]

Saw this Band of Brothers on eve news...great work from Pink Floyd with these wounded warriors..


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162...d-of-brothers/

[Danzig]

http://news.msn.com/world/hundreds-a...f-wwii-veteran

[bigrun]

Just got this...

http://www.greatamericans.com/video/...r-Roy-Benavide