Veterans Day

[amm1851]

I guess I was waiting for someone else to start this, but I don't want the day to get past without extending my deepest thanks and appreciation to all of our military veterans, past, present and future, for preserving the freedoms we all enjoy. I hope you all had a great day and enjoyed your much-deserved day of honor. 

[Uncle Russ]

Thank you, John
And thank you from the thousands upon hundreds of thousands of Veterans that never get to read your post.

Wishing our Veterans well, while praying for them, has almost overnight become a political issue.
All to which I say is pure, raw, stinkin, rubbish.

As a Veteran of 23 years, I stand, I pray, and I wish every last one of America's finest the very best!

Heck with this Political Correctness nonsense, an ideology that is nothing less than a divisive tool tearing at the very heart of this Nation.
 

Uncle Russ.

[Bigsmoke]

Russ, my friend,
Y'all just have a way with words that just cuts to the quick and gets it said.
Thank you for your boldness.
I agree 100% with everything you said.
Thank you for your service is almost to a point of it being cliche, but thank you for 23 years of dedicated service anyway.
John

[Ohio Joe]

Thank you, John
And thank you from the thousands upon hundreds of thousands of Veterans that never get to read your post.

Wishing our Veterans well, while praying for them, has almost overnight become a political issue.
All to which I say is pure, raw, stinkin, rubbish.

As a Veteran of 23 years, I stand, I pray, and I wish every last one of America's finest the very best!

Heck with this Political Correctness nonsense, an ideology that is nothing less than a divisive tool tearing at the very heart of this Nation.
 

Uncle Russ.

Same here fellow veterans. Russ said it right! 

[rollingb]

God bless America, and those who served, and are serving today!

[trent/OH]

Saturday I went to the dedication of a new veterans memorial in Springboro Ohio. While there I was honored to meet a WW2 Marine. I almost had to pry out of him that his big fight was at this place called Iwo Jima! He was on a 75 mm pack howitzer crew, and when the ramp went down and they hit the beach, they were STUCK! The gun sank to the axle in that black sand and there they were, stuck on an island with 21,000 Japanese hosts, and a gun stuck in the sand, and it wasn't even pointed inland.

There must have been 10,000 stories begging to be told that day. I'm glad I was able to collect a few, and share a couple.

[Hank in WV]

I'd love to hear more, if ya got em.