Thank you for your service.
Veterans Day 11/11/2016
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Thank you for your service.
farmerfischer
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Thanks Grandpa ( ww11 Japan unknown) thanks Dad ( Nam, navy still kicking and flicking)
Thanks Dad.
Korea & Vietnam
And another 20 with a different govt org for a cool double dip for 40 + years.
Korea & Vietnam
And another 20 with a different govt org for a cool double dip for 40 + years.
It may sound corny, but the thanks makes up for some of the extreme (compared to a civilian salary) financial sacrifice that has been made by many service members over many years.
We didn't do it for the money.
We didn't do it for the money.
tyler.durden
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ttystikk
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No, but increasingly you're doing it for Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Electric's money.
As a fellow American citizen, I'm not okay with the blood of our servicemen being spilled in the name of war profiteering.
The war with the least casualties is the one that's never fought.
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BarnBuster
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The thanks are for the sacrifices of the soldier not the venal political motivation of the war machine. Soldiers are still bleeding and dying in exactly the same way they did since man first picked up a stick to stand in front of his family saying, "No harm will come to them tonight."
And then again the various military branches of this country do far more than just go overseas to fight meaningless (to some) wars.
USAF
Husband, Uncle Joe, Uncle Mac and my dad, thank you
ttystikk
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I'm ALL FOR using our military assets for humanitarian missions! Best thing we can do with an aircraft carrier is air drop supplies to disaster victims! Doing such things also makes us lots of friends, unlike drone strikes.
You'll notice I never said we didn't need our military. Let's just make damned sure that we only use them when we must, not merely when we can.
I think that those who would stand on the floor of the House and Senate and tell us to send troops to this or that hot spot would be expected to take up arms and lead them into the fight. We'd have a lot fewer wars that way- and those we must fight would not be ignored.
I believe you and I would get along famously IRL.
tangerinegreen555
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This was my dad's discharge uniform from 1945. He signed up a few days after Pearl Harbor.
I found this in the pockets today. I had never checked them before. He also gave me several medals to play with when I was a little kid. Long gone, I wish he hadn't done that now. Loved it back then though.
Also found this. I was from a memorial service from 1949 for a local friend of Dad's who died on March 12, 1944 overseas.
Dad was in the Army. He was in the south Pacific theater and carried this lighter with him through the war. I posted it once before, but today it is worthy of reposting. Dad traveled and/or fought through Australia, the Phillipines, New Guinea, Goodenough Is., Leyte, Mindoro and Luzon.
Dad was a tick under 6' tall and 185 lbs. most of his life. He was discharged weighing 137 lbs. 4 years of war and a bout with malaria will do that. He didn't like to talk about it much, but would tell me stories of the horror of war.
He once told me of a bitter 48 hour battle against Japanese ground troops. The Allies pounded a heavily dug in strategic Japanese position. He said they literally shelled that position for 2 days without sleep. The guys were given what he called, 'pep pills' to stay awake. After return fire ceased for several hours a monsoon hit. It caused flash flooding and then...dead Japanese bodies started floating and were washed over a hill like a waterfall by the flood. It was at that point they knew they won the battle, 2 days after it started.
His favorite stories were of meeting friends from home half way around the globe in Australia where the troops got occasional R&R. He ran into over a dozen different local friends over there and always loved that.
Dad lived from 1918 to 2004.
I found this in the pockets today. I had never checked them before. He also gave me several medals to play with when I was a little kid. Long gone, I wish he hadn't done that now. Loved it back then though.
Also found this. I was from a memorial service from 1949 for a local friend of Dad's who died on March 12, 1944 overseas.
Dad was in the Army. He was in the south Pacific theater and carried this lighter with him through the war. I posted it once before, but today it is worthy of reposting. Dad traveled and/or fought through Australia, the Phillipines, New Guinea, Goodenough Is., Leyte, Mindoro and Luzon.
Dad was a tick under 6' tall and 185 lbs. most of his life. He was discharged weighing 137 lbs. 4 years of war and a bout with malaria will do that. He didn't like to talk about it much, but would tell me stories of the horror of war.
He once told me of a bitter 48 hour battle against Japanese ground troops. The Allies pounded a heavily dug in strategic Japanese position. He said they literally shelled that position for 2 days without sleep. The guys were given what he called, 'pep pills' to stay awake. After return fire ceased for several hours a monsoon hit. It caused flash flooding and then...dead Japanese bodies started floating and were washed over a hill like a waterfall by the flood. It was at that point they knew they won the battle, 2 days after it started.
His favorite stories were of meeting friends from home half way around the globe in Australia where the troops got occasional R&R. He ran into over a dozen different local friends over there and always loved that.
Dad lived from 1918 to 2004.
Very touching Tangerine, thank you for sharing that. My Uncle Tony was USMC in New Guinea I wonder if they ever crossed paths. I had his machete for the longest time.
tangerinegreen555
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I have Dad's machete too! Forgot about that, I'll shoot a pic sometime.
Thanks for reminding me
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