To All My fellows Vets

[bigmoose]

Gentleman,

To all who served past and present, I wish you a peaceful holiday

To my fellow Infantrymen......RA ALL THE WAY

Good Luck to All

[Dave W]

Thanks to all who made this country great and for your sacrifice.

[Harley]

With all respect and gratitude............

Harley

[sw]

:)Same here, Marty. Don't leave out the USAF!! Thank all of you.

[dave d.]

:)thank's to all that keep this country safe past and present...

[craigf]

Thanks to all of those who have answered the call to keep us free! And to those who never came back, may they never be forgotten or their sacrifice be taken for granted.

[bigmoose]

Steve and Craig,

AMEN

[edge]

Thank you all, we would not be free were it not for those that have sacrificed for this great Country.

edge.

[ozark]

For what little I may have done you are all welcome. I know my many friends who returned and the few that did not would join me in thanking all the folks back home for the support and means of doing our job. I happened to be in Branson a few years ago and noticed an old man wearing a VFW cap. I ask him is he was in world war 2 and he said yes but I was only a truck driver. I quickly let him know that without those trucks bringing supplies and food up to the front everything would have quickly went down hill. I said: "Don't tell me you were only a truck driver. You did the job you were assigned and it was a very important job you did." There is much more to war than shooting an enemy down. As a ground pounder I had to smile at Bigmoose's reference to the Infantry (RA all the way). He meant that he wasn't drafted and was RA (Regular Army). My contribution was mostly training others how to hit their targets before the target did them in. To have been up there in a jet like SW was would have caused me to need my drawers laundred as soon as we touched down. That is awesome movement.

[mike3132]

My father is 85 and a WWII vet. He fought in the South Pacific theater aboard the light cruiser USS Birmingham. Their ship was awarded 12 battle stars and went threw hell! Many men were killed in action including many of my fathers friends. My father often relates to his old war stories and I listen intensely.

Hats off to all the service men and women who served their country so we could be a free nation. Mike

[Jon]

To all those that commented I think it is great. As a VNV I know how I was treated coming home it did more to the returning vets than the war did. I ame so glad to see that people are backing the people that give to make this country what it is today. Yhanks to all that support the armed forces.
Jon

[bigmoose]

Ozark and Mike, are right, a very special thanks to those who make the greatest sacrifice, there is a high price to be paid for freedom.

Winston Churchill said " we sleep soundly in our beds at night, because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm"

God Bless the United States of American and those that serve her.

[sw]

Thank you Marty for starting this. The people in the air do nothing more than those on the ground or on or under the sea. In Viet Nam, I especially appreciated those who were at the firebases, the recon and search and destroy missions, AND THE RESCUE GUYS!!

[jims]

Nice thoughts and comments on our troops. When I enlisted we were called "Red Apples" for our RA status. Since everyone enlists in some form today perhaps that term has less usage.
I often think of my dad and uncles on this day, six brothers all in WWII, three in combat arms. My grandmother often spoke of her worries back then.