THANK YOU! To you and your famlies...

Proud to have served.  And my thanks also to all the others.

37th ENG C ABN Ft Bragg

am also very proud to have served. and a special thanx to "all" those who have served, and especially those who've made the ultimate sacrifice. USN here...gulf war and operation iraqi freedom.

to those presently serving and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Words can hardly express my appreciation and pride.

Any providers who are vets? Let's hear from you.

And to all those who've fought the Taliban and Al Qaeda and "put a boot up their ass..." Hell Yeah!!!!Thanks!

Yes, we can't imagine.  I heard a description from a relative who was on Omaha Beach on DDay.  He landed with the third wave at about 11:00 am.  They were done fighting on the beach, but were about three miles inland.  However, he said, "When you are 19 years old and you step off the landing craft and walk through red water and over dead bodies, your life will never be the same."  

He's now 87 years old and I never saw him cry in his life until a few years ago.  We were talking about WWII and the incredible impact on the country as compared to current wars.  He talked about his graduating class of 1943.  There were 152 graduates.  Six were killed in the war and he broke down crying telling us that.  Doing the math would say that of 152 graduates, there were probably 73 men.  Regardless of how many actually served, that's 8 percent of a class in suburban St. Paul killed!

On a contemporary note, a good friend of mine was shot in Iraq and almost killed by the bullet shattering several vertabrae and puncturing his lung.  He spent a year at Walter Reed with three months of it in a full body cast as his vertabrae were too shattered to repair.

Thanks to all of you who have served and let us all remember those gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we may be free.  You are better men than me.  

USAF, air refueling, KC-135's.

I was very, very close to a special person in my life who is a Vietnam vet.  Also, the father of my dearest friends in the world is one of the last remaining Band of Brothers.

I am so grateful for and humbled by their sacrifices.

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