buddahj Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 I just wanted to say "Thanks". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chargerz Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 To all those who died to keep our country safe, I sincerely thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorcher Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 To all those who died to keep our country safe, I sincerely thank you. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fatman Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 A big thanks to all of those who let us lead our lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Thank you for continuing to protect me and my family. Most sincerely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tazinib1 Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 WHAT IS A VET? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. 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 38th parallel. She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another. Or didn't come back AT ALL. He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known. So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU." "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBalla Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 (edited) You know...I can pretty much sum up what Memorial Day means to me... Today I held my daughter tighter than ever before and haven't been more touched hearing my son say our dinner blessing. Those two things are more than many of our fallin father's have gotten to do. Edited June 1, 2010 by SuperBalla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin3 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 You know...I can pretty much sum up what Memorial Day means to me... Today I held my daughter tighter than ever before and haven't been more touched hearing my son say our dinner blessing. Those two things are more than many of our fallin father's have gotten to do. That's awesome bro. Hope to be out there soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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