I want to thank all veterans for their service this memorial day... Thank you.

[ARC]

Thank you...
You guys and gals are the best.

Have a good memorial day weekend.

 

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[Msbeepbeep]

Amen to that!

 

[SeabeeRon]

Right back at ya!!

My father in law was Navy in the Pacific and my Dad was Army in Europe.

 

[JmCraz8]

Thank you have a great and blessed weekend

 

[Mackaydon]

Remember that Memorial Day is to honor those who have died.
We, the living Vets, get honored on Veterans Day.
RIP Kenneth Frate, USN 1977
Don....

 

[SeabeeRon]

Remember that Memorial Day is to honor those who have died.
We, the living Vets, get honored on Veterans Day.
RIP Kenneth Frate, USN 1977
Don....

You are correct! Edited my post. Happy Memorial Day to all!

 

[joesmarbles]

It's the thought that counts! Thanks, SSGT Joe McDonough, 6931st Security Group, March 1968-March 1972

 

[TheRingFinder]

Hey Mackaydon - You beat me to the punch!! I give thanks' to ALL the Vet's out there, and I am one myself - Though memorial day is for those Vet's who gave the ultimate sacrifice - -

Their Lives for ALL of America's freedom!!!! I salute you all!!!!!!

 

[MuckyBottles]

Thanks ARRC, much appreciated...

" When you go home...Tell them of us and say...we gave our tomorrow for your today"
97'-07' 1st Mardiv. 3rd Batt. 5th Marines Kilo Co.


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[Oregon Viking]

Thank you...
You guys and gals are the best.

Have a good memorial day weekend.

I agree with you 110%!!

 

[Mackaydon]

ARRC,
I do acknowledge your good intentions; many thanks,
Don

 

[T.C.]

"War drew us from our homeland
In the sunlit springtime of our youth.
Those who did not come back alive
remain in perpetual springtime

-- forever young --

And a part of them is with us always."
- Author unknown -

Thanks ARRC, much appreciated...

" When you go home...Tell them of us and say...we gave our tomorrow for your today"
97'-07' 1st Mardiv. 3rd Batt. 5th Marines Kilo Co.


https://youtu.be/okg87WT0SDM?t=2m32s

 

[T.C.]

This one puts it best....

"They shall not grow old,
as we that are left behind grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them..."
- from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon -

 

[T.C.]

"If you are able,
save for them a place inside of you
and save one backward glance when
you are leaving for the places
they can no longer go.

"Be not ashamed to say you loved them,
though you may or may not have always.
Take what they have taught you with their dying
and keep it with your own.

"And in that time when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to
embrace those gentle heroes
you left behind."

Major Michael O'Donnell
KIA March 24, 1970 - Dak To, Vietnam

 

[Don57]

Thank you to all our vets and God bless you

 

[T.C.]

Welcome Home My Brothers.....

Memories

I remember the good times, I remember the bad.
Good makes me happy and the bad make me sad.
In 1965 America called on us again
To defend her and Honor Her and our Kin.
So off to Vietnam and war we went in 1966,
Humping the boonies and Flying in Huey Slicks.
We fought for our Country, our Honor and died
In jungles, rice paddies and mountain side.
We fought and died bravely not thinking of it twice,
Support from our familes and America would have been nice.
Ridiculed and sworn at spit upon and more -
If we had not done it, who would have fought the war?
Trying to save a forigen nation in time of strife,
We were willing to fight and give our life.
A nation ungrateful for almost 30 years
To this infantryman's soul it brings a tear.
Never shirked our duty, held our heads high with pride,
Holding our brothers and watching them die.
Looking at all the names on this Wall of Stone
Waiting for America to say "Thank you and welcome home!"
Johnathan Lee Nelson

John Nelson
A 1/8 4ID Vietnam 1966 1967

 

[T.C.]

Just a Simple Soldier



He was getting old and paunchy and his health was failing fast,
And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he had fought in, the deeds that he had done.
In his exploits with his buddies they were heroes, every one.
And 'tho sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke,
all his buddies listened, for they know whereof he spoke.
But we'll hear his tales no longer, for ol' Bob has passed away,
and the world's a little poorer, for a Soldier died today.
No, he won't be mourned by many, just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary, very quiet sort of life.
He held a job and raised a family, quietly going on his way
and the world won't note his passing, 'tho a Soldier died today.
When politicians leave this earth their bodies lie in state,
while thousands note their passing and proclaim that they were great.

Papers tell of their life stories from the time that they were young,
but the passing of a soldier goes unnoticed and unsung.
Is the greatest contribution to the welfare of our land,
some jerk who breaks his promise and cons his fellow man?
Or the ordinary fellow, who in times of war and strife,
goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life?
The politician's stipend and the style in which he lives,
are sometimes disproportionate, to the service that he gives.
While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all,
is paid off with a medal and perhaps a pension, small.
It's so easy to forget them, for it is so long ago,
that our Bobs and Jims and Johnnys went to battle, but we know
It was not the politicians, with their compromise and ploys,
who won for us the freedom that our Country now enjoys.
Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand,
would you really want some copout, with his ever-waffling stand?

Or would you want a Soldier, who has sworn to defend
his home, his kin, and Country, and would fight until the end?
He was just a common Soldier and his ranks are growing thin,
but his presence should remind us - we may need his like again.
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the Soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,
then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.
Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say:

"Our Country Is In Mourning,
For A Soldier Died Today"

(Author Unknown)

 

[MuckyBottles]

To my grandad..

Op. Overlord..
Falaise Gap..
First American unit to liberate Paris..
Battle of the Bulge..
Battle of Remagen (Ludendorf Bridge)

Miss ya much, I still carry your fighting spirit daily.

Ssgt. Ernest H. Zuberer 116th AAA Mobile Battery D

 

[coinman123]

Honoring my grandfather won Purple Heart in Battle of the Bulge, I don't have it but I have almost every single document that he wrote or looked at during WWII From what I remember correctly he saved many men from an axis attack during the battle of the bulge.

Muckybottles, there is a chance that your Grandfather saw my Grandfather at one point

Let us honor every single soldier who ever risked there life in the service of protecting our country

 

[SeabeeRon]

Honoring my grandfather won Purple Heart in Battle of the Bulge, I don't have it but I have almost every single document that he wrote or looked at during WWII From what I remember correctly he saved many men from an axis attack during the battle of the bulge.

Muckybottles, there is a chance that your Grandfather saw my Grandfather at one point

Let us honor every single soldier who ever risked there life in the service of protecting our country

Hey coinman! My dad was at the Battle of the Bulge as well. Heroes each and everyone!!