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WWI Centennial Proof Silver as Christmas Gift 4 our Combat Veterans and/or Active Duty members

ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 25, 2018 11:51PM in U.S. Coin Forum

This Christmas and beyond ....... remember our troops and those who have served our country

<310 coins are available <3 with great appreciation <3 from my heart <3

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 24, 2018 12:14AM

    What a GREAT HEART! God Bless You <3

    @dadams said:
    You are much to generous and I would prefer this to go to a combat vet or one of our active duty members.
    1990-1994 US Army Active Duty
    1994-2000 US Army Reserves

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 23, 2018 10:54PM

    KUDOs to you my friend <3Bless your Heart <3

    @Kudbegud said:
    My draft number was 55 so I enlisted in the Air Force in '71. Training at Lackland, Texas, and Biloxy Miss. Spent my tour at Hickam in Honolulu. Got out 5/75. Stayed in Hawaii with a 4 year side posting in Guam '82 - '86.

    Edit to add: I like @dadams sentiment. Give mine to combat or active duty member.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 25, 2018 9:45AM

    Let me know how should I proceed with your coin value for DAV <3

    @mapleman said:
    My comment seems to have disappeared. Regardless, With heartfelt thanks, I will donate the equivalent to the DAV . Please advise.
    USAF 1964

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To veterans past, present, and the future thank you for all that you have done and will do. And to all thank you for your support and have a safe and happy holidays!

    @Paradisefound Awesome gesture and wish you wonderful holiday, Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau'oli Makahiki Hou.

  • JimTylerJimTyler Posts: 3,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    15 posts already. Is that less than 7 ? Navy 1974

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Air National Guard 1963 -1969. My unit out of Schenectady, NY never did get activated because we operated at 90% plus capacity with staff that would volunteer for 89 day stretches flying cargo and fuel to Vietnam and Cambodia. I sat behind a desk on my weekend drills processing their expense accounts.

    Thanks to all that did serve that we may be free and thanks to @Paradisefound for such a generous and thoughtful offer.

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  • maplemanmapleman Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Apologies to the combat veterans. I misread the post. I'm not a combat vet. I was injured in service 1964.

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 24, 2018 10:12PM

    Words cannot express the heartfelt admiration for those who chose to defend our great country.

    Their families are to recognized, for they let Uncle Sam take their loved ones away so that America may remain free for another day.

    Those who support the veterans should be recognized for their actions as well. They could have chose not to publicly advocate those who went into harms way and be ridiculed by those who thought differently.

    Merry Christmas to you and your families, extended and immediate.

    Thank you @Paradisefound for your extreme generosity throughout this past year.

    USAF (1987-2011)
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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 24, 2018 9:35AM

    Please accept my apology for my fault changing the term from Veteran to Combat Veteran after your post

    so you are still in my friend B)

    @mapleman said:
    Apologies to the combat veterans. I misread the post. I'm not a combat vet. I was injured in service 1964.

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Currently enlisted and just passed 14 years of service, no combat time. Changed MOS from combat engineer to mechanic after hearing loss in Germany.

    Thanks to all who have served! Many have sacrificed a great deal more than I for this country.

  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    USAF Security Forces ‘91 - ‘99.
    Desert Shield/Storm, Somalia, Year in Korea like Justin.

    In the nearly 20 years since I got out, I’ve been thanked so much from when it was my turn to do the protecting, that I too defer to any Active Duty member now doing their turn doing the protecting.

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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very generous gesture, Paradise!
    Thank you to all who serve(d).

  • EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Late to the party as usual haha but thanks to @Paradisefound for your generosity. Happy holidays to all!

    30+ years in the Air Force and a veteran of multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hooah!

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  • KudbegudKudbegud Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seeing a lot of Air Force vets. Nice to see. "I was a pilot in the AF. Was given a shovel and told to pile it over there"
    No combat time but toughed it out at Hickam for all but school.


  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 24, 2018 10:45AM

    @Timbuk3 said:
    Another outstanding example of Paradisefound's kind and warm heartiness !!! :)

    +1
    She is most definitely one of a kind...
    (USAR 1982-1991, B Btry, 7th Battalion 1st FA)

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  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very, very generous of you, @Paradisefound! Thanks so much!

    I was in the reserves during the Viet-Nam era, so didn't make much of a sacrifice. My admiration and honor for those who did.


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  • TrazTraz Posts: 377 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow a lot of vets here. Thanks guys for your service.

    We’ve built a lot of key components for a lot of critical military equipment. Most of you have probably seen it assembled. I know my friend who was in 10th mountain division saw a bunch of it.

    Merry Christmas!

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  • dadamsdadams Posts: 376 ✭✭✭

    @ECHOES said:
    (USAR 1982-1991, B Btry, 7th Battalion 1st FA)

    M109 Cannoncocker here - 4/29FA, 8th ID Baumholder Germany

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    <3 .... an A P&T Veteran up the ante by $370 in contribution to DAV <3
    J Marc Burgess (Nat. Adjutant CEO of DAV) confirmed $430 donation :)
    Thank you for your heartfelt gesture and forever God Bless You

    BIG Salute to @mapleman <3

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,375 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Timbuk3 said:
    Another outstanding example of Paradisefound's kind and warm heartiness !!! :)

    All that warmth is why she was banished to Hawaii so she wouldn't melt the polar ice caps. ;)

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 27, 2018 7:49PM

    <3These members Graciously declined so others may have their chances <3

    Kudbegud
    Blitzdude
    TwoSide2aCoin
    CharlotteDude
    bobsr
    dpoole
    oih82w8
    DIMEMAN
    ECHOES

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Where is @DIMEMAN ?

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bobsr
    @Namvet69

    You probably crossed each other paths in Nam without even know it then

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Paradisefound said:
    Where is @DIMEMAN ?

    I'm right here PF. :):oB)

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,247 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I met a lot of brave young men in Nam. And at the evac hospitals many brave women trying to keep the casualties alive. On my second tour, I also had the pleasure of the company of a European medical team on a hospital shop called the Helgoland in Danang harbor. Them was some heady times. Merry Xmas to all. Peace Roy

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,849 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the kind gesture.

    National Guard from 97 to 2003
    Operation Iraqi Freedom 2004-2005

    What's funny is that I ran dozens of convoy security / VIP protection gigs while in Baghdad without any problems and got wounded in an IED blast inside the secure Green Zone market.


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  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Merry Christmas Parridise, I see you're still at it. Very , very generous of you!!!

    Keep spreading the 💕💕💕💕💕.......


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  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PF you are amazing! So generous and always always uplifting!!!! I'm not eligible but want to thank all those that are. Here are some related lyrics to a recent Paul Simon Christmas song'

    From early in November to the last week of December
    I got money matters weighing me down
    Oh the music may be merry, but it's only temporary
    I know Santa Claus is coming to town

    I got a nephew in Iraq it's his third time back
    But it's ending up the way it began
    With the luck of a beginner he'll be eating turkey dinner
    On some mountain top in Pakistan

    Getting ready, oh we're getting ready
    For the power and the glory
    And the story of
    Christmas Day

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