Hats off for those who served!!
YaHa
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God Bless to who have gave their lives in battle for freedom for all of us to live the way we do today.
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William S Woods 2-27-71
Dennis Ziebarth 11-20-70
Ralph P. Miller 10-19-70
Glenn H. English 9-7-70 Medal of Honor
MOH Citation
edited to add Glenns citation
1. Carter Langlow
2. Chad Powell
3. Adam Sheffield
4. Robert Roberts (yes that's his real name)
Be safe boys!
-Paul
<< <i>To my fallen brothers in Vietnam B/3/503 173rd Airborne Brigade
William S Woods 2-27-71
Dennis Ziebarth 11-20-70
Ralph P. Miller 10-19-70
Glenn H. English 9-7-70 Medal of Honor
MOH Citation
edited to add Glenns citation >>
Nice Tribute GFour! My wish Is That Our Younger Generation Will have a True Understanding and Carry On With Memorial Days for the Future and not just think it means a Day off and a reason for another Barbque. Served 1967~1971 F-4 Phantom Squadron. Ray in Florida..
It won't ever end. Future generation are taught to hate Western ideology. 1 trillion dollars, and counting.
Sep90 - Apr91 Desert Shield/Desert Storm
440th Sig Bn./22nd Signal Bde, 5th Corps.
Wendel L. Payne he gave me my intial qualification check ride as a Loadmaster on the C-5A Galacy.
He was on the one lost on the baby lift out of Siagon.
Could not find the other friends I lost that day.
ps..got to give love to my fallen brothers and sisters also! IAFF Fallen FF Memorial
Herb
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SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
<< <i>I bought a collection from an 87 year-old WWII vet yesterday. He was a flight engineer/turret gunner on a B-17. He flew 29 missions over Nazi Germany. Of his squadron of over 200 men, he was one of 20, or so, who made it back home. I thanked him for "saving the world." >>
My Grandfather (now deceased) was a bombardier flying B-26's in WWII in the Army Air Corps. One of the coolest things was a Veterans Day program at my daughter's school where her band played a medley of all of the various service songs, and asked Veterans of each service to stand when their branch song played. The kids the gave boutiniers (sp?) to all of the service veterans. I have rarely seen my Grandfather so moved as when my Daughter gave him his.
-Randy Newman
Thank God for the working class poor that are willing to risk the only one thing they have that is priceless - their lives. And why are they willing to do this? I can't figure it out - but I sure am glad they do it. Without their sacrifice, I'd never be the man I am today. I profit by war and also by everything the poor working class does in their everyday lives.
Let's hope these people never figure out our secrets, Brothers. Else we may lose the freedom to rule over the world as we do. Yes, Brothers freedom isn't free. I'm just glad we don't have to pay for it with our own blood. The poor are so willing to give up their own blood for far less than most of us earn in 2 seconds off our interest payments.
Amazing. Amazing. How do we have it so good.
This is my 1st Memorial Day since my daughter joined the US NAVY
I posted this yesterday ...
to all that served before me ...
to all that served with me ...
to all that served since me ...
and to all that serve today ... (including my son and ArizonaJack's daughter)
I remember ... and I thank you!
USN Avionics Tech ... F/A-18 Hornet Handler ... 1983-1989
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Wendel L. Payne he gave me my intial qualification check ride as a Loadmaster on the C-5A Galacy.
He was on the one lost on the baby lift out of Siagon.
Could not find the other friends I lost that day.>>>
Linde, here is a link to the civilian casualties that day. Surprisingly, only 5 of the 17 crewmembers on board perished.
Operation Baby lift
Here is a list of the Air Force casualties, you may have to hunt a bit to find them all.
USAF
It fluttered in the breeze;
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform,
So young, so tall, so proud;
With hair cut square and eyes alert,
He’d stand out in any crowd.
I thought… how many men like him
Had fallen through the years?
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers’ tears?
How many pilots’ planes shot down
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers’ graves
No, Freedom is not Free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still;
I listened to the bugler play,
And felt a sudden chill;
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant “Amen”
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend;
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands.
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea,
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No. Freedom is not Free!
K Strong
To those who are serving or have served ,a big thank you for your service
And to those who died defending freedom or are missing in action, you will never be forgotten
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<< <i>Agree, we should salute all of those served and never came home as well as those who served in any capacity. Sacrifices by long forgotten individuals large and small have made this nation free.
<< <i>God Bless to who have gave their lives in battle for freedom for all of us to live the way we do today.
Amen
A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve-- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.'
Thank you all.
Let's hope these people never figure out our secrets,
I will tell anyone our secret but it does them no good because they don't have one thing and it is