Me - USAF Vietnam Era
DH - 100% Disabled Vietnam Vet, Army Ranger
DF - US Army Air Corps, WWII
DB - USAF Vietnam, deceased
FIL - Disabled Army Vet, WWII, deceased
Nephew - USAF Reserve and usually active
Niece - USAF Vet
....seems like there's a whole bunch of us with wanderlust we come by honorably! No wonder we're "here!" RVs of one kind or another since I built my first TH from a Wells Cargo CT for my first TDY in '66!!!!!!!! Used it for TDY/PCS/out-of-country storage through retirement in late '92.
Best to all!
J
Thank you as well... Was in the Doctor office waiting to be called today.. A young man (by my standard) seen I had my 101st Airborne hat on, came over and gave me a salute and thanked me for my service.. I couldn't have been more proud, of him, and me, to have served.
me Army WAC
DH Army retired 100% disabled
DS Navy ROTC and AF ROTC
brothers Army and Navy
Dad US Coast Guard deceased
mom was a Rosie the Riveter at Chance Vaught
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day and 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."
(anon)
"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 Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC)
Bless these and all others who have given so much – for those they knew, for those they never knew and those they never would know – to protect and assure God's gifts for us and all mankind.
2007 GMC Classic D/A Crew 4x4 SLT, OnStar, XM, VR, Garmin,
Prodigy, Equal-i-zer, Roadmaster Active Suspension
2007 Arctic Fox 27T
Co-pilots Spencer the old Golden Retriever and Lucy the Flat-Coat
Retriever pup.
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