I would like to extend a great big thank-you to all our veterans. They all deserve recognition for placing themselves at risk so that we may enjoy the liberties enshrined in our Constitution. Most do not get the recognition and honors they deserve so I would like to personally thank the ones that have impacted my life:
George, my grandfather, the Great War. A first-generation German, he enlisted the day that we declared war on the German Empire in 1917.
Wesley, my father, he was scheduled to be drafted for the invasion of Japan. The atomic bombs saved him that ordeal. As an Army National Guardsman he was activated to fight in the frozen hell of the Korean War.
Viktor, my father in law, he fled the fall of Germany as a child and found a home in the USA. He served six years in the Army and then twenty-four more in the Army Reserve, retiring as a CSM, the Cold War
Tom from Texas, US Army, Cold War
Brad the Unlucky, US Army, Cold War
Trunkmonkey, US Army, Cold War
Mike Reese, US Army, Cold War
OldSarge, He fought in Vietnam as an infantryman and then enlisted in the Navy and served as an airman on P-2 Neptunes during the Cold War
Bob Webb, US Army, Vietnam, Cold War
Brendan Moore, US Air Force, Cold War
Honest Dan, currently serving, US Army, GWOT
The Hutch, US Army, Cold War
Joe, currently serving, US Army, GWOT
Paul daMarine, US Marine Corps, GWOT
Rick Jones (not THAT one!) US Navy, Cold War
Zhodani Commando, Company F 425 LRRP., Cold War
You are Good Men, one and all. I ,and the Nation, owe you all a debt of honor and gratitude!
Thank God I didn’t have to go to war and experience that. The closest I came to death was jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Company F 425 LRRP.
ReplyDeleteMy profound thanks to all who served, to the cooks who kept me fed, the dudes (can’t remember their MOS right now) who made sure my chute was properly packed and would deploy as designed, to the supply guys that would never complain issuing a replacement for everything I broke, and everyone else that kept our unit functioning properly in the field.
Cheers
Kevin