In the spirit of Veterans day

[Zuni]

I would like to thank all the veterans on DU for their service, then and now, and also for the day off tommorrow.

11 am tommorow, Paris time, is a scared moment. Does anyone know what time 11 am in paris is in Maryland?

[alwynsw]

1. Thanks and 6:00 AM

http://www.worldtimezone.com/

[Zuni]

6. No, thank you

Hats off to you sir.

[commander bunnypants]

2. You go you vets

DDQM

[Superfly]

3. You get the day off?

Nice to know my service is not going to waste!

B

[Zuni]

7. At least something good came out

of your scarifice! :)

[grannylib]

4. Hear hear, Zuni, thank you for doing this....

Absolutely 100% behind all our veterans...wish the current misadministration were supportive.
Veterans....:yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :hug:

[Zuni]

5. I agree

Veterans rule. The law office where I 'work' (I am there right now) has a lot of WWII and Korean War Veteran clients. They have done interviews for me that i have turned into term papers and such. Most are really great men.

[alwynsw]

10. And women!

Don't forget all those wonderful women who have served, are serving, and will serve.

[Zuni]

12. You are right

My bad. My apologies to all the female veterans here.

[alwynsw]

8. Between you and Zuni

I really feel special now!:bounce:

[Zuni]

9. It is your day

so make the most of it, soldier!

[alwynsw]

11. My service was years ago

But I wouldn't change a thing!

on edit: I keep thinking of things to add on this thread. I live next to Ft. Knox. The school system here invites all veterans to the schools on Veteran's Day. No speeches required. The schools serve a special lunch that is free to all vets and their companions as a way of saying thank you.

Every year, my wife who recently retired from teaching in the local middle school, came home a little teary on Veteran's Day, even though I always made it a point to share lunch with her that day.

Her dad: PT Boats WWII, South Pacific

My dad: B-17 pilot WWII, European Theater 2 tours (fought like hell to get the second, I'm told)

My stepfather: PT Boats WWII, South Pacific

Both on PT Boats knew JFK

[Zuni]

13. What branch

were you with, what unit? Just curious.

[alwynsw]

21. USAF

Was in the USAF Band. Got to Viet Nam by default. It was a TDY (temporary duty) thing for about a week. Morale tour. I saw enough that it gave me a real sense of what the guys in the mud went through.

Good and bad things happened there, but on the whole, I was and still am, proud of our military men and women of all ages.

[Swede]

14. My late father was in Europe during WWll.

As were many of my uncles and aunts. Lest we forget.

[Zuni]

16. Both of my grandfathers

fought in WWII. One was a mortarman with the US Army, my other was an officer in the Soviet Red Army.

[Swede]

18. My dad was in the signal corps in the Canadian army,my uncle Bob was

a bombadier in the RCAF.

[Aristus]

15. Thank you. My unit never got into combat, because the ground war

was over so quickly. Not like now. I nearly had a Scud missile dropped on my head, but that doesn't make me a war hero.

[Zuni]

17. I bet you were in Riyadh

I remember reading about big Scud attacks there during gulf war I

[Aristus]

19. Nope. King Khalid Military City. Took a near miss from a Scud about

two weeks after I got there. We were assigned from Germany, and had no desert warfare training. We were on our desert train-up when the ground war started, and returned from the field the day the ceasefire was declared. Hm. That was my war, taken for all in all.

[alwynsw]

20. I keep thinking of stuff that's I feel needs to be said

My stepfather was to graduate H.S. in 1942. December 8, 1941 all the males in his senior class (18 of 'em) enlisted and dropped out of H.S. 17 went into the Navy, one went Army. 17 went to PT Boats, probably the most dangerous combat duty in the war. One went into combat engineers.

The Navy crew all game home after the war, minor wounds, not even a lost limb. The combat engineer was killed in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.

Did I mention that the school, Mt. St. Joseph (run by the Urseline Sisters of Maple Mount, KY) called each young man's name and presented their diplomas to their families at the May 1942 commencement ceremony?

[PacificWind]

22. For George W. Bush ...

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