21 Gun salute for veterans no longer with us

[nini]

My dad was in the Army during WWII in the Phillipines and New Guinea.

Thanks Dad for your sacrifice and service. I can still hear the shots being fired during the 21 gun salute at your graveside the day we buried you. I will visit that grave tomorrow and leave you a flag of which you were so proud to serve under and wave your entire life.

These last few years would have frustrated the hell out of you to see our rights chipped away, but I know you are looking down on us today with the same sense of relief we feel in seeing this country reject those who try to take away those rights you fought for.



Thanks Dad! I will never forget you and miss you with all my heart. :patriot:

[lcordero2]

1. .........................

:cry:

[nini]

4. ..

:hug: :cry:


I realllly miss my dad :cry:

[haele]

2. Here's one for Oneeighty...

Fare winds and following seas, brother.



Haele

[nini]

3. Yep.. thanks Oneeighty

:cry:


:patriot:

[blondeatlast]

10. .Just think how proud our patriot forebears would be of us right now.

We've won the fight for the country they served so well.

[Ilsa]

5. My dad is still with us, but he is 80 years old and has Parkinsons.

Taken in 1944, I think, right after his 18th birthday and he joined the Navy.

[nini]

8. Great picture!

That generation surely fought for all we have today.

Here's to your dad :patriot:

[Phrogman]

17. What a fantastic old photograph!

A treasure for sure. Beautiful.

[Zomby Woof]

6. A Democrat who taught his daughter well!!

:patriot: I am sorry I never got a chance to meet him personally. He was surely one of a kind! :hug:

[nini]

7. Yep.. it's in my blood!

Goes back a couple generations too! My grandma would be all over * if she was here :-)


I wish you could have met him too. I can only imagine the conversations you two would have!


:hug:

[blondeatlast]

9. To my father Lt. John R. Harrington. Army Air Force navigator in WWII.

He was proud to serve his country but never talked about WWII--too painful for him.

Dad, I'm raising your beloved grandson to be a spunky yellow dog patriot just as you raised me!

:patriot:

[nini]

12. My dad didn't give many details either - at least about combat

Though he wouldn't eat rice ever again after that. He said there were maggots in the rice they were fed over there. He hated Gen. MacArthur because while they were eating maggot infested food he was setting up an 'office' for when he came to visit there complete with fancy furniture and the whole spread.


Here's to Lt. John R. Harrington :patriot:

[blondeatlast]

11. Recommends. please. We won back our country for these patriots who

proudly served the nation they believed so in.

[YankeyMCC]

13. For my Dad, Grampa, Great Uncle Tom

Dad served in Viet Nam (sonar man on the USS Maddox)
Grampa served in WWII (Navy Gunner)
Great Uncle Tom also in WWII but in the Air Corps (and his future great nephew YankeyMCC would follow that example in the Air Force ;))

All of these fine men live only in the memories of those who knew and loved them now. I think of them whenever I stand up for what I believe to be the good in America and how our government should treat and provide for its people.

[nini]

14. you've lost many :-(

I salute all of them :patriot:


They taught you well.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. My Dad ...... my Uncles ......

.... Tony, Pete, Pete, John, my cousins Raffie, Oscar, Sal, and Tony, Jr.

All gone. All still missed dearly.

I love you, Dad.

Also, to the guys of my generation who spilled it and lost it all in SE Asia in the 60s and 70s ...... and their walking-dead brothers who, to this day, are on the streets, annonymous, ignored, and abandoned by their own country.

[nini]

18. Saluting all of them!

:patriot:

[Aristus]

16. "Papa" Aristus, 1910-1980. U.S. Coast Guard, World War II.

[nini]

19. he died too young.

great picture.

:patriot: papa Aristus

[Aristus]

20. He was a heavy smoker. So much so that it probably convinced

my Dad never to smoke. He passed that on to me, thankfully.

I never knew his politics, but he was probably pretty conservative. He went on to be a cop in Oklahoma City. Not exactly Liberal Central. Still, he was a good grandfather.

[rockymountaindem]

21. My grandpa also fought in the Philippines

Although I don't have a picture of him in digital form, I'd like to salute him. He died when I was one year old, at the age of 70. My mother always says that he and I really would have liked each other, and I think of him a lot. Here's to you, grandpa.

:patriot:

[nini]

22. wouldn't that be something if they served together.

Too bad you didn't know your grandpa :-(

:patriot: saluting grandpa!

[WhoDoYouTrust]

23. My brother, Dennis and my best friend, Richard.

Both lost this year. My brother in January. Richard in September.

Vietnam Veterans.

God I miss them.

[nini]

25. I'm so sorry for your losses

I'm sure this is a tough time for you :hug:

[blondeatlast]

24. kick. nt

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

26. nini, great thread.

This post is for my Grandpa, WWI and Purple Heart vet. He was gassed twice in France and died in 1960 at the age of 62 from the effects it had on his lungs.

For my Dad, who also fought in New Guinea and the Phillipines during WWII and absolutely despised "Dugout" Doug MacArthur and who made me the Democrat I am today.

For my Uncle Jack, my godfather, who participated in the invasion of Normandy, for my Uncle Bob who fought in the Battle of Bulge and in the liberation of Dachau and never forgot what he saw in that terrible place.

For my Uncle Buddy, a veteran of Iwo Jima and my Uncle Tom who met his "big brother" for the first time in 3 years at Iwo Jima.

For my beloved brothers, Terry and Tom. Terry served in Vietnam from October, 1967 through November, 1968 and Tom who somehow lucked out and spent a year sitting in Korea on the DMZ during 1970-1971.

They're all gone now but I still love them all and miss them.

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[nini]

27. WOW.. that's quite a list!

Funny how you heard the MacArthur stories too - he must have been a real pig.

Salutes to all your loved ones :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[buddhamama]

28. I salute our Veterans

and offer my Thanks to them.

Both of my Parents were enlisted personnel and served in the Navy, it is where they met.

:patriot:

[nini]

30. Saluting buddhamma's mama and dad!

:patriot:

[NoPasaran]

29. My uncles George and Stanley

Who were in the Navy during World War Two:patriot:

My father, still hanging in there at 88, took part in the liberation of Europe in the US Army.:patriot:

[nini]

31. Your dad is the same age as my uncles who were in WWII also

All my uncles fought in WWII and Korea too.


Here's to your uncles and dad :patriot: