Patman

Pantless Wonder
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I got this as an email today.

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar,
a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin
holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort
of inner steel: the soul’s ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in
parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or
emblem. You can’t tell a vet just by looking.

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons
a day 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.”

Remember November 11th is Veterans Day.
 

High Lord Gomer

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Sep 26, 1999
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I know we have a lot of veterans here on DRN. Even if you don't hear it often, your service is appreciated every day that we get to live in the freedom you have made possible.

THANK YOU!!!
 

Ol'89r

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High Lord Gomer said:
I know we have a lot of veterans here on DRN. Even if you don't hear it often, your service is appreciated every day that we get to live in the freedom you have made possible.

THANK YOU!!!

+1 :cool: :cool:
 

RM_guy

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Damn Yankees
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Originally Posted by High Lord Gomer
I know we have a lot of veterans here on DRN. Even if you don't hear it often, your service is appreciated every day that we get to live in the freedom you have made possible.

THANK YOU!!!



+2 :cool:
 

XRpredator

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he's my dad's uncle, who brought back an 8mm Mauser and a crappy little 9mm FN pistol from WW2.

he's my mom's uncle, who didn't come back.

he's my uncle, who served in the USMC patrolling the 38th parallel after that whole thing was over

he's my other uncle, who served in the Navy right after Vietnam, when it wasn't so popular to sign up

she's my cousin, who got to travel the world with the USMC during a more peaceful time

he's my cousin, who can't really say what he did before, but is now stationed in Germany teaching the next generation.

he's my other cousin (and the last one's brother), stationed at Mountain Home AFB raising his boys with his wife (who also serves)

and he's my brother, who spent many a night sleeping in a MOPP suit waiting for someone to lob a CBRN shell at the USS Missouri during the first Gulf War, and who got to experience serving on such a piece of history before it was mothballed for good.

thanks
 

MXSparx

Mr. Meltsomeglass
Jul 25, 1999
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High Lord Gomer said:
I know we have a lot of veterans here on DRN. Even if you don't hear it often, your service is appreciated every day that we get to live in the freedom you have made possible.

THANK YOU!!!
:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
 

helio lucas

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THANKS for keep my little country from being invaded by the germans on WW2.
without most of you at this time we were still ....... (chose the word you feel it´s appropriate)

THANKS for the great service you have done and still do for whole WORLD. :nod:
 

Ghost Rider

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High Lord Gomer said:
I know we have a lot of veterans here on DRN. Even if you don't hear it often, your service is appreciated every day that we get to live in the freedom you have made possible.

THANK YOU!!!

Ur welcome! :cool:
 

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