Memorial Day Salute

[Banshee7]

 

[TOMCAT21]

nicely said Logan..

[Stoney]

...I hear stupid college students who no grasp of how the world is...

Its ironic that some of the most educated are trully the most ignorant.  Forgive them Logan, and chalk it up to their youth--they'll feel differently once they've tasted what the world truly has to offer.  Some of us were fortunate enough to see the light at an earlier age. 

I'd personally like to offer up rememberances for Major Jay "Sweet Pea" Aubin, USMC and to LCpl Tim Blair, USMC.  One was a friend and the other one of my Marines.  Both killed during OIF.  Finally, a rememberance for Col Joseph "Smokin' Joe" Molofsky, USMC.  He was a personal hero, mentor, and the finest Marine Officer I ever knew.  He was truly one of those guys whose men would have followed straight into the bowels of hell.  A great American, fondly remembered and truly missed--this country is worse off without him.  He died of cancer back in September.

Here's to 'em--all of 'em.  We'll see them in Vahalla.

[LLogann]

I think you're missing the point.  And do us a favor and don't put your political viewpoints to a thread about remembrance.  To be quite honest, you have some nerve being English and talking about us being land grabbers.  When did the Queen give up Hong Kong again?  We have no colony's or whatever you call them.

just a very very quick google.

<S>  You a better man then me.

I would like to comment on your statements but won't as this is a thread to <S> all who have served (Vietnam 67-68)

My Uncle John Courtney (Us Army AirCorp..... Pacific Theater, WWII)  This is the only photo I have of any of my family that served............ My other Uncle in WWII was killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.

[jdbecks]

I think you're missing the point.  And do us a favor and don't put your political viewpoints to a thread about remembrance.  To be quite honest, you have some nerve being English and talking about us being land grabbers.  When did the Queen give up Hong Kong again?  We have no colony's or whatever you call them.

<S>  You a better man then me.
My Uncle John Courtney (Us Army AirCorp..... Pacific Theater, WWII)  This is the only photo I have of any of my family that served............
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my polital views were posted in reference to someone posting before me about quoting bush,  I never claimed to be a better man than anyone else..take your angry attitude elsewhere,

[crazyivan]

He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
return  is enough to bury those that did not return.

well said. to all you service men and women.

[LLogann]

Dude..... You quoted Shuffler talking about the French and you threw an anti Bush reference in.  But I'm not going to get into this with you here.

my polital views were posted in reference to someone posting before me about quoting bush,  I never claimed to be a better man than anyone else..take your angry attitude elsewhere,

[PFactorDave]

My Grandfather enlisted in the Navy shortly after December 7, 1941.  He served as a Seabee, building runways and roads on islands in the Pacific.  Often while under fire.

My father served stateside during the early part of the Vietnam war, training young grunts how to properly employ heavy machine guns.  He was never deployed, but hundreds of his students were.

One of my best friends from high school was a medic in the 3rd Light Cav at the time of Desert Storm.  He was one of the first boots on the ground there, and as it happens, one of the last to rotate out.  He is also one of those soldiers who sufferd from the enigmatic "Gulf War Syndrome", some of the symptoms plague him to this day.

I could go on, I have relatives who go back as far as the American Revolution in this country.

Big  .

May we never forget.

[SkiMan]

A great big  to all that have, or continue to serve.

More selfeshly, a  to
James Lumpkins.
Lance Corporal of Marines.

God speed devildog.

[LLogann]

Nothing selfish about that SkiMan. 

<S> E3 Lumpkins

A great big  to all that have, or continue to serve.

More selfeshly, a  to
James Lumpkins.
Lance Corporal of Marines.

God speed devildog.

I almost forgot my uncle Jimmy.........

<S> Staff Sergeant James Sandman........ Who was one of less then 1000 US citizen's who volunteered for Vietnam   Rest In Peace Uncle Jimmy

[skullman]

  To all who have served from a vet

[Yenny]

<S> to those who served and serving. <S> to my dad who spent 6 years PoW in Nam.

[slimmer]

 

[slimmer]

 

[DamnedRen]

See Rule #4

I gotta call BS. The point is that you live in a free country means you shouldn't die for expressing your views. That's why it's free.

 

Ren
USAF '71-'75

Thomas Jefferson Quote

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed.
The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain
quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few
lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."