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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: USRanger on May 27, 2007, 04:33:44 PM
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With men currently missing in Iraq (and don't forget Sgt. Matt Maupin, captured & missing since 2004) I ask anyone willing to fly this avatar this Memorial Day week to show our support. May they finally come home.
(http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3712/powmiazn1.gif) (http://imageshack.us)
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Cecking in from Punchbowl Cemtary Memorial Day Ceremony.
POW, MIA.
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Wtg Serenity. I grew up in Hawaii(Ewa Beach), I know the Punchbowl well.
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:aok
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good idea ranger
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You guys rock! TY
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I lost an Uncle at Que, but he was MIA for two years before his body was recovered. It literally killed my grandmother with grief waiting those two years. She died within six months of his remains coming back. I salute all who have lost, gave, and all the families who have sacraficed greatly.
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Mark
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This will be my avatar for this weekend and much longer.
The brave who shall never see home again.
CFYA
Ryan
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Nice ranger.
13 great uncles MIA in WWII.
1 second cousin MIA Korea.
Salute all who serve.
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Right on fellas. This community makes me damn proud sometimes.
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Salute.....
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very cool <
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Right on!
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Will do Ranger.
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Gonna meet ya half way Ranger.
Going to use a photo of Lt. Al Brody, USAAF as my avatar. Al is still MIA. I spent a decade researching his loss along with the rest of the B24 crew he was a part of. He was a co-pilot on a B-24 shot down February 14, 1945
6 of the crew managed to bail out and were POWs although one died in captivity. 6 are still MIA.
Al shares the same birthday as my son, December 3rd. Al was born in 1923. Andrew was born in 1983.
In talking to Al's younger brother, he talked about how that loss affected their family for the rest of his parents lives, and how it still affected his life. I often wondered what that felt like.
While I didn't lose my son in combat, I did lose him in a car accident. Like Al, Andrew was 21. So I now have a pretty good idea of what it must have felt like to have that knock at the door with that telegram saying their son was not coming home.
I still hope to find Al and bring him home.
It's important we don't forget those guys.
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/AlBrody.jpg)
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Very nice! Done!
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from a Viet Nam vet with friends whom stayed at the Hanoi Hilton.
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Good Idea..
Lest we forget..
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Done fella, as exforces myself - may they all come home!!
Wurzel
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good thinkin'
(...besides, I always go MIA every time I enter enema territory, for some reason.)
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Less we forget.........to all who served & to all who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
Served USAF 60 thru 63.:aok
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I have used the POW/MIA flag as part of my avi for some time.
It also flies at home on occasions such as this.
A local VFW now flies this flag since we donated it to them and strongly encouraged they fly it.
To those who serve....past, present and future.
Thanks for our freedom.
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guys
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Good one Ranger
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all, thx for taking part.
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3ID 3/7 INF. Rock of the Marne. Cotton bailers by God:D <<
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"It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, they gave up two lives - the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their country, for us. All we can do is remember."
Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States of America
Lest we forget,
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Originally posted by scot12b
3ID 3/7 INF. Rock of the Marne. Cotton bailers by God:D <<>>
3ID 1/15 INF (MECH)
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To those who serve....past, present and future.
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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hope this helps:aok
to all who served and thanx to all who served with me !!
Jeff Faver U.S. ARMY 1982-1989
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good idea... it would be cool if everyone on forums used this.
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Originally posted by zorstorer
3ID 1/15 INF (MECH)
me too... 90-93...
Schweinfurt?
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Schweinfurt?
hehe that`s old 3ID Bro. Fort Stewart sir. You must have fun in Germany I bet:D
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Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
me too... 90-93...
Schweinfurt?
Was in the 24ID before they re-flagged from Germany. I was stationed my entire 4 years on Kelly Hill :D I don't think I was in the DA's reassignment computers ;) Hell I had guys I went though basic with get assigned to kelly hill for a year then rotate to korea and then back...all while I was still there ;)
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Originally posted by scot12b
hehe that`s old 3ID Bro. Fort Stewart sir. You must have fun in Germany I bet:D
Lol I wish...we were the bastard step children that no one wanted...Kelly hill ;)
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Im a Little Late for memorial day
but yet it is always a worthy cause
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I'm proud to be an American. Let us never forget. Semper Fi <
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Wackernhiem 8th id 1/59 ADA hq batt.
partyed at funsels in Inglehiem were i lived
right off the rhine river. i did travel all over germany
tho flying remote control target drones.:noid