Happy Veterans Day 2021

[CCBoy]

Overseas, in the military. All you could get on Sundays, was the Cowboys. How could I not love Roger Staubach America’s team , the star , what it represented.. I live in New England patriots country. I will always be a cowboy fan. Tom Landry too many others

 

[CCBoy]

God bless us all...it's all for those here. A salute...

 

[RaZon]

Ah shucks, thanks!

Being in the navy my Nam experience was a bit lackluster, our job was to turn night into day so there we sat about five miles off the coast shooting off illuminous shells that on explosion lite up the skies, we kept that up all night long.

It was 30 days on the line, then two weeks of RR so off to Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Bangkok, we hit the Phillipines on our way in to refuel and load up those shells, so...Olongapo City. Six months of that, then a return to San Diego for three months then back to Nam. Four years of that.

The stories I can tell just not here, ha!!!!

Can tell this one.....

So we are in Olongapo looking for our first bar of the night, we pass this one place.....I hear that train a comin', it's rolling round the bend.....yep, Johnny Cash so we head on in, There was three little cats in a three piece band (as we are surrounded by,,,,buy me drink buy me drink) the one guy impersonating Cash sounded just like him, perfect! So after a couple more songs the band takes a break, Johnny Cash walks right by me.......Me...hey man that was great! He just looks at me.....he couldn't speak English, Ha!!!!

Went to school on the GI Bill, bought this home using a GI loan. Boot camp totally sucked but after that it was just a job, yep, went home at night unless on duty.

Funny thing was......nobody could call in sick.

 

[Bigdog]

Thank you to all the men and women who served to protect our freedoms that we so cherish. Thank you all the families who also sacrificed having their spouse or son/daughter away from them. Their sacrifice has not gone unnoticed.

 

[Ranched]

 

[Hardline]

99% of people wake up and enjoy freedom.
1% wake up and defend it.
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served, or serve & thank you.

 

[TXdvsz]

Lost my Dad in Vietnam when I was 10. Major Louis C Zucker. The sacrifices are real my friends. I will never forget. God bless these brave men and women!

 

[Reid1boys]

USMC 1988-1992

 

[glimmerman]

Happy belated Veterans Day.

 

[triplets_93]

When Japanese bombs began falling on Pearl Harbor, U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class David Russell first sought refuge below deck on the USS Oklahoma.

But a split-second decision on that December morning 80 years ago changed his mind, and likely saved his life.

“They started closing that hatch. And I decided to get out of there,” Russell, now 101, said in a recent interview.

101-year-old returns to Pearl Harbor to remember those lost

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-veterans-oklahoma-world-war-ii-d3db8d688fb1c8fcc2045c00266f3aff

Russell is traveling to Hawaii with the Best Defense Foundation, a nonprofit founded by former NFL Linebacker Donnie Edwards that helps World War II veterans revisit their old battlefields.

 

[triplets_93]