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Old 11-11-2013, 11:24 AM   #1
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Veterans day

Hi
Thank you to all veterans past and present
And my prayers and best wishes for those serving overseas to return home swiftly and safely

What is a Veteran?
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.

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".

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the
freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag."

Father Denis Edward O'Brien/USMC
Take care and ride safely
Yours Hank


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Old 11-11-2013, 02:20 PM   #2
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Great post Hank!

Thank you to all you Veterans out there!
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Old 11-11-2013, 02:35 PM   #3
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Great post Hank!

Thank you to all you Veterans out there!
Hi Mike
Your most welcome dear friend
It was my pleasure and an honor to have been allowed to serve

Take care and ride safely
Yours Hank
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Old 05-03-2015, 12:40 PM   #4
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You can see the shrapnel scar on my right hip , but I still remember VN! It makes me sick when I see the way our flag & country are treated by the younger generation! I was watching TV the other night & 1/2 of the college kids didn't even know who was the VP! Times & values have certainly changed. Irish

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Old 08-24-2015, 11:46 AM   #5
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Yesterday (Aug 23,2015) I was out of the service for 50 yrs! Does that mean I'm old? I was honorably discharged on Aug 23,1965! I'm now a Disabled Veteran. Irish



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Old 11-13-2015, 12:00 PM   #6
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Vets day!

Happy Belated veterans day! Irish
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