A Shout Out to Our Veterans

[bowie]

A shout out to all those who served in uniform.

A big Thank You for your service. Yes, you are taken for granted and unappreciated, yet, collectively we owe our freedom, our rights and our standard of living to those who served. It is with a deep debt of gratitude…

THANK YOU !!!!!



The Soldier

It is the Soldier, not the minister who has given us freedom of religion.

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 freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Charles Michael Province, U.S. Army




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. 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 as another, or who 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 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.

Those two little words mean a lot, "THANK YOU."

Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC



Peace be with you.

[AntRobertson]

Yes thanks for killing all those poor brown people in their homelands.

[tomcat]

you are taken for granted and unappreciated

...not entirely true: Cadet Bonespurs thinks military parades are great...

[HuangLao]

Yes thanks for killing all those poor brown people in their homelands.

Expanding the brutal empire.

[Pragmatic]

No need to thank me in trying to get this bag of shit off the streets.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/v...-38473261.html

[Norton]

Yes thanks for killing all those poor brown people in their homelands.

Expanding the brutal empire.

[bowie]

always consider the source before you decide to ignore the comment

[AntRobertson]

That’s what I thought when I saw your post fawning over people killing poor brown people in their own countries to deliver Freedom & Democracy (TM) and to protect the US from people who never threatened it.

Jingoistic, cowboys ‘n injuns, bullshite innit.

[Norton]

killing poor brown people

Now, now Ant. Calm yourself. We vets killed brown, red, yellow, black and white. Equal opportunity lot we be.

So tell us, what did you or your ancestors do to serve Kiwi land?

[bsnub]

Maybe you should put up a flag pole like so many geriatric old drumpf supporters. Like we need to see another fucking flag.

[AntRobertson]

Now, now Ant. Calm yourself. We vets killed brown, red, yellow, black and white. Equal opportunity lot we be.

Don't mistake disgust for the politics for distaste for the persons.

Celebrating aggressions is bullshit whatever the side.

So tell us, what did you or your ancestors do to serve Kiwi land?

They were involved in fighting for both the oppressors and the oppressed and served with distinction against an actual fascist enemy and threat

[Norton]

Maybe you should put up a flag pole like so many geriatric old drumpf supporters. Like we need to see another fucking flag.

[bowie]

what did you or your ancestors do to serve Kiwi land

Got rid of most of dem damn maori

[Neverna]

Just a question if I may, is today a special day somewhere with regards to memorials or veterans? Veterans day in the US?

[AntRobertson]

Got rid of most of dem damn maori

It's like you want to advertise ignorance.

[Norton]

Veterans day in the US?

Soon. Nov 11.

[raycarey]

Just a question if I may, is today a special day somewhere with regards to memorials or veterans? Veterans day in the US?

no.
this is just an obvious attempt at trolling by bowie.
someone must have hurt his delicate feelings on another thread.

[harrybarracuda]

A shout out to all those innocent people they killed as well.

[bowie]

Ignoring the blatant trolls attempting to derail this thread.


To Our Veterans:


To those who have served. To the brave men and women who have put on a uniform, picked up a weapon and stood a Post. I Thank You.

Your service, efforts and many personal sacrifices for the greater good of the many are acknowledged and are greatly appreciated.

My personal and heartfelt thanks to those who have served. I Thank You from the bottom of my heart.

Peace be with you.

[HuangLao]

Not trolls at all.
Just challenging and questioning your numbing ignorance and intolerance.

[bowie]

FO Jeff

[bowie]

FO Jeff

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to just how many times the above has been posted on teak door?

[RPETER65]

That’s what I thought when I saw your post fawning over people killing poor brown people in their own countries to deliver Freedom & Democracy (TM) and to protect the US from people who never threatened it.

Jingoistic, cowboys ‘n injuns, bullshite innit.

Even when those poor brown people started killing us poor white people in our own country?

[bowie]

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Originally Posted by AntRobertson
That’s what I thought when I saw your post fawning over people killing poor brown people in their own countries to deliver Freedom & Democracy (TM) and to protect the US from people who never threatened it.

Jingoistic, cowboys ‘n injuns, bullshite innit.

[Jack meoff]

PM ne on this Bowie, and any one else.