To all who served

[Bert Orange 1121]

Thanks for your service

[mdmost 43054]

The Google homepage is pretty awesome this morning. 5 veterans from each branch of service talk about their experiences. 

[LongestHorn 759]

Too many young veterans are struggling with injuries, booze, or the dozen pills they come home taking everyday to help them sleep, stay awake etc.  It's difficult to transition from threat analysis to dinner and a movie.  We can all do more to help them adjust, I feel.  I'm making calls this AM and I wanted to share that with you assholes.

[Armybrat 40918]

Just went to the funeral of Mrs. Brat's cousin on Friday - the 85 year old gentleman was quite the Renaissance Man, graduated UT Engineering in 1956, practiced in that profession several years before going back to medical school (UT Galveston) and became a radiology doctor... practiced 25 years. He was well read in history, and having been raised in a family of building contractors, could build a house and craft fine furniture.

His freshman year at UT was interrupted by the outbreak of the Korean War, and he enlisted at age 18 in the US Army to become a medic. He earned a Bronze Star and a Silver Star for valor in combat.

 

[InkaUtexas 26139]

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

    That mark our place; and in the sky

    The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

 

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

        In Flanders fields.

 

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

    The torch; be yours to hold it high.

    If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

        In Flanders fields.

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[Armybrat 40918]

Wire mesh & muslin sculptures look over their own graves in an English cemetery.....

[Nonbryan 173]

Thank you for your service Veterans!

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

My son: he has a year to go. 

 https://imgur.com/a/kFQvnTS

Edited November 11, 2018 by MaybeACoordinator

[Hate 20146]

Thanks to all that have served. I never did and will regret it to the day I shuffle off. Here are my father and my Grandpa. My Grandpa is still around and is about to turn 98.

[InkaUtexas 26139]

Dad and his Montagnard team getting ready for a recon insertion. Gracias Hombre. 

[Jkwellborn 6747]

Thanks to the badasses out there.

[FartingMonk 3608]

Big deal.  Just a bunch of us drunks with guns 

[El Diablo 4232]

48 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

Big deal.  Just a bunch of us drunks with guns 

Keeping Subic Safe, Sir! 

[Jkwellborn 6747]

Big deal.  Just a bunch of us drunks with guns 

USMC?

[Bigbend1812 12941]

14 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

Thanks to the badasses out there.

This.  Hook’em

[Armybrat 40918]

5 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

Big deal.  Just a bunch of us drunks with guns 

Except for the one I mentioned. He saved your asses so y’all could drink & shoot your guns again another day.

[SHOOTER12 8832]

18 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

My son: he has a year to go. 

 https://imgur.com/a/kFQvnTS

Be sure and give that young man our sincere thanks for his service

Dang, our soldiers look younger and younger all the time.....or I've just got a case of the "olds".

[LongestHorn 759]

My older brother in 1987 exercise with 101st at Fort Campbell.