Veterans Day

[Russell A. Jost]

Big thank you to all our veterans for serving and future vets that are currently serving.
My motto is: "if you can't stand behind our troops, then please stand in front of them."

[Hatterized]

Big thank you to all our veterans for serving and future vets that are currently serving.
My motto is: "if you can't stand behind our troops, then please stand in front of them."

well said....i just started a Veteran's Day thread myself....if i knew you already did i would of posted it here...glad i am not alone in my thinking and giving thanks to the Vets.

[longfisher]

well said....i just started a Veteran's Day thread myself....if i knew you already did i would of posted it here...glad i am not alone in my thinking and giving thanks to the Vets.

I'd have felt better about the worth of my service had the government not lied to me about Vietnam had they not lied about Iraq and were they not lying through their teeth about Afghanistan.

LongFisher

[Russell A. Jost]

I'd have felt better about the worth of my service had the government not lied to me about Vietnam had they not lied about Iraq and were they not lying through their teeth about Afghanistan.

LongFisher

LF, this thread is about giving thanks to those who have served, those that have made the ultimate sacrifice, and those that are currently serving so people like you can continue to express your political views. So please express them in another thread.

[longfisher]

LF, this thread is about giving thanks to those who have served, those that have made the ultimate sacrifice, and those that are currently serving so people like you can continue to express your political views. So please express them in another thread.

They're views earned by experience and intellect and they're directly applicable to the "honor" we bestow on hapless veterans every year.

You see, political views would have something to do with government or politics. Personal views are what are expressed in my post above.

LF

[hubris 1]

As your next door neighbor in Cape May, I thank You. I know the sacrafice you made and I wish you well. Someday, I want you to tell the story about all the potatoes you peeled on your way to vietnam. And of course, the reason why. I never look at mashed potatoes today without thinking of that story and you. Maybe its funnier in person but, Its a memory I have from you telling it to me. Salute, to you and all. Even if it is f'ed up, its a sacrafice you made and I enjoy freedom because of you, and your type. Mashed potatoes included.

[Russell A. Jost]

They're views earned by experience and intellect and they're directly applicable to the "honor" we bestow on hapless veterans every year.

You see, political views would have something to do with government or politics. Personal views are what are expressed in my post above.

LF

"Hapless veterans" and "personal views." LF you been carrying this crap around in your head for 40 years, then you need a psychiatrist. But I doubt it will do you any good.

[aff]

A special thanks to everyone who has served!!!

[Reefraft]

"Hapless veterans" and "personal views." LF you been carrying this crap around in your head for 40 years, then you need a psychiatrist. But I doubt it will do you any good.

PTSD get help for the sake of your family. But it won't do any good.....he would have to face reality for it to work.

[seapower]

He can't have PTSD, he never served. Anyone that served knew and know's that the "power's that be" lie to help their own carrer's. Being that you and I served, we already know that. It's about taking care of your crew or buddy's, so that everyone get's home. I still get goose bump's when a low flying familuar sounding helo passes over head(as I'm sure you do aswell), have been known to get teary eyed for no "known" reason but to myself. We don't ***** and complain though, we just "carry on". Being a VET more often than not, is making the best out of any situation. One of the most aggrivated I can remember ever getting is when I tried to get "back in" when I knew we were going to Iraq. They wouldn't take me because I was too old. I tried my best to get in as an instructer, because thing's still break and us "old dog's" have still got experience that can be passed along. I know I'm not the only one that feel's that way. I would say that's the way 99% of true VET's feel. Everyone that know's me, know's the can count on me when the chip's are down, guess where I (we) learned that? If that makes me a liability to society, so be it.
A heart felt Thank You goes out to all that served "honorably". You are what keep's this Country (fault's included) a Free Nation. Frank