Comments on: One Thing to Say on Veterans’ Day

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:37:30 +0000

Your welcome! Semper Fi!

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:17:15 +0000

Thanks John. The most valuable lesson I got from my service was learning the difference between a job and a profession. I am proud to have served with so many professionals. All you Citizens out there: Do your damn job and vote! We're in the mess we're in now because somebody's been slacking off. Big corporations should not be running our Great Nation into the ground. If you think US healthcare is awful, look at the way our wounded brothers and sisters are being treated upon their return to the US. Dogs get better care. Shame on our government for continuing to let this go on. As retired Air Force, I can't really advocate signing up for the Navy :-) but those crazy recruiter sailors came up with a spot-on ad a few weeks ago at America's Navy

By: rob

rob — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:21:38 +0000

Thanks for your support, John, I especially appreciated the e-copy of Ghost Brigades you sent to vets during my last deployment.

JEff S. #23, good point, we took an oath the support and the defend the entire US Constitution.

For 21 it has been an honor and a privilege, it was also a lot of fun amidst the trials and hardships. I got to see people at their worst, but also at their best.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:20:01 +0000

As a Vet, I say you’re welcome.

But I also say as a Vet, if you really want to thank me, here’s what I’d like you to do.

Vote
Vote in every election even the little local ones.

Keep talking
Talk about everything because these conversations allow us all to figure out where we want to go from here.

See, and I’m sure my brothers and sisters who served would agree with me, I didn’t join the military to protect the world from communism. I didn’t do it for oil and I certainly didn’t do it so I could go to other countries and shoot people.

I did it for this reason.

The First Amendment: addresses the rights of freedom of religion (prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion and protecting the right to free exercise of religion), freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition.

That amendment is everything …

Sorry, jumping off the soapbox now.

By: Slim and Slam

Slim and Slam — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:11:31 +0000

Does anyone know anything about that speech-balloon sign in the background of the photograph?

By: B. Durbin

B. Durbin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:09:16 +0000

Very nice Veteran’s Day parade in my town. Many veterans not only in the parade but on the sidelines (such as my dad.) Thanks to all of you.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:08:38 +0000

So say we all!

From an Brit Vet, to all the US and other Vets, and Allied Forces currently serving, thank you.

By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:56:19 +0000

And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who’s given a gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birth
Though we’ve never owned one lousy handful of earth?

By: eviljwinter

eviljwinter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:26:56 +0000

Thank you, Carl Hottle (WWI), Albert Landrum (WWII), Michael Landrum (Vietnam), Richard Hottle (Vietnam), Silas Brock (Vietnam – tunnel rat), Joyce Brock (peace time after Cold War), Jason Landrum (Cold War), Wilbur Bergdorf (WWII), Fred McCarty(WWII), David McCarty (Operation Desert Shield). Some of you deserved better on your return home. All of you deserve our thanks.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:51:28 +0000

Thank you for your service James Barker, Paul E. Cortez, Steven Dale Green, Bryan L. Howard, Joseph Schweitzer, Richard J. Ashby, Jesse V. Spielman, Anthony Yribe, Stephen Tatum, Frank Wuterich, Justin Sharratt… you will be always remembered.