Happy Veterans Day!

[Yoda]

You are very welcome; United States Navy 1966-69.

[Jacklitsch]

More Navy 1961 to 1964

USS Forrestal CVA 59
USS Massey DD 778
USS Camp DER 251

[xplainer]

USAF 1982-1992.
First Gulf War - Dhahran/ Khobar Towers.

[Exhibitman]

Thanks for keeping us safe, guys!

Has anyone noticed a trend in recent years of businesses not treating Veterans' Day as a business holiday? My wife's job [w/a Fortune 500 company] does not give it as a paid holiday, for example. As I recall when I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s everyone's offices were closed and every office I worked in until 1994 treated it as a paid holiday. On that last job the boss did not want to give it but was shamed into it by a vet on staff. Then again, he also tried to make everyone who wasn't Christian work on Christmas Day. I said fine, I'll take the 8 days each of Hanukkah and Passover as paid time off instead. He reconsidered.

[buymycards]

3 years in the Army. 18 months of that time was spent in Viet Nam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

[irishdenny]

You Guys & Gals who wake this day wit the Buzz ta Serve,
Have All of my Admiration!

This was my home fir 10 years... The USS Omaha!
I spent 12 more years serving the "Fast Attack" Submarine Community.
I couldn't Ask fir a more Rewarding Job!

I honestly left felling that I didn't do enough!
Which is why I spent 3 years in Iraq
& 6 months in Afghanistan.

You & I are All American's...
And without You "ALL",
We wouldn't of been able to do what we did & do!

These have been my thoughts fir quite some time now,
God Bless'd us ALL by GiviN US America... and we all Share some Responsibility ta Keeping Her Safe!!!

As Always My Friends...

"Life's Grand",
Denny

[jiw98]

Thank you to all those that are serving and have served this Great Country.

[jimtigers65]

Thanks to all my fellow vets. Air Force 1986-2012.
Holloman Air Force Base, NM 1986-88
Misawa Air Base, Japan 1988-92
Loring AFB, Maine 92-94
Plattsburg AFB, NY 94-95
Charleston AFB, SC 95-98
Patrick AFB, FL 98-01
Osan AB, Korea 01-02
Lakenheath AB, England 02-05
Beale AFB, CA 05-12

Age and bad knees decided for me to hang it up after 26 years. Had a great time, numerous deployments, traveled the world and made some good friends.