And a Very Happy Veterans Day

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Posted By: dan mckee

To me and all of the other Veterans out there!

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Posted By: boxingbaseballgolf33

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE



GRAMPA CARD

GRAMPA PICCUITO

GRAMPA LEONARD

and MY Dad and all my other family who served



I am also honored to be working for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Air Force



Jimmy

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Posted By: Steve Murray

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Thank you grandpa!






I have no photos of my other grandpa..wish I did. He was wounded in Africa when he was shot through the chest.

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Posted By: leon

Your grandpa has a resemblence to you....thanks for sharing....

And here is one posted for Dan McKee of Pops (his dad).......

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Posted By: Jerry Rucker

Thanks Dad
Navy Corpsman - 4th Division Marines - WWII
Hit Beaches at Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinan, Roi-Namur, Marshall Islands
Bronze Star awarded at Iwo

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Posted By: Patrick McHugh

Dan are we the only 2 vets out there? Congrats to all that served. 7th ID Light fighters

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Posted By: Jerry Rucker

I'm a Vietnam veteran
US Navy 1966-70
USS Ticonderoga CVA-14

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Posted By: Kevin

USAF / SGT / Fire Rescue 82-86
SF attachment, Operation El Dorado Canyon

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Posted By: Richard S. Simon

US Army 1966 - 1968
Ft Polk, LA
Ft Devens, Mass
Edgewood Arsenal, MD
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No retreat baby, no surrender.
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Posted By: Steve

Wasn't this day at one time called "Armistice day"

11 hr on the 11th day of the 11th month the guns of WW1 fell silent?


Thanks to all the Vets by the way.


Steve

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Thank you to both my grandfathers; for while they may have served on different sides of the cause during WWII, both fought for and served their respective countries with dignity.

Thank you to my uncles, one who served during Korea and the other who served during Desert Storm and Operation Freedom, and thank you to my friends who continue to serve. Thank you to everyone else who fights for us all.

One of my favorite possessions - my grandfather's original Normandy invasion map which he gave me a few months before he passed away. The story behind how this map survived is quite amazing...

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Posted By: Jantz

U. S. Army - Infantry

1985-1993

Big Red One


Thanks to all the other veterans out there!


Jon C. - That map is truly incredible.


Jantz

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Posted By: Mike Ellis

U.S. Army
1966 - 1969
Ft. Polk, LA
Ft. Holabird, MD
Vung Tau, Vietnam
Ft. Huachuca, Arizona

Thanks to all veterans and their families.

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Posted By: Rob Ray

...Thanks to ALL of you who have served our country.

Stopped by for a while during lunch yesterday to salute some of the vets in the NY parade. Always makes me tear up.

Thanks to my late dad and ALL my late uncles who served in WW2.

I still have the mangled bullet and shrapnel fragments they pulled out of my dad's chest and shoulder after he paratooped into France,and,as ugly as these small "mementoes" are, they make me proud of him. He never talked much about "the war" until late in life.

I always sneaked a look at his army coat hanging with mothballs in the basement...one day,when i was around 16,he finally talked to me about his experiences...first time I saw him cry. I can't imagine what it's like for any soldier to go through battle. Dad took out a small glass marmalade jar from France, in the back of our basement near his unused golf clubs...and in it was the small, dull bronze mangled bullet fragment and a small twisted greenish bit of shrapnel. I knew then how he had gotten those scars.

He then opened up a locked box hidden under his basement tool table,which I never knew was there... and pulled out a sleek black gun: a Luger pistol taken,he told me,from a german soldier. My brother has that.

Also, a quick sketch drawn of dad by his buddy (who was killed when my father was shot,he told me)from inside the plane as they flew over France...the same day as they all dropped and his friend was killed. He at least chuckled and said that his friend Jack was busy scribbling this drawing (on the back of an "Army Hit Kit" music magazine sheet,I think it was called)while everyone else sat with jaws clenched or throwing up in the plane. As everyone was getting up to "suit up",Jack passed this drawing to him and my dad stuffed it in his pocket with his map. He said it was the last words anyone said to jack.
He gently clenched his fists while he was talking to me about this,and let it all out.
He was sent back into action after recovering for 2 weeks and he said it was the longest 8 months of his life.

An amazing,scary thing for a 16 year old to hear all this,especially since I was getting old enough to go to Vietnam...missed that by a couple of years as that war ended when I was 16.

Then we never spoke of it again. Mom was shocked when I told her about it a few years later. She said "he never talked about it with anyone but your uncles."

I then read a few WW2 books where men talked of their experiences and understood more of the horrors,and the great pride military men felt. And their reluctance in discussing issues related to their service.



So...thanks to those who are serving now.

You have my undying appreciation and it makes me proud every time I go to a voting booth. Without you guys I might not have HAD the opportunity to vote.



Words don't do justice to those who served,and,especially to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.



I shed a tear for your losses,and my heart is proud for your service to our country.

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Posted By: Steve F

Thankyou to all the vets past and present. Especially to Jerry's dad.

"The Marines HAVE their few good men... The Navy Corpsmen!"

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Posted By: Steve Murray

USN 1961-1964
USS Forrestal
USS Massey
USS Camp

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Posted By: leon

Rob R- that was a great tribute you wrote.

I got an email from a board member now wondering about the chicky in Pops Mckee's picture. Just who is that unknown mystery women with a good looking side of her...?

regards
leon

USMC 1979-1981
Camp Pendelton, Okinawa...... MOS 0352- dragon missileman

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Posted By: John Harrell

As a vet who served in the Navy during Vietnam, thanks to all who have helped make it possible to enjoy the life we have in this country.

John

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

US AIR FORCE

1960 - 1964

RADAR Specialist on B52 Bomber Base in Maine

RADAR & Electronics Instructor at Rantoul AFB, Illinois






8th Air Force Commendation ribbons for duty during the Cuban Missle Crises....Oct 1962.


Watched many of my fellow AIRMAN from our Squadron deployed to Vietnam in its early
staging in 1961-62.


TED Z

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Posted By: Al

1st Infantry Division, Vietnam, 1969-1970
Lai Khe, Dian, Can Tho, Saigon

To all who served...Welcome Home!!

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Posted By: dan mckee

And all other Vets! I commend all of you!! I am retired Army National Guard 20 years and 2 months. Started out as a ground pounder 11Bush went to combat engineer with a specialty in bridging 12 B and C then did Commo radio teletype operator 31C then to military intelligence 96B and finished as operations Sergeant for force tracking of the Joint Task Force Augmentation Team attached to the 18th airborne corp out of Georgia. Was acting first Sergeant as E7 was the highest enlisted rank in the unit. Dan.

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Posted By: Rick McQuillan

1969-1971 in South Viet Nam with the 173rd Airborne.

Rick