Happy Veteran's Day!!

[reeshy]

This is to all my fellow vets on the board!!! I still remember and honor the sacrifices that veterans have made in behalf of our country both in war and in peace!!!!

To the rest of you slackers...enjoy your day off, courtesy of me!!!!

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This message was edited by reeshy on 11-11-03 @ 8:30 AM

[Mike Teacher]

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Reeshy,

I'm not a veteran but the pilot above is, and he's flying around heaven now in one of those things, thanks Dad!

I can't even imagine what these guys go through; all I know is I never met a man more anti-war...

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To the rest of you slackers...enjoy your day off, courtesy of me!!!!

Does this mean I can go home now?

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[Reephdweller]

I hope all those who have risked and given their lives for our freedom have a Happy Veteran's Day.

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This thread made me search around for some pictures on the net and i wound up finding some info on my Granfathers brother Everett who died in a tank at the Battle Of The Bulge. His other brother Arthur served under Patton and has two Purple Hearts along with a Silver Star that Patton himself pinned on him. Uncle Arthur was up from Florida recently and we all got together for dinner.


Everett A. Clark
Private First Class, U.S. Army
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63rd Infantry Battalion, 11th Armored Division
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: January 1, 1945
Buried at: Plot B Row 10 Grave 51
Luxembourg American Cemetery
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Awards: Purple Heart


THANKS to all Veterans!
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[TheMojoPin]

I know of two twice-removed cousins killed in Vietnam, my uncle Jeff who was a radio operator in 'Nam, my great uncle Dick who went ashore at Normandy (the one who found he had breast cancer four days after he got home to the States), his twin brother who was shot down and killed over the English Channel flying for the Canadian air force before America even got into it, my grandfather over in the Pacific as a chief petty officer on a PT boat...oh yeah, and General George McClellan.

DAMN YOU, MCLELLAN!!!

Other than him, show some damn respect.

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[JohnnyCash]

My father was in Korea. To him and all the Vets on the board happy Veterans day.http://www.eduplace.com/ss/wtp/graphics_new/wtp_gr.flag.jpg

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[Patches]

Well I didn't get the day off, but thanks anyway!

Thank a vet today!

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STANDING OVATION FOR ALL THE VETERANS!

We all owe our veterans undying gratitude and devotion.
It matters not whether they are a supply clerk or hotshot fighter pilot.

Those of us who have not served have a special duty to honor all veterans, past and present.

In a little while, I shall be going up to Quantico National Cemetery to put flowers and flags on the graves of some warriors I grew up with.

I encourage all to find some way to express your gratitude to any veterans you know or come across today.

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[Heavy]

I didnt get a day off, or double time for holiday and I'm a vet in a union

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[Mike Teacher]

apologies,

nothing here, it was troubling though, seeing that no one has posted here in a while and its going way down on the active list!!!!!

did you know there are countries around the globe where posting in a forum like this might be a crime punishable by death. And not the death by courts, the disappear in the middle of the night kind.

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[TheMojoPin]

When I lived in Paris my dad made the rest of the family and I go to the Veterans' Day memorial outside of the city. It was held at a cemetary where one of the major battles of WW1 was held. Joint ceremony by the Americans and French. I remember really hating that I had to go and then being really glad I did afterwards.

I'm REALLY annoyed I can't remember which forest it was...I saved one of the shells from the shots fired by the soldiers that day and my dad had the date and place inscribed on it, but I can't seem to find it right now...damn.

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Happy Veterans day, Reeshy, coming from another vet.

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[HBox]

I am in the really odd position of having two grandfathers who fought on opposite sides. My grandfather on my father's side fought in the Pacific while my grandfather on my mother's side fought for the Italians. My Mom never got much out of him about what he did, other than by the end of the war he was a German prisoner.

My father was drafted to fight in Vietnam, but when he showed up for enlistment, they found a very serious heart condition. So luckily or unluckily, however you look at it, he didn't end up serving.

Happy veterans day to all the vets. The really are no words...........

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[A.J.]

I'm REALLY annoyed I can't remember which forest it was...

Ardennes? Argonne? Belleau Wood?

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[El Mudo]

I'm REALLY annoyed I can't remember which forest it was...I saved one of the shells from the shots fired by the soldiers that day and my dad had the date and place inscribed on it, but I can't seem to find it right now...damn.



Im gonna assume that is the Argonne, since that's where the biggest American offensive of WW1 took place, and there is a gigantic Cemetery there for the Americans and French that the Germans didn't mess with when the came back in the 40's...The Ardennes is farther north or west I believe, and there were only Marines engaed at Belleau Wood (or "Marine Brigade Wood") but there is a big cemetery there too...

I'd just like to give props to all in my fam that were vets, my Uncle Gary in 'Nam, my Grandpappy in Korea, my other Grandfather in the Pacific(the Japs cost him his hearing at Leyte), my Uncles Mike and Marvin with the Fightin' 29th Division wounded in Normandy, and my ancestor Marcus Mauck, twice wounded veteran of C Company 33d Virginia Infantry of Old Jacks Foot Cavalry,and survivor of Elmira and Point Lookout prisons....

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[El Mudo]

I'm REALLY annoyed I can't remember which forest it was...I saved one of the shells from the shots fired by the soldiers that day


FYI, did you know they still get about 15-30 deaths a year up in Ypres by Belgium from unexploded WW1 ordinance? Also, the British up there built all these huge mines under the German lines filled with this stuff called Ammonal, which is supposed to be super explosive, and use that in an offensive, but they decided not to use two of them and just left them down there. A lightning storm set off one in the 50's or 60's i believe and scared the hell out of everyone but no one was hurt, and the other one is still down there to this day, Ammonal and everything...

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[mdr55]

Happy belated Veteran's Day.

It's a shame that the governent can find all this money to fund a war but have to cut corners providing medical/health care for those who served in them. It shouldn't be that way. God bless all the Veterans past and present. And as for that college football player who said, "I'm a soldier" shit...shut the freak up you pompous asswipe.

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[TheMojoPin]

and there were only Marines engaed at Belleau Wood (or "Marine Brigade Wood") but there is a big cemetery there too...

That was it! Thanks, AJ and Mudo. It was the Marines that clinched it...looking at the photos it was almost all Marines at the ceremony.

FYI, did you know they still get about 15-30 deaths a year up in Ypres by Belgium from unexploded WW1 ordinance?

Doesn't surpise me. My family and I visited WW1 and WW2 battle sites all over Europe and that seemed to be the running theme. If you're ever there and you wanna try, you CAN spelunk (Not legally, of course) in parts of the Maginot Line. Really fascinating...

Reminds me of my favorite of these trips, when we went up to Normandy for 5 days. It was right before Thanksgiving, and there was NOBODY else there. The days we spent on the beaches were just gray with a constant light rain, pretty much just like the day of the invasion. It was so awe-inspiring to see the beaches and imagine what happen. Really makes you appreciate the sheer size of the operation, and how nothing like it will ever truly happen again. There are still ladning craft and parts from the "floating bases" they set up afterwards embedded into the beach, and massive craters from the artillery pounding the Allies gave the landscape. Most of them were still roped off because of the danger of unexploded ordinance.

Pont Du Hoc was easily the most impressive and emotional. The Americans had to scale up a giant cliff under enemy fire only to find most of the big guns they were supposed to take out had been removed or not installed to begin with.

I know it's fashionable to bash the French, but seeing all these sights really shows how much they do or at least did appreciate what we and the other Allies did for them. They care for the memorials and battle sites themselves with the utmost care and they're tremendously emotional to visit.

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[El Mudo]

I know it's fashionable to bash the French, but seeing all these sights really shows how much they do or at least did appreciate what we and the other Allies did for them. They care for the memorials and battle sites themselves with the utmost care and they're tremendously emotional to visit.



I believe the American Battlefield Monuments Commission takes care of the Cemeteries....
but im sure the French people still like us, just not their worthless politicians...

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[TheMojoPin]

They do, but they mostly hire local French workers. Plenty of the memorials, battlefields, cemetaries and monuments have been designed, built and cared for by the French. It's not something huge, but hey, it was done.

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