one and all!
warren
morgan
elbro
american crusader
steve harkonnen
farmer
my father (army, korean war)(deceased)
my stepfather (u.s.a.f., active during the fifties)(alive and kickin')
and of course to all those i've failed to remember and never knew, who stood the test in order that the free world is indeed free and remains so! G-d bless you and keep you all!
feel free to pay tribute to the vet of your choice here today or anyday.
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My late- Army, as sole surviving son he wasn't sent to Vietnam
My Dad-USAF WWII, Korean, Cuban missle Crisis
My late's Dad-USAF, shot down over Ploestri, Rom. WWII
Several ancestors on both sides of the Civil War
My Uncle Stan- US Navy pilot
tmw
Thank you, Nanc! :)
My husband, Retired Warrant Officer 3. Vietnam.
Our friend, Sgt. Denton. Died in Vietnam.
My partner, Old Soldier. Retired Warrant Officer 5. Vietnam.
Nanc, off topic. I'm going to post that comment you left at my place. I'll leave you a link. I'll put it up as an Update on the Rangel post.
thank you, gayle - i thought what mr. smith had to say was quite telling.
and give my thanks to all the veterans in your life!
Thanks to all who served,esp the 3 in my family, and shame on all the cowards who ran.
Thank you gentleman one and all for your service to our country if you're now reading this. We are free because of you.
Special thanks to my dad Mike for his service in the Korean War. He's still one Hell of a man!
To my uncles Dave and Maury who saw combat in WWII in Europe and the Pacific islands. And the Dominican Republic fighting communist guerillas. But that never happened. :-)Both deceased, G-d bless and keep you both!
To my uncle Jerry who fought his way up the boot of Italy against the Nazis. He's still a prince of a guy.
Most of all to the young man who was laid to rest here in Jacksonville who was KIA in Afghanistan. The Westboro Baptists tried to disrupt his funeral. Patriots outnumbered those animals 50-1 and thanked the family for their sacrifice, while protecting the services.
Thanks a lot nanc!
Morgan
morgan - one of the patriot guards used to post at fpm - went by the name of fredc i believe - a great guy also - i heard this morning on the news that most of the guys in the patriot guard motorcycle club were in the military. G-d keep them all as they honor our fallen across this great nation.
this is their link if anybody would like to give them a thanks:
http://patriotguard.org/
they are the minutemen of our fallen soldiers and serve as escorts and pall bearers across the nation at a moment's notice. thanks for reminding me of them.
*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-
Remembering All Our Vets
God Bless our Vets
One and All
*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_
Have a God
Blessed Weekend
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My paternal grandfather (3rd Armored Division, Signal Corps, Europe World War II)
My maternal grandfather (US Navy, submarine in the Pacific, engineer, World War II)
My great uncle (US Navy, submarine commander, Naval Intelligence, CIA, Cold War [retired 1990])
My uncle (US Army, Vietnam)
My oldest brother (US Navy, fire controlman, Desert Storm - currently serving)
My older brother (US Navy, nuclear machinist mate, Desert Storm - currently serving)
My buddy from high school (US Army, Special Forces, Desert Storm and Op: Iraqi Freedom)
My neighbor's son (US Marines, Iraq)
and anyone else I missed...
Thank you all for everything.
To my scottish grandpa who served in the US Army air corp as an bomber navigator protecting the Florida Keys.
I feel terrible that I forgot to mention my brother, Air Force Officer 1990-1996 and my sister, retired Army Major and Desert Storm veteran. She was also the base commander at Bremerhaven, Germany for three years. Don't ask what happened to me. :-)
Morgan
AND I FEEL TERRIBLE THAT I DIDN'T MENTION OUR KUHNKAT!
dear Lord - what is wrong with me?
thank you kuhnkat.
morgan - fyi - batya at fpm had very kind words for you on the third article, veteran's day reference.
guess i needed a nap BEFORE i got up this morning!
Jingoist-You went into the Navy!
Nanc- A girls sleep over, you did need a nap, before you got up!
tmw
Nanc thank you so much for that information! What a pickmeup that was. Just two hours ago I broke two damn toes watching the Gator's game as I was literally running to the fridge for a cold one! What an idiot! Someone must have moved the couch. :-) That was really nice.
Morgan
My Father (there's tribute to him at the bottom of my blog)
WW ll Vet-USN: U.S.S.McIntyre.
My Uncle who was in the Battle of the Bulge.
My other Uncle who was stationed in the Pacific theater on a PT boat.
My brother who was in the Vietnam war; The Microwave Division.
My nephew; who just joined the Marines this past summer. He wants to be a sniperman.
Semper Fi!
FTGF!
morgan-morgan-morgan-i've been saying it year after year - FOOTBALL is a dangerous sport! now, you know what i'm talking about...
ftgf - funny how we ALL know or have known someone who has served - six degrees of separation is not all that strange if you think about it.
thank G-d for our military!
FTGF why'd were they called the microwave division? Were they intel guys with tall antennas? My interest is piqued.
Morgan
morgan - perhaps they did everything ten times faster?!?
i'd recommend you go ask him at his site and report back here!
i recommend everyone visiting go to ftgf's site and see the powerful tribute to our veterans he has made. good job.
Beamish do either of your brothers know a Senior or Master Chief Nuke Machinists Mate named Klaus? It's a small community and he was my boot camp company commander in San Diego. What a kick ass guy he was! I was the RLPO and there's a chance he would know me. We were a drill company and become quite adept at airplane push-ups! LOL!
Morgan
I second that...
THANK YOU VETERANS!!!!!!!!!!
Even Kuhnkat!
Haa haa haaaaa haaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ELBRO? if you stop by - comments are not working at your blog - either that or you've finally succeeded in banning me...
Yes that's true nanc.
We need the WW ll mentality today.
I just wanted you to know i enabled comment mod at my blog, your comment is posted now.
Thanks for stopping by!
FTGF!
soooooo, it is you ftgf, who have banned me from elbro's?
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
there is honestly no reason to thank me, ftgf - i've barely saved face in the last fifty years...
Oh, yes morgan! It was a communication and radar detection division. Back then microwave technologies were just begining to be used and developed. It was highly classified.
My brother went on to be a Chemical Engineer.
FTGF!
yeah right nanc, lol
That's what I thought. Thanks for telling me about it.
Morgan
morgan - if you come back - batya is trying to post here, but had some trouble it seems - cannot understand that as she posted here before.
p.s. and another thing - your stubborn friend, johnnymac, has me lmho at fpm veteran's day article - go see all the comments and you'll see what i'm talking about - he is focused - i'll give him that!
Nanc that's understandable believe it or not. I had to add you and DONAL and the whole gang to my "favorites" bar at the top of my screen because it was miserable to google to your sites. Even now MZ's site takes forever to come up and Brookes comments are next to impossible for me to get on. Which is a shame because she's very talented and interesting as you know. Jm has told me about this.
Morgan
morgan - do you scan disk and defrag on a regular basis? sometimes that helps, especially if you have a teenager in the house. also reset your internet options history to one day instead of the standard. you can also keep your internet files cleaned out there. i've had my own p.c. problems in the last few months, but have hopefully rectified them by taking these actions along with others.
i've put my order in for a new p.c. - i want a mac! but they're quite spendy and i'm not.
you're right on with brooke - probably one of the very best small blogs out in the www - she could be a michelle malkin one of these days if she keeps it up. and aow, of course.
Morgan,
It is indeed a small community. I'll have to ask him next time I holler at him. He's in San Diego now.
Nanc,
If you get a Mac I get to tease you about owning a Crapple.
Those we send to fight
Because we believe it is right
We should respect enough to them allow to win
Anything less is a tragic sin
If we pledge to save a nation
We should turn and leave them them to face damnation
If we pledge to bring liberty
We should never accept anything but Victory.
Thank you for this post.
It is an extremely nice gesture.
My Grandfather and my uncle fought in World War II.
My uncle was a pilot on the Burma Road. He has GREAT war stories.
My father fought in Vietnam and is a retired colonel.
I got a lot of grief when I joined the Coast Guard instead of the Army but it was something I had wanted to do since I was a kid. If it had been a time of war I might have done differently.
Gayle..your husband was a warrant officer?
The electronic shop I worked at in Miami was run by a warrant officer.
They are known for being no nonsense tough professionals.
to my late father - US Army served in Germany during the Berlin Crisis
my grandfather - served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during WWII...USS Thorn and USS Springfield
My brothers were both in the USN...STG2 diver and personellman
My sisters father in law - passed away in a motorcycle accident last year...USN Vietnam war veteran...Aviation Ordnanceman
my uncle - USN Corpsman
nanc didn't you serve?
I will check into my comments...Brooke was able to comment
one of my good friends lost their son in Iraq last year
Jeremiah Robinson...son of Amy and Burt
no, i didn't serve.
i was in administrative end of law enforcement.
nanc OT sorry I think I fixed the comments can you try it to see if it works
Nanc, that was a good patriotic post.
My two older brothers, myself and my oldest sister were all in the Marines.
My 3 kids are all vets also,.. my son and oldest daughter,....A.F., youngest daughter, Army.
The oldest daughter retired with 21 years.
So, we all honor the military.
thanks elbro! i thought perhaps i said something to offend you...
i remember you telling me about your daughter, tazz and to you:
BOOYAH!
long time - no see.
so when will we see your smiling face in arkansas again?
Better late than never...
I managed to sleep all day.
To all those who have served, especially those np longer with us and those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
warren said:
"I managed to sleep all day."
nanc said:
"no wonder you look so purty!"
nanc...you were kidding right? I mean you'd have to work a lot harder than that to offend me...
I'm thankful for the opportunity to have served my country but what Warren said...to those who have paid the ultimate...
we owe you a debt
elbro said:
"I mean you'd have to work a lot harder than that to offend me..."
so now you're calling me incapable?!?
hehehe!
Wow! Great post nanc.
Thankyou, all who served and all who support America's veterans!
As usual, I'm late. Ugh!
Thank you to my late Uncle Bill and my late Uncle Walter, who served in WWI. The wounds they sustained were permanently disabling.
Thank you to my late cousins Claude, Kenneth, and Osborn--all of whom served on the front lines in WWII.
Thank you to all the vets at my local VFW.
Thank you to my husband, who served stateside during the Vietnam War. The Army gave him his tour of duty in this area. The result: We got married!
Blogger burped and doubleposted my comment, so I deleted the duplicate.
Thank you to all of our Vets, past, present and future!
Nanc, still planning to move to Ar., but it's going to take some time.
Tazz is planning on moving to AR too? KEWL! We'll have a good old time!
Thank you all vets!
tmw
tazz is from here - and his brilliant son and daughter-in-law live here. he and his son are musicians.
nanc said
so now you're calling me incapable?!?
Okay you're incapable.
Hello nanc,I've finally made it over to your blog,howdy! In honor of our vets I'd like to honor the memory of my late-father-in-law,Jack Scharffenbegger,4th. Marine Division(WW2) He saw action on the island of Saipan Tinnian and Iwo Jima. He was wounded on Iwo and made out of there alive,and also,the only surviving uncle of my childhood,my uncle Fred,who served with the 84th. Infantry Div. (WW2) he was wounded during The Battle of the Bulge(Dec.44 Jan.45)as well as my late grandfather John McDonald,(WW1,U.S. Army) he also was lucky to make it home. Remember folks,without the Brave;there is no Land of the Free. Johnnymac
Hear Hear! (lifting a glass of Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat American brewed Beer). God Bless each and every one of our Great Veterans!
so true, j.m. thank you for finally making it over here!
thank you too, flo - that was a long date i'd say - don't wear your honeymoon out before you tie the knot!
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