Veterans Day Here is what you are going to do.
Nov 6, 2013 21:17:02 #
Veterans Day November 11th , Here is what you are going to do.
We are losing Americas greatest generation World War Two Veterans at about 650 a day. These are the men and women who sacrificed everything to make the freedom and prosperity you enjoy today possible. They are the greatest generation because they came together as a nation undivided and conquered the evil of Nazi Germany, the Fascism of Italy, and the Imperialism of Japan. Maybe you were sleeping in history class and do not know how great they were and the sacrifices they made. Women took over the factories so the men could go to war. Food, clothes, cars, tires, gasoline, everything was rationed so the war could be supported. The soldiers, sailors and airmen fought under horrific conditions and faced impossible odds and fought on.
So go find a World War Two Veteran this Veterans Day and let them know you appreciate what they made possible for you. Also anyone of that generation, because it was not only those in the service but the whole country was serving in the war effort. So thank your Mother, and Father, or Grandmother and Grandfather, or the old folks down the street. Put down the iPad for one day and show that you care.
We are losing Americas greatest generation World War Two Veterans at about 650 a day. These are the men and women who sacrificed everything to make the freedom and prosperity you enjoy today possible. They are the greatest generation because they came together as a nation undivided and conquered the evil of Nazi Germany, the Fascism of Italy, and the Imperialism of Japan. Maybe you were sleeping in history class and do not know how great they were and the sacrifices they made. Women took over the factories so the men could go to war. Food, clothes, cars, tires, gasoline, everything was rationed so the war could be supported. The soldiers, sailors and airmen fought under horrific conditions and faced impossible odds and fought on.
So go find a World War Two Veteran this Veterans Day and let them know you appreciate what they made possible for you. Also anyone of that generation, because it was not only those in the service but the whole country was serving in the war effort. So thank your Mother, and Father, or Grandmother and Grandfather, or the old folks down the street. Put down the iPad for one day and show that you care.
Nov 6, 2013 21:23:51 #
thegrover wrote:
Veterans Day November 11th , Here is what you are ... (show quote)
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Nov 6, 2013 21:28:29 #
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Agreed 100%. We should also write the President, thanking him for keeping the memorials open to the Honor Flight members during the shutdown.
Agreed 100%. We should also write the President, thanking him for keeping the memorials open to the Honor Flight members during the shutdown.
Nov 6, 2013 22:08:03 #
Wabbit
Loc: Arizona Desert
thegrover wrote:
Veterans Day November 11th , Here is what you are ... (show quote)
Well said Doc .....
Nov 6, 2013 22:42:10 #
PrairieSeasons wrote:
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Agreed 100%. We should also write the President, thanking him for keeping the memorials open to the Honor Flight members during the shutdown.
Agreed 100%. We should also write the President, thanking him for keeping the memorials open to the Honor Flight members during the shutdown.
Please lets keep this topic free of discord out of respect for our Veterans.
Veterans day is not the time or place for discontent.
Nov 6, 2013 23:11:36 #
thegrover wrote:
Please lets keep this topic free of discord out of respect for our Veterans.
Veterans day is not the time or place for discontent.
Veterans day is not the time or place for discontent.
I see huge irony in that request, but I will honor it.
Nov 6, 2013 23:44:48 #
PrairieSeasons wrote:
I see huge irony in that request, but I will honor it.
Thank you.
Nov 7, 2013 11:33:15 #
jjwright71
Loc: Lubbock,Tx
PrairieSeasons wrote:
excuse me where were you when ol"nagubayer was in this federal officer officers face on closing the memorials and saying she would arrest their ass if they crossed the line ,they were the only federal people working ,all other people were furlowed in the national parks ,obummer did it deliberatly!,wonder if the poeple working got paid that were "guarding the memorials"???? HAR!:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Agreed 100%. We should also write the President, thanking him for keeping the memorials open to the Honor Flight members during the shutdown.
Agreed 100%. We should also write the President, thanking him for keeping the memorials open to the Honor Flight members during the shutdown.
Nov 7, 2013 11:39:59 #
jjwright71 wrote:
excuse me where were you when ol"nagubayer was in this federal officer officers face on closing the memorials and saying she would arrest their ass if they crossed the line ,they were the only federal people working ,all other people were furlowed in the national parks ,obummer did it deliberatly!,wonder if the poeple working got paid that were "guarding the memorials"???? HAR!
Apparently sarcasm eludes you.
Nov 7, 2013 11:58:26 #
jjwright71 wrote:
excuse me where were you when ol"nagubayer was in this federal officer officers face on closing the memorials and saying she would arrest their ass if they crossed the line ,they were the only federal people working ,all other people were furlowed in the national parks ,obummer did it deliberatly!,wonder if the poeple working got paid that were "guarding the memorials"???? HAR!
Please take this to another topic. This is about Veterans Day.
Nov 7, 2013 13:23:26 #
thegrover wrote:
Please take this to another topic. This is about Veterans Day.
From one Vietnam Vet to all vets, I say have a happy veterans day and thank you as well. And to the Vietnam vets, I say welcome home.
Nov 7, 2013 13:56:17 #
While I will respect your idea of keeping the subject what only what you want it to be,the reason I served was to be able to voice my opinion when I felt it was necessary,but I do thank all my fellow veterens and remember a lot of restaurants do give us a free meal,on veterens day thank you ahead of time Applebee's.
Nov 7, 2013 14:06:32 #
Here at the Cumberland County Historical & Genealogical Museums (Illinois) we make documentary films honoring our military veterans. We're currently posting edited video clips of the more than 25 films we've made. For a sample of our attempts at honoring our military veteran men and women, please visit us at:
https://www.facebook.com/historicalsociety.greenupill
https://www.facebook.com/historicalsociety.greenupill
Nov 7, 2013 16:18:40 #
j.erwin.brown wrote:
Here at the Cumberland County Historical & Genealogical Museums (Illinois) we make documentary films honoring our military veterans. We're currently posting edited video clips of the more than 25 films we've made. For a sample of our attempts at honoring our military veteran men and women, please visit us at:
https://www.facebook.com/historicalsociety.greenupill
https://www.facebook.com/historicalsociety.greenupill
Uh, could you post it someplace other than Facebook?
Nov 7, 2013 17:20:30 #
Amen & Amen -
A great post....As an old man of age 73...I have lived a wonderful life of Freedom on the backs of my that Generation.
I have one very Vivid Memory as a three or four year old child around 1943/44 of riding on a train from North Georgia to Detroit, Mich.
The train was filled with Soldiers and I can remember how wonderful they were to me as a child....as I recall I got sick on all the Cracker Jacks they were giving me, playing and entertaining me...
I often wonder how many made it back home to their young child and Families.
I Thank God for all of them their Families and all the Ladies who picked up the rivet guns, etc., and produced the war materials...too often they are forgotten.
God Bless all of them and God Bless America, in spite of all the things many of us thing are wrong....America is still the greatest Nation on earth and a Bastion of Freedoms...
tom
A great post....As an old man of age 73...I have lived a wonderful life of Freedom on the backs of my that Generation.
I have one very Vivid Memory as a three or four year old child around 1943/44 of riding on a train from North Georgia to Detroit, Mich.
The train was filled with Soldiers and I can remember how wonderful they were to me as a child....as I recall I got sick on all the Cracker Jacks they were giving me, playing and entertaining me...
I often wonder how many made it back home to their young child and Families.
I Thank God for all of them their Families and all the Ladies who picked up the rivet guns, etc., and produced the war materials...too often they are forgotten.
God Bless all of them and God Bless America, in spite of all the things many of us thing are wrong....America is still the greatest Nation on earth and a Bastion of Freedoms...
tom
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