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11-11-2007, 01:06 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: west coast
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I offer a revered mental curtsy to all veterans. May blessings find you wherever you may travel.
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11-11-2007, 02:17 AM
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das wetter ist sehr kalt!
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: San Antonio, TX
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To each veteran: Thank You! You are all who make America so special.
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11-11-2007, 09:16 AM
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Ak-sar-beN ~ another time and place ;-)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: LEFT of the white house
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 Thanks you Rance for your service! |
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11-11-2007, 10:58 AM
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Flirting ? ME ? Always !!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Rahway N.J
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11-11-2007, 03:31 PM
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Freedom Is Not Free!
Status:
"Smiles and laughter are contagious, try it sometime =)"
(set 18 hours ago)
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: north central Ohio, UNFORTUNATELY!
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Hay mjb68,
Thank you so much for the photo of the SeaBee Monument. Not to many people know who we are. 
I am a retired U.S.Navy SeaBee of 21 years, Equipment Operator First Class Petty Officer. And I am proud to have served this great country of ours and the people who live within her borders. 
THANK YOU ALL! |
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11-11-2007, 03:43 PM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: OKC, OK
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Thanks To All Who Have Served
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11-11-2007, 03:45 PM
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"status" from Dale Carnegie
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: a step from New Brunswick...
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I shared this link in the November 11 thread, but I wanted to share it all with you as well.
Please take a few minutes, scroll down the page, and watch the two videos.
Maine Remembrance Wreaths Decorate Veterans Cemeteries |
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11-11-2007, 03:53 PM
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Listening to The Voices
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Great State of Arkansas
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Salutes to you all who gave your best, and to those who gave their all...we appreciate you. A special thank you to my friends who served in Viet Nam...
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11-11-2007, 05:59 PM
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Go climb your family tree
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Leland, NC
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WHAT IS A VET?
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.
Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg – or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.
Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.
You can't tell a vet just by looking.
What is a vet?
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL.
He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat -but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other’s backs.
He is the parade - riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being -a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You.
That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".
Remember November 11th is Veterans Day
"It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protestor to burn the flag."
Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
Liz, USAR Signal Corp 1982-1984
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11-11-2007, 06:24 PM
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Mostly Conservative
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: NY
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We cannot thank our Veterans enough but we should never forget their families as well. They sacrifice so much seeing their sons and daughters go into service. Here's to them all!!!
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