Let's Thank Our Vets......all of them (trip, museums, married)

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CHICAGO, Illinois, November 8th, 2009. Service members from the Chicago area unfurl a flag during a pre-game
salute to veterans at Solider Field in Chicago. The U.S. Naval Academy Women's Glee Club performed the national
anthem and pilots from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 211 based in Oceana, Virginia, performed a flyover. U.S. Navy
photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Rhonda Burke. 091108-N-0606B-001.

Giant photo! Just could not come to shrinking it to 800 pixels wide like I normally do....

Rich

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates speaks at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle ride on the National Mall May
29th, 2011. An estimated 250,000 motorcycles participate in the weekend observance, which has evolved into a
demonstration of patriotism for soldiers and veterans from all wars. DOD photo by Fred W. Baker III:

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A 1940 photo of former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Albert Eye, a World War II veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, stands
on the beach near Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. U.S. Army photo. 101207-A-8843B-008:

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Veteran's Day Parade - From left, Petty Officer 1st Class Nancy O'Reilly, Petty Officer 3rd Class Davis, Petty Officer 1st
Class Aric Sidell and Petty Officer 3rd Class Sergio Sanchez serve as the color guard from Navy Operational Support
Center Quincy during a Veterans Day parade November 11th, 2010, in Quincy, Massachusetts. U.S. Navy photo by
Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric Dietrich. 101111-N-1317D-093

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375th Air Mobility Wing PA - A Korean War veteran salutes as the Pledge of Allegiance is recited during a Veterans
Day ceremony at the Veteran's Memorial Fountain in Belleville, Illinois, November 11th, 2010. U.S. Air Force photo by
Staff Sergeant Brian J. Valencia. 101111-F-7660V-027

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Bill Myers holds a photo of his first unit assigned after enlisting - the 168th Service Battery, Colorado Army National
Guard - out of Golden, Colorado. Myers had a 35-year military career as a fighter pilot, first in the U.S. Army Air
Corps, then in the U.S. Air Force, including service in three wars. Photo by Sergeant Aaron Rognstad.

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NEW YORK - Coast Guard Cadet Christopher Salinas leads members of the Coast Guard Academy band down 5th
Avenue during the Veterans Day Parade in Manhattan November 11th, 2009. The annual Veterans Day Parade draws
thousands of spectators who watch as Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and Airmen as they march through
Manhattan. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Annie Elis. 091111-G-4899E-162

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U.S. World War II veteran Tom Selleys, left front, carries the American flag along U.S. Route 81 in North Dakota
November 11th, 2010, during a 29-mile Veterans Day march in honor of U.S. war veterans. He was joined by former
U.S. Airman Terri Schwartz, right, and Hope Yongsmith, a doctor at the Fargo Veterans Affairs Medical Center. U.S.
Air Force photo by Senior Master Sergeant David H. Lipp. 101111-F-0681L-225:

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Max Schneider, a Korean War veteran, talks to one of the Marines from the unit that he served in during the Korean
War at a Korean War veteran's reunion held September 16th, 2008. Schneider was in Company C, Battalion Landing
Team, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment which served in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. 081106-M-4655G-015

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A time to remember - Commemoration of a true veteran. Charleston, South Carolina, January 23rd, 2009,
Members of the Patriot Guard were on hand to pay their respects at the funeral for Major Marion R. McCown Jr. Photo
by Corporal Christopher Zahn. 146625