Let's Thank Our Vets......all of them (member, Vietnam, great)

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Lieutenant Commander Robin Lindsay embraces her family after returning to Naval Station Norfolk Virginia aboard the Military
Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort completed a seven-week deployment to the U.S. Southern
Command area of responsibility to provide medical care in Haiti as part of Operation Unified Response. The Comfort surgical
team performed more than 800 surgeries. Comfort will return to home port in Baltimore Maryland after a short port visit in
Norfolk. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian Goodwin. March 13, 2010.

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Josephine Swift talks to fellow World War II women pilots who flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) at
a wreath-laying and remembrance ceremony to honor all 1,102 of them at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington,
Virginia, March 9th, 2010. Courtesy DoD, photo by Linda Hosek.

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Frank C. Willetto, a U.S. Marine Corps World War II veteran, stands in front of the Marine Corps War Memorial statue
before the wreath laying ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima at Arlington,
Virginia, February 19th, 2010. Willeto is a surviving Navajo code talker who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima. U.S.
Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Alvin Williams.

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Command Sergeant Major Lawrence Wilson, the highest-ranking enlisted soldier of Multi-National Forces – Iraq, accompanies
Sergeant First Class Mike Schlitz, a wounded warrior returning to Iraq as part of Operation Proper Exit, December 29th, 2009, at
Camp Ramadi, Iraq. The program, in its third installment, returns severely-wounded veterans to the battlefield where they were
wounded to help them find psychological closure. Courtesy U.S. Army, photo by Specialist Michael J. MacLeod.

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Wreaths adorn the graves of veterans during Wreaths Across America at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Littleton, Colorado.
December 14th, 2009. Eighty-seven volunteers from Buckley Air Force Base joined Civil Air Patrol members and volunteers from
Schriever and Peterson air force bases and the Denver Metropolitan Area for a day of remembrance. Courtesy U.S. Air Force,
photo by Master Sergeant Steven Clark.

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Daniel Hernandez of Galveston, Texas, who fought in Vietnam 40 years ago, poses next to a wreath lain before the Vietnam
Veteran’s Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., on Veterans Day, November 11th, 2009. Showing in the background are some of
the more than 58,000 names of fallen troops etched into the granite partitions of the monument. Photo courtesy DoD, photo by
John Kruzel.

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U.S. Marine Corps colonel Mark J. Desens, commanding officer of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force 26,
and Navy Commander F. Curtis Jones, commanding officer of USS New York (LPD 21), salute as the colors rise at the
Eternal Light Monument in New York City November 11th, 2009, during the 90th annual New York City Veterans Day
parade. The parade serves as a reminder of the service and sacrifice of the nation's veterans. Courtesy U.S. Marine
Corps, photo by Corporal Jesse J. Johnson.

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Veterans Day Ceremony at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial, Albuquerque, November 11th, 2009. Photo courtesy
Rich Sanchez.

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Sergeant First Class Lopez at the Veterans Day Ceremony Presented by the United Veterans Council of New Mexico,
Kirtland Air Force Base and the City of Albuquerque. The ceremony was at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial,
Albuquerque. November 11th, 2009. Photo courtesy Rich Sanchez.

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New York City, New York, United States - Marines from Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 26 belt out an
ooh-rah during the opening ceremony for the New York City Veterans Day parade November 11th, 2009. The unit
was formed to showcase Marine Corps personnel, aircraft, vehicles and equipment while docked at Pier 88 for the
USS New York commissioning. Official Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Danielle M. Bacon.