Let's Thank Our Vets......all of them (2013, homestead, clothes)

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USACAPOC(A) Remembers the Fallen - WWII Veteran, Sergeant Major Raymond Sylvester, receives a gift from Colonel Terrell
Parker at the American cemetery in Normandy, France on June 6th, 2011. Parker is one of 75 Paratroopers from the U.S. Army Civil
Affairs and Psychological Operations Command which is spearheading Task Force Normandy, a multinational force of U.S., U.K.,
French, and German Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen in a combined effort to remember and celebrate the 67th Anniversary of the D-Day
operations.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Felix R. Fimbres
U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command
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Originally Posted by DanoLoco

I can go through the entire thread and read all the stories to each and every individual picture you posted Poncho, but 10 pages will do for me. Thanks for the contribution!

Thanks. I've tried to do one a day, but... Sometimes I don't have the time.

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Back to work: hand amputee deploys to set example for wounded warriors - PATROL BASE FIRES, Helmand province.
Sergeant Ricardo Ramirez, a combat replacement for 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, wades through an irrigation canal to move
into a night observation post in Sangin, Afghanistan, August 5th, 2011. In February of 2006, Ramirez was wounded in action while
serving in Iraq with 3rd Bn., 5th Marines and two years later became the first hand-amputee to re-enlist in the Marines Corps. Since
then the multiple-tour combat veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan has served as an urban warfare instructor, attended the
pre-sniper course at division schools and stayed close to his infantry roots.

Object Name: 110805-M-VI905-027
Special Instructions: Released, 1st Lt. Timothy Irish, Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, via DVIDS
Credit: U.S. Marines
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Medal of Honor recipient Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer tours Ground Zero, Sept. 21 - Sergeant Dakota Meyer, the first living
Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions since Vietnam, toured the National September 11 Memorial & Museum after
speaking at a ceremony, here, September 21st, 2011. During his speech he told the audience of mostly veterans, firefighters, police
and construction workers, "People have been calling me a hero a lot lately, but you are the real heroes. If this is what being a hero
feels like, you can have it." Sergeant Meyer has a web site at: http://www.dakotameyer.com

Object Name: 110921-M-4003C-047
Special Instructions: cleared for public release by Capt. Eric Tausch, Division of Public Affairs, New York Branch, via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Marines
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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451st Air Expeditionary Wing celebrates Veterans Day - Master Sergeant Brian Algeo and Major David Watts flatten the
American flag hung on the 451st Air Expeditionary Wing headquarters building at Camp Losano at Kandahar Airfield November 11th,
2011. The flag is 25 feet by 40 feet and was placed in honor of Veterans Day. Algeo and Watts are members of the 451st
Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.

Object Name: 111111-F-1322C-711
Special Instructions: Released, Senior Airman David Carbajal, 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Recognizes Veterans On The 70Th Anniversary Of The Dec. 7, 1941, Attacks On Hickam
Field - U.S. Air Force General Gary L. North, Pacific Air Forces commander, gives a speech December 7th, during the Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam remembrance ceremony in recognition of the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on the Hawaiian island of
Oahu. Airmen, their families and veterans gathered at Atterbury Circle, the site of the same flagpole that stood during the attack on
Hickam field December 7th, 1941. The ceremony was held to honor the survivors of the attacks and remember the 238 Army Air
Corps airmen who died defending Hickam Field.

Object Name: 111207-F-MQ656-027
Special Instructions: Released by Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth, Defense Media Activity Hawaii, via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Department of Defense
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Civil War reenactors march down the parade route during the 2012 Veterans Day parade in Downtown Nashville,Tennessee.
Thousands of veterans, active duty and Guardsmen took part in the event. Along the streets, people were lined up with their
American flags and other signs of support for the military. The parade was the largest in the state.

U.S. Army Photo by SSG Russell Lee Klika 118th MPAD.
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US NAVY 2013-THE BEST NAVY IN THE WOLRD - YouTube

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IRAQI FREEDOM - April 3rd, 2003, At McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), New Jersey, the US Air Force (USAF) Airmen from the 106th
Pararescue Squadron (PS), Long Island, New York, carry the flag draped casket of Master Sergeant (MSGT) Michael Maltz, who was
killed when the Pave Hawk helicopter he was aboard crashed in Afghanistan, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Object Name: 030403-F-1166S-001
Writer/Editor: R. DIAZ
Special Instructions: RELEASED.
By-line: CIV SCOTT H. SPITZER, USAF
Date Created: 20030403
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Defends Country On Second Deployment - Following in his ancestor's footsteps, Corporal Wesley Giddens is currently serving on
his second deployment. Giddens, an intelligence analyst with Regimental Combat Team 7, from Paris, Texas, is currently serving on
a year-long deployment to Afghanistan. During his deployment, Giddens obtains and formulates information to give the troops on the
ground a clearer picture of the situation.

Object Name: 131231-M-BZ222-001
Original date/time: 2012:12:31 10:00:41
Special Instructions: Released, Sgt. John Jackson, Helmand Governor's Media Center, via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Marines
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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