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(Message started by: catlind on Nov 10^th, 2006, 7:53am)

Title: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by catlind on Nov 10^th, 2006, 7:53am

who may be off work today in hono(u)r of Veteran's Day or Rememberance Day tomorrow,

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, stand silent for one minute and listen to this song and video and recite this poem.

And Terry Kelly's A Pittance of Time

http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/chief_land_staff/remembrance/English/video.asp
(just gave the link for those without highspeed)

Just found it on You Tube as well:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7phct3aKuFQ

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918 )
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

FREEDOM ISN'T FREE

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by maffumatt on Nov 10^th, 2006, 7:55am

Thank you all who served no matter where that may be, and welcome home

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by thomas on Nov 10^th, 2006, 9:50am

Thanks Cat. Now WTF happened to Matt?

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by JeffB on Nov 10^th, 2006, 10:53am

Will be having many beers for my old shipmates and for ALL who served this great country.
JeffB
USS Missouri BB-63
USS Curts FFG-38
:)

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by kcopelin on Nov 10^th, 2006, 11:18am

Thank you Cat!
For all my brothers and sisters who've served or are serving, thank you, well done, and "cheers"!
"I made it back, not everyone did, it is the inevitable cost of war, but we gave it our damnedest!" That's a quote from my dad, Lt.Col.Dean Rumbaugh, USA (deceased)served WWII, Korea and Vietnam
To you Dad, ya taught me the price of freedom is high but worth it, because the alternative is hell.
Kathy TSgt, USAF (ret)

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by BobG on Nov 10^th, 2006, 1:11pm

Thanks, Cat.

on 11/10/06 at 09:50:00, thomas wrote:

Thanks Cat. Now WTF happened to Matt?

And WTF happened to kcopelin?

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by echo on Nov 10^th, 2006, 1:20pm

Thanks Cat.

I'll raise a glass (or 3) to my fellow vets who never made it home. To those that did, and to those that are still active.

Also a special toast to my son who has been property of the US Marines for the last 5 days. I'm proud of you Nick!

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by JeffB on Nov 10^th, 2006, 1:30pm

OOOOOOOOOOOo RRRRRRRRRRaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

NICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Charlotte on Nov 10^th, 2006, 1:43pm

Thank you, those of you here who served, and thank you to all who did not come home. And to those who came home and are now gone.

Charlotte

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by tanner on Nov 10^th, 2006, 1:54pm

Thanks Cat :-*

and Nick I am going to give you the benifit of my vast wisdom ;;D

1. Never pick anything up that you didn't drop.

2. Don't be the tallest guy.

3. Stay away from the guy carrying the radio.

4. Only put your foot where some else already has.

5. Listen to the Gunnys, pretend to listen to the LT's

6. No need to go out of your way to be a hero, you already are

Now how does a chopper guy know this? The grunts told me ;)

Thanks to all who served and supported anywhere, anytime!

....Tim

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by kissmyglass on Nov 10^th, 2006, 1:55pm

Thanks Vets! [smiley=bow.gif]

hey osama [smiley=bigtiny.gif] [smiley=bigguns.gif]

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Phil L on Nov 10^th, 2006, 2:01pm

Thanks Cat!

VN 1967 - 1968. The guy standing next to the guy with
the radio. D1/35 From Duc Pho, Que Son and the
Central Highlands.

Phil L

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by JeffB on Nov 10^th, 2006, 2:02pm

on 11/10/06 at 13:54:04, tanner wrote:

Very nice, Tim.
I really like #6

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Fredmyyster on Nov 10^th, 2006, 3:52pm

Thanx to all that have served and those who are serving now! Keep your head low and come home safe !!! Godspeed.

Like others on here, i work on a military installation and proudly do so ....

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by roy21302 on Nov 10^th, 2006, 4:00pm

Thanks to all those who have served in the past and to those, from whatever nation, who are serving now. God bless and we will remember them Thank-you Roy

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by BarbaraD on Nov 10^th, 2006, 5:46pm

Thanks to all the vets -- tomorrow is YOUR day whether you're here to receive the honors or in Flanders Field. You will all be remembered.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Tata on Nov 10^th, 2006, 6:15pm

With my hands I applaud those whose hands defend our liberty.
-- Roger W. Hancock

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Jonny on Nov 10^th, 2006, 6:20pm

on 11/10/06 at 18:15:42, Tata wrote:

With my hands I applaud those whose hands defend our liberty.
-- Roger W. Hancock

What he said!!!!

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by vig on Nov 10^th, 2006, 6:20pm

a huge THANK YOU to all of you

your efforts are muCH appreciated.

welcome home!

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by purpleydog on Nov 10^th, 2006, 6:56pm

Yes, Welcome Home.

The where from isn't important. The fact you are here IS.

And bless the ones who didn't come home.

Thank You All. [smiley=bow.gif]

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by cynjeep89 on Nov 10^th, 2006, 8:31pm

Special thanks to my friend, Jeff Dement, USMC...returned home from Iraq...2 tours

MIA...Cpt. Harmon Polster, USAF :'( and Edward A. Willing, USMC :'( and to all of those who have served past and present....thank you and we love you.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Charlotte on Nov 10^th, 2006, 9:07pm

I was thinking a lot today about my friends who are or would now have been 57 or 58 - my age group. People I love and loved, my friends and school mates. I was thinking of the psychological and physical problems, the stress, the reentry into society and the problems in personal relationships, and the misisng people and damaged people and the brave courageous beutiful people. It's been a heavy day.

Charlotte

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Barry_T_Coles on Nov 10^th, 2006, 9:16pm

The Ode
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in The Winnowing Fan: Poems of the Great War in 1914. This verse, which became the Ode for the Returned and Services League, has been used in association with commemoration services in Australia since 1921.

Thank you for my freedom.
Barry

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Charlie on Nov 10^th, 2006, 11:30pm

Saw the Museum dedication today and the story about the guy that flies WWII vets to Washington for free...donations come from all over.

It's irrational not to respect military. It usually consists of the some of the best we have to offer.

Thanks kids. http://www.smileygenerator.us/community/searchsmiley/u/usaflag.gif

Charlie

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by AussieBrian on Nov 11^th, 2006, 12:44am

In Flanders' Fields inspired Moina Michael, a 49-year-old former University of Georgia professor, to mark the day forever by wearing a red poppy.

It also inspired her to write "We Shall Keep the Faith"

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.

(Yes, I'm wearing a poppy.)

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by georgej on Nov 11^th, 2006, 1:08am

Honor and respect to all who have served their country in times of war, and in times of peace. May your sacrifice bring about a better world.

Best always,

George

(brother to a 23 year Navy vet. You dam well betcha he's getting a phone call tomorrow.)

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by jon019 on Nov 11^th, 2006, 2:37am

Thanks cat for the thread,

"The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Nope, freedom aint free, and I never forget that or the folks that insure it for me and mine. Those who do what must be done. Hate war, love the warriors.

THANK YOU to all the vets here and all the vets past or present. I, we, us, OWE you!

May we not have to relive the following, NOT teach our children the false glory of war, not have to remember the dead and maimed for dieing or sacrificing in vain. Never forget it is the old men who send young men/women to die and that it better be for more than vain glory:

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. – From an address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy, June 19, 1879, known as his "War is hell" speech "

"Its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families ... It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. – From a personal letter, May 1865."

"The scenes on this field would cure anyone of war. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

Regards,

Jon

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by kayarr on Nov 11^th, 2006, 7:29am

I could never adaquately express my gratitude or repay my debt to the Veterans. Just a humble but heart felt Thank You to all you who have served our country so well.

Kimberly

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Kevin_M on Nov 11^th, 2006, 7:33am

Salute to the those who made us the home of the brave on Veterans Day.

To all for Armistice Day in Europe and Rememberance Day in the Commonwealth.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 11:20am

We have a genuine American hero living in our home now. My 81-year-old father-in-law was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps in WWII. He caught a piece of flak in the ass and got a Purple Heart for it.

He's dying of congestive heart failure and pulmonary fibrosis, too frail to attend any parades or ceremonies. I am privileged to spend every moment I can with him.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Richr8 on Nov 11^th, 2006, 11:35am

Unfortunately, I never get the day off, so I missed this one.

Yes, thanks to all Vets and Warfighterss of today.

Rich

USS America CVA 66
USS Fulton AS 11
US Navy GMT 2/ 2nd Class Diver 1971-77

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 11:40am

on 11/11/06 at 11:35:30, Richr8 wrote:

Unfortunately, I never get the day off, so I missed this one.

Yes, thanks to all Vets and Warfighterss of today.

Rich

USS America CVA 66
USS Fulton AS 11
US Navy GMT 2/ 2nd Class Diver 1971-77

Thank you, sir, for your service to our country and to your fellow man.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 11:50am

on 11/10/06 at 10:53:52, JeffB wrote:

Will be having many beers for my old shipmates and for ALL who served this great country.
JeffB
USS Missouri BB-63
USS Curts FFG-38
:)

Thank you, sir, for your service to our country and to your fellow man.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 11:52am

on 11/10/06 at 11:18:53, kcopelin wrote:

Thank you, ma'am, and to your entire family, for your service to our country and to your fellow man.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 11:53am

on 11/10/06 at 13:20:48, echo wrote:

Thank you, sir, and to your brave son, Nick, for your service to our country and to your fellow man.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 11:58am

on 11/10/06 at 13:54:04, tanner wrote:

Thank you, sir, for your service to our country and to your fellow man.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 12:00pm

on 11/10/06 at 14:01:59, Phil L wrote:

Thanks Cat!

VN 1967 - 1968. The guy standing next to the guy with
the radio. D1/35 From Duc Pho, Que Son and the
Central Highlands.

Phil L

Thank you, sir, for your service to our country and to your fellow man.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Linda_Howell on Nov 11^th, 2006, 12:09pm

And Bill, would you please tell your father-in-law thank you from all of us?

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by LeLimey on Nov 11^th, 2006, 12:17pm

on 11/11/06 at 12:09:32, Linda_Howell wrote:

And Bill, would you please tell your father-in-law thank you from all of us?

All of us on both sides of the pond Bill, they fought for my freedom too.
Helen

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Bob P on Nov 11^th, 2006, 12:38pm

Today I especially honor:

My 5th Great Grandfather - Timothy Murphy, American Revolution, Morgan's Rifle Company;
my 2nd Great Granduncle - George L. Banks, Civil War, Company C Indiana Volunteers, Congressional Medal of Honor at Missionary Ridge, TN.;
my 2nd Great Grandfather - Nathanial P. Banks, Civil War, Miller's Chicago Battery;
my Grandfather - John F. Pahlow - WW1;
and my Father - John L. Pahlow - WW2.
All gone to meet their Maker now but they stood tall when needed!

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by catlind on Nov 11^th, 2006, 1:04pm

I am giving my public thank you to my husband, MSgt Clark W Lind USAF, 23 years of proud service. Thank you for defending our freedom, and your oath to defend the constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic.

I love you, I am proud of you, I thank you.

I thank all the servicemen and women, and I thank their families for the sacrifices they make at home so our troops can do their job and know their home front is safe.

Cat

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Jonny on Nov 11^th, 2006, 1:59pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lmnpWob9PM

In Flanders Fields is one of the most famous poems about World War I, in the form of a French rondeau. It was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae on May 3, 1915 and published later that year in Punch magazine. The poppies referred to in the poem grew in profusion in Flanders Field, where war casualties had been buried and thus became a symbol of Remembrance Day. The poem is part of Remembrance Day solemnities in Allied countries which contributed troops to WWI, particularly in countries of the British Empire which did so.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by chewy on Nov 11^th, 2006, 2:06pm

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Jonny on Nov 11^th, 2006, 2:13pm

on 11/11/06 at 14:06:22, chewy wrote:

My Grandfather...LT in WW I

My Uncle.......Photograher/Spy Plane WW II

My Uncle.....Navy....gave up a career with the Red Sox to serve his country.

My Uncle.........Drove his tank thru the gates of Dachau

My father.....Shores of Iwo Jima

All rest proudly with their brothers in arms.

And Chewy fights on a daily basis on the mean streets of Charlestown, where the code of silence is takin very seriously.........becareful out there, Chewy!! :-*

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by chewy on Nov 11^th, 2006, 2:18pm

Very........Very..........Very seriously.

If the Feds dont get ya the mob will.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 2:54pm

on 11/11/06 at 12:09:32, Linda_Howell wrote:

And Bill, would you please tell your father-in-law thank you from all of us?

on 11/11/06 at 12:17:12, LeLimey wrote:

All of us on both sides of the pond Bill, they fought for my freedom too.
Helen

I absolutely will, ladies. He's watching the Wisconsin-Iowa game right now. He's earned it.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by kcopelin on Nov 11^th, 2006, 4:16pm

Hey Bill,
My dad was a belly gunner in the Army Air Corps in WWII-ask your father-in-law if he knew Dean Rumbaugh-he was a skinny little cowboy from California.
I got his medals and his burial flag...and a stack of v-mails he sent from Europe.

Ya brought tears to my eyes-(thanks alot dude!)
kathy

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by kcopelin on Nov 11^th, 2006, 4:24pm

Hey y'all!
I'm going to spend my veterans day doing the following:
grocery shopping (done)
rehersal (4 pm)
watching "The War"-(as soon as I gain control of the TV)

I highly recommend that movie, by the way. Kevin Costner, Elija Woods. An awesome movie about us vs. them, how we forget sometimes what started the fight in the first place, and how costly fighting wars (of any kind) can be. It's not an anti-war movie-but it is about loss, and pain and redemption and reality. I really really recommend it.

When I worked on the F-16's I always got this rush-running the engines on the test cell-trying to blow them up before they went on the aircraft. And my heart still kinda skips a beat when I watch the Thunderbirds. They are weapons delivery systems-and God help the folks on the receiving end.

Just like my Dad was changed when he came back from Vietnam-never the same after that, not really-so alot of my friends were changed during Desert Storm. They went over as personnel clerks and came back with souvenirs (fingers and prayer rugs and even one scalp) from the enemies dead.
They weren't the same at all. Broke my heart. I had just given birth to my first child, and I watched from the safety of my home. The surgical precision of the smart bombs-never the bloody aftermath. So war has become in the eyes of too many-a video game. But to those who are there, or who have been there, war is hell.

And it's because of them that I am free today to write this.
Thanks Dad.

God already has blessed America.
Kathy

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Tata on Nov 11^th, 2006, 5:23pm

on 11/11/06 at 11:20:23, brewcrew wrote:

We have a genuine American hero living in our home now. My 81-year-old father-in-law was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps in WWII. He caught a piece of flak in the ass and got a Purple Heart for it.
He's dying of congestive heart failure and pulmonary fibrosis, too frail to attend any parades or ceremonies. I am privileged to spend every moment I can with him.

Hey Brew---
My dad was a tail-gunner in a B-26 Marauder. The name of one of his planes was Flak-Bait. He, too, has CHF and is in end stage renal failure--but man, are these guys TOUGH. I treasure every minute with him, too. Do you by any chance know what bomb group and bomb squadroon he was in?

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 11^th, 2006, 8:29pm

on 11/11/06 at 17:23:06, Tata wrote:

Salute your dad for me the next time you see him.

My father-in-law was 8th Army Air Corps, 486th Bomb Group based in Sudbury, England. He flew 15 combat missions, and he was telling us at dinner tonight that the first thing they did when they returned from each mission was start looking around to see which planes hadn't made it back. The way he told it, it was enough to make you see tears dripping onto your dinner plate.

After the war ended, they flew hay and feed over to France for the horses, and they'd bring British POW's home on the return trip. His job then was to grab a big bellows of delousing powder and spray 'em down.

When I was wheeling him back to his room after dinner, I shouted so everyone could hear, "There's a hero in the house!"

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Linda_Howell on Nov 11^th, 2006, 8:39pm

Quote:

When I was wheeling him back to his room after dinner, I shouted so everyone could hear, "There's a hero in the house!"

Aw jeeze Bill, you just made me start crying. Are ya happy now.? I can be appeased however with some custard. ;)

I would have loved to see his face when you said that to him.

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by Tata on Nov 11^th, 2006, 9:17pm

on 11/11/06 at 20:29:44, brewcrew wrote:

Salute your dad for me the next time you see him.
>>>I will, thanks, and give your father in law a big thanks from my family.
When I was wheeling him back to his room after dinner, I shouted so everyone could hear, "There's a hero in the house!"
>>>You're a great son--forget that in-law stuff. He's a very blessed man to have you and your wife. Big pat on the back to you all!!!!!

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 12^th, 2006, 8:39am

on 11/11/06 at 16:16:14, kcopelin wrote:

Kath,

I asked him at dinner last night, but he didn't know your dad.

P.S. - Sorry I made you cry. I'm such a bully. I probably would have stolen your lunch on the bus, too. ;;D

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by brewcrew on Nov 12^th, 2006, 8:50am

on 11/11/06 at 21:17:23, Tata wrote:

I will. You're very kind to say that. My own dad, a Korea vet, had a massive heart valve blowout a little less than two years ago while attending his sister-in-law's funeral (nothing like stealing the spotlight). Most likely dead before he hit the floor. That's why I consider it such a privilege to care for my father-in-law in his final days. I never got to do that for my dad.

And Kathy and Linda, I hope you're happy now - I just had to wipe a few tears from my own eyes. Can we consider it even? ;)

Bill

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by kcopelin on Nov 12^th, 2006, 5:34pm

Thanks Bill,
You're an honorable man.

PFDAN ya'll
kathy

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by tanner on Nov 12^th, 2006, 8:12pm

on 11/11/06 at 17:23:06, Tata wrote:

322 Bomber Group, one of the most famous (rightfully so)
of the B26's operating and surviving the European theater.

I have been to see the plane at the Air and Space Museum in DC. several times. Great story, Great Heros!

I have met some of the surviving crew members at WW2 weekend in Reading Pa.

Thank your Dad for me please. My Dad was also a tail gunner, but in B25's Pacific Theater. There are unfortunatly no fully functional ( flying ) B 26 Marauders in the world at present. It is a huge hole that needs to be filled for the sake of aviation history. Gotta couple Mil you don't need? ;)

http://b26marauder.com/322nd/G-flakbait2.jpg
Flak Bait Pic.
www.maam.org

....Tim

Title: Re: For the Veterans in our midst
Post by lskilly on Nov 12^th, 2006, 8:53pm

And forget not the Grandmothers, Mothers , Wives, and sweethearts that cried and prayed for us and are now praying and crying for our Grandchildren.

We Salute you.

Sitting at home waiting is more difficult than serving.