To all our Vet's, we appreciate all that was sacrificed to secure the safety of this great nation and our allied country s across the globe
Happy Veterans Day
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I'm blessed to have several veterans in my family. A very heart felt thank you to all our current and future vets, you have my deepest respect.
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By virtue of my AFSC (MOS), all of my duty stations were joint service. To all my fellow Airmen, Soldiers, Marines and Sailors - thanks for the sacrifices. We moved away from our families on a great adventure, some of us at a very young age, and found new families in each other.
I'll always look fondly on those 8 years.
Happy Veterans Day.
I'll always look fondly on those 8 years.
Happy Veterans Day.
Ancient ancestry veteran, Col. Prescott, who said, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes," in the Revolution. My dad's brother, Uncle Dick to me, was in the first major amphibious landing by the U.S. in WWII in the Pacific, a bloody learning experience in which Dick figured out how to use the tides to transport barrels of fuel to the beach without losing more lives unloading them, for which he received the Bronze Star. My dad was a minesweeper skipper in the Philippines during WWII. I was a minesweeper radioman during the Vietnam War in the combat zone off the DMZ (Operation Market Time). I am the least likely military veteran, and since I don't talk about it, my friends of several years (or more) are sometimes aghast to learn this is true, actually clearly disbelieve it for a while, or think I'm joking. No joke. I guess I'm a sort of stealth veteran.
Oops, sorry ...the name of that first major amphibious battle for the U.S. in the Pacific during WWII was of course Tarawa. The U.S. military was trying all kinds of things -- tactics, weapons, intelligence on beaches and terrain, and so forth -- for the first time. I think military historians agree, though successful, it wasn't pretty.
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