Happy Veterans Day

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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Thank you for the service. :peace:
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.

    Almost like a child that is given everything and has never had to earn privileges..They will never understand the stuggle...we can only try to appreciate our freedoms

    God bless those who protect us
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Thank you for your service and dedication. I posted this in another thread, but it belongs here, too.

    My dad fought in WWII. He was in the Pacific prepping for the invasion of Japan when they dropped the bombs.

    This is long, but it's part of a letter from my dad to his mom, dated April 27, 1945. He's in Manila.
    "The trip to the city was enlightening in as much as it gave me a first hand picture of the destruction wrought thru total war. You’ll never have the real picture until you’re actually in the midst of it. It’s a god damn mess that hurts and then makes you mad. Try to picture the block of the Schenley Apartments [where his family lived in Pittsburgh] multiplied by several more blocks just like it, a mass of shattered rubble. Sections blasted completely away, others just shells with gaping holes, while in the midst just for incongruity a small Spanish styled residence, walled in and entered thru a wrought iron gate that opens into a lovely patio garden full of luxuriant growth and the usual naked babies which would have been squirting water if the city water system had been running, scattered thru it. All of this was untouched except for one hole in the wall. To the right as you entered was the resident itself while on the other side of the patio were the stables. One of our platoon CPs was housed there – the EM [enlisted men?] quartered in the stalls – tiled with oaken, hand carved swinging doors, while the officers were upstairs in the servants’ quarters – tiled, fresh toilet, etc. The servants’ kitchen served as a message center and switchboard set up. God makes us thankful for little things."
  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,980
    Happy Veterns Day......Thanks for all you have done!!
    Listening to the London Ontaio radio station fm 96 and they doing a call in request song for soldiers at the drive home at 5 and to close out the show they played the cover of Fortunate Son by Pearl Jam. Know I didn't hear anybody request it, I think the DJ just played it :)
    2005 - London
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    E, so descriptive, especially the barely-affected home.

    Glad for all who made it home as safely as possible, and an extra thanks to, honor for, those who didn't.

    This happened a few months ago but I read about it only earlier today. Very sweet.
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/emotional-moment-wwii-vet-reads-long-lost-love/story?id=29526157

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