thanks veterans

[brianmanahan]

for all you did and do

:salute:

 

[Ken g6]

 

[olds]

You're welcome.

 

[K7SN]

You're welcome.

Likewise; discharged in 1969, first time I heard that was 2010 but I've been thanked many times since then.

 

[SketchMaster]

Four years ago I was lucky enough to work alongside Service Men and Women for a short time in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'll never forget how seeing what they do changed me forever.

Thank you for everything.

 

[keird]

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/arti...nk-them-for-their-service?utm_source=vicefbus

Bhahahaha. Sausage Castle!

 

[Ackmed]

You're welcome.

Yesterday was the Marine Corps 240th Bday also.

 

[Drako]

+1

:thumbsup:

 

[olds]

I must add that I am a little perturbed by the OP. He couldn't be bothered to write a proper title or post using proper grammar rules. His 'thanks' feels a little disingenuous.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lest we forget.

Thanks to all those who have and currently are serving.

 

[brianmanahan]

I must add that I am a little perturbed by the OP. He couldn't be bothered to write a proper title or post using proper grammar rules. His 'thanks' feels a little disingenuous.

trust me, i am thankful! even though i did not call it "***Official*** 2015 Veterans Day Thread". i will consider that for next year. i may also write a short pome if i can think of a fitting one.

 

[SlitheryDee]

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/arti...nk-them-for-their-service?utm_source=vicefbus

Bhahahaha. Sausage Castle!

I always thought this should happen.

Thank you vets for doing the stuff the rest of us are too chickenshit to do!

 

[keird]

I always thought this should happen.

Thank you vets for doing the stuff the rest of us are too chickenshit to do!

I remember being 20 and returning from overseas. A victory parade followed by a concert and college girls sitting among paratroopers on a grass covered field. I mean fuck, I didn't want people thanking me. I wanted some trim! My opinion hasn't changed since retirement, either.

Edit: I didn't get any that day. Another time some Army buddies and I were trolling along through some town in NC and we see a chick wearing an old, green field jacket. We ask her if there's anything going on in town and she replied that she didn't know because she wasn't from the area. It turns out she was from the circus and invited us to see her the next day while performing. She was an aerial ballet artist and was staying in the circus train. We met her back stage along with her troop of costumed hotties and get invited to dinner. Dinner was at some restaurant with half the circus performers and we all had a great time. Look, being among the 20:1 male/female ratio at Ft. Bragg is depressing enough. It's worse among the Infantry. Meeting a nice, pretty girl and not the dependopotami and strippers of the Fayetteville region gives a young man hope . Even the fat chicks are choosy around there.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Please Don’t Thank Me for My Service

Mike Freedman, a Green Beret, calls it the “thank you for your service phenomenon.” To some recent vets — by no stretch all of them — the thanks comes across as shallow, disconnected, a reflexive offering from people who, while meaning well, have no clue what soldiers did over there or what motivated them to go, and who would never have gone themselves nor sent their own sons and daughters.

To these vets, thanking soldiers for their service symbolizes the ease of sending a volunteer army to wage war at great distance — physically, spiritually, economically. It raises questions of the meaning of patriotism, shared purpose and, pointedly, what you’re supposed to say to those who put their lives on the line and are uncomfortable about being thanked for it

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunday-review/please-dont-thank-me-for-my-service.html

 

[SketchMaster]

Please Don’t Thank Me for My Service



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunday-review/please-dont-thank-me-for-my-service.html

I think this may help some understand what you're saying: https://www.ted.com/talks/wes_moore_how_to_talk_to_veterans_about_the_war?language=en

 

[Drako]

Please Don’t Thank Me for My Service



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunday-review/please-dont-thank-me-for-my-service.html

And that has nothing to do with Veterans Day, but thanks for posting something negative. :thumbsdown:

 

[Oyeve]

Please Don’t Thank Me for My Service



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunday-review/please-dont-thank-me-for-my-service.html

Did service men during WW2 era whine like pussies?

 

[Printer Bandit]

Are we celebrating dead or alive veterans today?

 

[olds]

Are we celebrating dead or alive veterans today?

We don't generally celebrate death. You being the exception to the rule.

 

[Printer Bandit]

We don't generally celebrate death. You being the exception to the rule.

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day

 

[allisolm]

It wasn't always easy and it wasn't always fair, but when freedom called, we answered. We were there.

A heartfelt thanks to everyone who served from the wife of one who served for more than 20 years.

 

[K7SN]

Are we celebrating dead or alive veterans today?

Just in case you weren't being sarcastic; we now celebrate all veterans on Armistice Day when at the 11 hour of the 11th day of the 11 month in 1918 we stopped killing millions in Europe which was called the Great War; which we call WWI nowadays. It was officially for the end of war and Spanish American soldiers and Boxer Rebellion participants were considered veterans who survived but not honored with a holiday; though like other "holidays" it was the states who declared if they were days to close the banks until 1938 when it became a Federal holiday.

After WWII and Korea, Ike changed the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954. Sometime after I got discharged (1969), they tried to make it a weekend holiday but not all the WWI veteran had died and it soon came back to November 11.

It was to honor those who served and remember those who died; as time went on people who put their lives in all are other conflicts (Yes we have been farting around since the Civil War, messed with Korea in the 18th century, Spain (Remember the Maine), China (Boxer Rebellion) and numerous other farting around with freedom (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler) where Marine Corps Major General with two CMHs wrote:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Over the years it morphed in all veterans since most are now dead you could say it was as much for the dead as the living; Memorial Day is for those who paid the ultimate price; Veteran's Day is for all past and present who served their country from Smedley to Elvis Presley.

Veterans are often just glad to get out alive; for forty years I just wanted to forget but as I get long in the tooth I appreciate being thanked even if we eventually did lose the war. I suspect those cited above joined to save the world and became disillusioned or wanted their ego stroked.

 

[glenn1]

Appreciate the thanks but would be really gratified if people actively did something to mark Vet's Day instead. Donate to USMC Toys for Tots program, bring a meal to disabled folks at the VA hospital, or spend some time with and listen to the stories of a older vet.

 

[shortylickens]

Welcome.

Of course, I did it for the college money.....

 

[brianmanahan]

Welcome.

Of course, I did it for the college money.....

that doesn't matter, you still did it. thank you.