MEANDWARF Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Couldn't agree more. Thanks to all our nation's veterans. Let us not also forget why Veterans Day is celebrated on Nov. 11: the armistice that ended fighting in World War I in 1918. More than 8 million people, including more than 110,000 Americans, lost their lives in that terrible conflict. Though by all accounts, everyone who fought in that war has passed on, let us never forget their sacrifices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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grego Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 thank you, and youre welcome. let me say a special happy birthday to my fellow marines. semper fi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Thank you to all who currently serve, and have served in the past. You have my respect and gratitude, and acknowledgement of the overwhelming sacrifices you've made to make this country a safer place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 you're welcome. thanks to those guys still in uniform as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I still think that if you served in the military, such as myself, you shouldn't have to work on Veterans Day. I mean I'm not sure I've ever worked for a company that had it as a vacation day. All vets should be rewarded with one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 You're welcome, & thanks to all who are still serving, both here & abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbs Hog Heaven Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Our Armistice Day. Remembrance Sunday as it is now named, was yesterday. (it's always the closest Sunday to the 11th to commemorate both WW). I guess it's your equivalent of Memorial Day as officially it remembers our War and later conflict dead. Although many like to honour those still serving, served and sadly passed ala Veterans Day. Their is always well attended memorials all over the Nation at War memorials attended by current and former service men and woman and dignitaries. Not least at the Cenotaph and Woman's Memorial on Whitechapel in London. Always heavily attended and the Queen always lays a poppy wreath. There is a National 2 minutes silence 11 AM. The time hostilities ended back in 1918. One of the most poignant occasions each and every year is the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall that the Royal British Legion put on every year on the Saturday prior to Remembrance Sunday which encompases EVERY branch of the Armed Forces and culminates in the release of poppy petals for every fallen War life. Get's me each and every year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ed4xtDnrf0 This was also brilliant from this past Saturday's remembrance. 5 young singers, aged between 10 through 17, all with current serving Fathers. The sheer emotional joy of that young girl seeing her father again ..... The Poppy Girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJxTdglAZZk God rest the fallen. God bless all that continue to give selfless dedication for ALL of our sakes. Hail. *Edit* Why am I having trouble putting up youtube vids again darn it ?!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Thank you those that have served @AdamSchefter 7:21 AM Today is one more day for us to remember all those who sacrificed, and keep sacrificing, so we can have the freedoms we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Dayton Daily News: Last Doolittle Raiders make final toast WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — With a final toast, the Doolittle Raiders symbolically said goodbye Saturday to a decades-old tradition and to a history that changed the course of the Pacific war in World War II. Gathering from across the country together one last time, three surviving Raiders sipped from silver goblets engraved with their names and filled with 1896 Hennessy cognac in a once-private ceremony webcast to the world at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Robert E. Cole, 98, a Dayton native, led the final toast to the 80 airmen who took off in 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers April 18, 1942, from the deck of the USS Hornet to bomb Japan four months after a Japanese surprise naval and air attack on Pearl Harbor. The onslaught devastated the U.S. Pacific fleet and killed more than 2,400 U.S. service members. Months later, Cole was in the lead aircraft and co-pilot to mission leader Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle. Two white-gloved Air Force Academy cadets in dress blue uniforms laid three goblets before the Raiders and saluted each man after historian C.V. Glines read the names of each man on the mission. “Gentleman, I propose a toast,” Cole said, as about 700 spectators watched one final time, “to those we lost on the mission and those that passed away since. Thank you very much and may they rest in peace.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Fun fact: today is also Polish Independence Day. After the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Poland became an independent state...only to fall into the hands of the Nazis, then the Soviets, a few decades later. http://en.poland.gov.pl/November,11,Polish,Independence,Day,10361.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Classy thread! Hopefully everyone has a chance to toast some of the finer people this world has ever seen; AND IF POSSIBLE, a chance to relax and spend time with family. Happy Veterans Day to everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallen5862 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Happy Veterans day to my fellow Vets. North Carolina Army National Guard Medic Specialist 4 1981 to 1987. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKINS@THEGOALLINE Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Thanks to all the veterans for your service to this country. Richard Overton, who met President Obama today in honor of Veterans Day, is, at 107 years old, the country's oldest living World War II veteran. USA Today reports, "He still starts his day each morning with 'a tablespoon of whiskey in his coffee and still smokes a dozen cigars a day." http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/11/richard-overton-oldest-wwII-veteran-video.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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