2020 Veteran's Day
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that comic strip is where my username comes from in a roundabout way and it is my all-time favorite comic strip still.
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I didn't see any action but maybe in a way I did as an AF White Hat. It was kind of cool to work the main gate in dress blues but I really didn't like being a cop all that much. I'm just real thankful I didn't end up in the army and in Nam....
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Well, if the Brits can have a whole month for Remembrance then a 2 day head start ain't too much to ask.
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For most, Veterans day is a day where one takes a few to think of all the men and women who have served, both living and passed and be thankful, if only for awhile. To others it's a day that is very sad and troubling. A day taken to be alone with ones memories of pals and soldiers under your command, who were wounded or killed outright. Memories that are carried with us every day. It's unfortunately a day that precipitates many, many suicides of military people. While you think of those in the first sentence, please also think of those in the last one. Thank you all. Ghost.
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Happy Birthday Marines!!!
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Young people here in the USA should be learning about it too, unedited, no spin. Just the history. We’re blessed, some to the point of being spoiled. Thanks to everyone who served, and serve, in any capacity.
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In my area of the country, I'm blessed with a lot of people (including the grandkids) that learn the correct way.Including in elementary school.
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As I reflect on the comments here I am reminded that there are many types of veterans. I’ve met a few. Lots of ‘Nam guys, including lots of Canadians who served in the U.S. armed forces in ‘Nam. There were thousands. Lots died. I have a great history book on it.
My wife works in the medical field. One of the doctors was a German, captured by the Russians. Not an easy time of it. Nice guy.
Around 1970 or 1971 one of my dads friends was a former mercenary. A real one. Fought somewhere in Africa. A genuinely cool guy, not the hormoned up stereotype that Hollywood would show us. Had the first AR15 I ever saw. Remember, this was still a new gun in the early seventies. He had a 357 magnum revolver he carried. Not common, or legal in Canada. We are out one time shooting in the Bush. We see an old engine, and the discussion is whether or not a 357 can penetrate an engine block. He calmly walks over and cranks one into the engine, from perhaps five feet. How none of us were hurt by flying shrapnel only god knows.
Anyway, one day a buddy of his from the old days shows up and they tie one on. Former merc drowns in his own vomit while sleeping. Very sad.
My moms former boss from the ‘70’s was a army nurse in Malta, WWII. Tough, tough woman.
There’s been others, but those are the ones I think of the most.
My wife works in the medical field. One of the doctors was a German, captured by the Russians. Not an easy time of it. Nice guy.
Around 1970 or 1971 one of my dads friends was a former mercenary. A real one. Fought somewhere in Africa. A genuinely cool guy, not the hormoned up stereotype that Hollywood would show us. Had the first AR15 I ever saw. Remember, this was still a new gun in the early seventies. He had a 357 magnum revolver he carried. Not common, or legal in Canada. We are out one time shooting in the Bush. We see an old engine, and the discussion is whether or not a 357 can penetrate an engine block. He calmly walks over and cranks one into the engine, from perhaps five feet. How none of us were hurt by flying shrapnel only god knows.
Anyway, one day a buddy of his from the old days shows up and they tie one on. Former merc drowns in his own vomit while sleeping. Very sad.
My moms former boss from the ‘70’s was a army nurse in Malta, WWII. Tough, tough woman.
There’s been others, but those are the ones I think of the most.
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Even Canucks know Chesty Puller.
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I have my Father's discharge papers.. he lied about his age in '44 to enlist and when they were done boot camp the war was over as they rode the train to the East coast. My Brother spent 20 years in CANFOR, most of it as the Herc Squadron leader (as a Major) out of Trenton. Flew the Gulf War, Bosnia, Sarajevo and every other hell hole that they could find to send our boys. I just enjoy the freedom that they and many others enlisted to uphold ! My Brother has a lot of little imaginary boxes he keeps his thoughts in for those in his crews that they lost.
Wayne, I can well imagine. My dad got drafted out of high school to the USNavy.(year behind in age?) for WWII. Keep the faith!
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