Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Today Is Veterans Day

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Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 11-11-2008, 09:59 AM:

There will be Veterans Day celebrations everywhere, take one in if you can. It's not about making war, it's about those who served the country during war and other times---when there's a disaster it's the military that is called to provide water, distribute food, last minute evacuation, etc.

You vets out there, check Applebee's and Golden Corral web sites for their free dinner offers to veterans.

Who of you, from ANY country have served in your country's military?
For me, U.S. Army May 67 - May 69 Vietnam draftee

[ 11-11-2008, 07:03 PM: Message edited by: Bill Enos ]

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 11-11-2008, 10:18 AM:

And outside the US it's called Remembrance Day or Poppy Day and Armistice Day to commemorate the end of WWI (since WWI ended on Nov 11, 1918).

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 11-11-2008, 10:53 AM:

Thanks for posting Bill. For me it was May 1966 - May 1969.
Vietnam Vet.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-11-2008, 03:00 PM:

Did you get any kills, Rick?

Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 11-11-2008, 03:26 PM:

I served from 3 years from Jan 1973-Dec 1975.
I was in one of the last groups of people to be drafted.
(It's the only lottery I've ever won! [Big Grin]

)

For the past few years I've taken time to march in the
Veterans Day Parade here in SF to show support for the
troops. I'd have done it this year but I had to work.

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 11-11-2008, 04:58 PM:

quote: Joe Redifer
Did you get any kills, Rick?

Only time.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 11-11-2008, 07:00 PM:

For me, I'm a Vietnam Vet and was in that smelly hell hole country Oct 1968 - Jun 1970 as a U.S. Army Helicopter rider all over the II core area installing/repairing microwave communication equiptment and radio and TV stuff for AFARTS.

(Dontcha just love my run-on sentences? Huh?)

I killed a shitload of people... [Wink]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 11-11-2008, 07:43 PM:

I called my dad up today and wished him a Happy "V" day since he served in WWII in Europe right after "D-Day" until a few months after the surrender of Nazi Germany.

My draft number was high, but still was in college to get my 2-S deferment. After college, the draft was abolished even though I went to 1-A status.

Yet, I fully salute to all who entered into the service to serve this great country of ours and give great and many respects to those who served and the sacrifices they gave in all the wars they had to be called in.
-Monte

[ 11-11-2008, 08:52 PM: Message edited by: Monte L Fullmer ]

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 11-12-2008, 07:56 AM:

Thought you all might want to read this.

What is a Veteran?

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.

Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.

Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.

You can't tell a vet just by looking.

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade - riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies
unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the
freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag."

Father Denis Edward O'Brien/USMC

A heart-felt thanks to all vets who have served our country. God bless us all.

I served in the US Marine Corps from 1962 t0 1968....Semper Fi! Bob

Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 11-12-2008, 05:23 PM:

its a day late but...

USAF 1/88 - 6/95

Desert Storm Vet

-Aaron