To those of you who served in the Military

[PopTodd]

Thank you.

[mfwahl]

Seconded.

 

Thanks, Dad!

[cryptique]

Thanks to my late grandfather, along with all other veterans. Though he spent much of his time "in the rear with the gear," he saw his share of front-lines action in the European Theatre, and had many stories to tell, though you had to drag them out of him.

[remphish1]

 

Thank you for this thread and all who served!!

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

And to think..21 years later there would be the rematch...

 

 

[EL the Famous]

thanks, grandpa!

[kimcatch22]

Thanks to my great-uncle, who was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and endured one of the harshest winter campaigns of the war.

Thanks to my grandpa, who served in Korea.

Thanks to my brother, who is balancing college and ROTC.

Thanks to my cousin, in the Navy and just back from a tour in Iraq.

Thanks to all my friends currently serving, especially those currently in Afghanistan and Iraq.

And thanks to the millions of others who have served and who continue to serve!

[embiggen]

thanks to my grandpa and husband. :usa :usa

[IATTBYB]

Thanks to my brothers (2 Navy/1 Army) who served.

 

And if you haven't read this story on CNN, you really should: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/11/acevedo.pow/index.html

[ZenLunatic]

Thank you.

 

11:11 is a special time.

[PopTodd]

Thanks to my brothers (2 Navy/1 Army) who served.

 

And if you haven't read this story on CNN, you really should: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/11/acevedo.pow/index.html

 

I read that story and got choked up.

Amazing.

[Sir Stewart]

Thanks to the veterans, especially Grampa True, who must've been constantly on edge on that oil tanker in the Pacific, and to great Uncle Albert, who was there to witness the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp, and never was able to recover from what he saw. Eternal thanks.

[bjorn_skurj]

Gratitude and the hugest props to the veterans!

[Three dollars and 63 cents]

Thanks to those who have served our country, as well as to those who currently are. Though we may not stop and think about it as much as we should, their sacrifices have enabled and are enabling us to live the way that we do. We should never take that for granted.

[mfwahl]

Thanks to my brothers (2 Navy/1 Army) who served.

 

And if you haven't read this story on CNN, you really should: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/11/acevedo.pow/index.html

Great article. Must read.

"You only live once. Let's keep trucking. If we don't do that, who's going to do it for us? We have to be happy. Why hate?" he says. "The world is full of hate, and yet they don't know what they want."

[Wilco Worshipper]

Thank you to all who have lived and died serving our country.

 

I'm especially proud of my uncle who is a Retired Colonel from the Air Force, my cousin who is in the Army, my close friend who did two tours in Iraq and a co-worker who just left for Iraq.

[Wilco Worshipper]

And if you haven't read this story on CNN, you really should: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/11/acevedo.pow/index.html

Wow...

[Gobias Industries]

The greatest of thanks to those who made it safe to be here, a harbor against the ills of the world around.

 

Though he was technically in the Chinese army (instructed, in fact, at Chiang Kai-shek's military school), I'd like to mention and thank my grandfather, a 4-star general who refused to be anywhere but on the front lines while fighting to liberate his mother country from the Japs. I wish I had gotten to know him better. He passed away in '95 here in the United States, and so I wonder how he felt, knowing that when he left China for Taiwan around 1950 when Mao took over, he probably would never return home again...

[jmacomber68w]

I'm in 100% agreement with everything stated so far, Thank You!

[uncool2pillow]

Thanks to all veterans! We wouldn't be here doing what we do without your sacrifice.