to all who are serving or who have served . . .

ByWil

I’ve struggled to put some eloquent words together all day, and I just can’t make them work, so I’m just going to take the three that were important to me and put them down now: thank you, veterans.

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  4. Whenever I see people speaking freely, enjoying their life and in general participating in the big mess of lifestyles that is America that is more than enough for me.
    I do like this day though to think especially of those who served when it was especially costly and are right now actively engaged in serving in various parts of the world.

  9. Thanks, Wil! (USAF 1980-1990 — Flying recon, hacking and slashing at the slimy tentacles of Soviet aggression so that once again the great golden eagle may fly over the land of the free and the home of the brave!)

  13. Your welcome, and thank you
    (US Navy 1997-199)
    And I sent my husband back overseas on Sunday. Eight more months in Afghanistan for him.

  15. You’re welcome, Wil. I served in peacetime, but my son is currently enlisted in the Army and likely to head to Iraq soon.
    And thank you for excercising the freedoms my son and I served to protect.
    US Army, 1985-1989

  16. You’re welcome. 🙂
    However, I sometimes hesitate to consider myself a veteran, since I received a medical discharge before ever being deployed anywhere (stupid knee).
    USMC – 1998-1999
    Thanks also to all the other current servicemembers & vets out there.

  18. You’re welcome. It’s what I wanted to do, and I was proud to serve and protect.
    (Sgt., USAF, 305th AREFW, SAC, Grissom AFB – 1986-1992)

  21. I would like to add my own Thank You to the veterans. It is nice to see so many veterans read this blog. Every year at the California State Fair my family signs the giant banner for “Operation Postcard” I think they call it. I seem to have writer’s block like Wil and just write Thank You for your service and sign my name. Veterans really know what the old saying “Freedom isn’t free” means. We can’t thank you all enough. My flag is up.

  23. Thank you Wil. U.S.Army 1960-1962. Older than most of your readers, but I can enjoy what’s going on in your life too.
    VL

  24. You’re Welcome. And I would like to say thanks to all of those who have served or are serving our country, past and present.
    SSgt, USAR 1987-1998, 94th Gen Hosp (activated for Desert Storm 1991), 187th Med Btn.

  28. caitlen315, I know what you mean. I went bonkers (I got mostly better…) and got discharged before I was deployed anywhere, but a big “You’re welcome” goes out from this 3rd generation Navy vet (served aboard USS David R Ray DD-971 ’96-’97), and my husband, an Army Iraq vet who now works as a contractor headed back to Iraq in Feb.
    Thank you to all of you who exercise the freedoms those we love fight for.

  30. You are most welcome Wil
    USAF 1978-1992
    F-111 and F-16 Avionics
    I like a saying by Albert Einstein “Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding”.
    we kept the cold war peace by doing our jobs so we wouldn’t have to do our jobs. todays world requires different thinking than the world I knew when in. one thing is constant though, it takes a dedicated group of men and women to put it on the line for the freedom of all peoples.
    peace and thanks to all who serve, those who served and most especially those who gave all.

  31. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun and in the morning
    We will remember them.”
    “For the Fallen” (Laurence Binyon) 1914

  33. Wil: Most people don’t realize this, but we veterans rarely require eloquence in anything. Your three words are more than enough. You’re welcome, from Iraq.

  42. Our pleasure.
    USAF 1986-1991
    USAFA Dean of Faculty Sqdn.
    Far East Network, AFKN, Seoul
    AFRTS-BC, Los Angeles, CA
    (A DINFOS trained killer with a microphone.)

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