Veteran's Day

MikeD

MikeD

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Thank you too all those who have served or are currently serving our country in the US military. Your bravery and commitment to country should be an example to us all. God Bless.

 
Yes, thank you to those who have or are serving!
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Happy Veteran's Day!

Remember it's: Veteran not VET TRIN or VET CHRIN.

 
Thanks everyone! Specifically mom, grandma, grandpa, other grandpa, great uncle who got shot down (I believe in 'nam
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, maybe earlier in WW2), cousin Mike and cousin Sarah.

for anyone who cares, they were in the Navy, Navy, Navy, Army, Navy or Airforce (he was a gunner on a plane), Airforce, and Army.

 
Vets. Go get your free burger at Applebees. And your free car wash in Scarborough(next to Chicago dog) And I think there is a car wash on RT in SoPo that is doing it too.

 
Vets. Go get your free burger at Applebees. And your free car wash in Scarborough(next to Chicago dog) And I think there is a car wash on RT in SoPo that is doing it too.
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Vets can also get a free carwash at J&S in Manchester

 
thanks to op for starting this thread.

and a big thank you to everyone who has served, and given so much to our country.

 
Oh yeah, big thanks to my recently passed Aunt ... she was a disabled Veteran. She is and will continue to be missed.

 
Vets. Go get your free burger at Applebees. And your free car wash in Scarborough(next to Chicago dog) And I think there is a car wash on RT in SoPo that is doing it too.
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already had mine at 11:30 this morning
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(thank you Applebee's)

 
One thing that makes me sad every Veteran's Day is thinking about my buddy Brad, who came home from Vietnam with half a right foot and assorted shrapnel in his back and neck courtesy of a Vietcong ambush.

He was the only survivor of a tank that ran over a US 500-lb bomb buried in the road. The tank landed upside down, and Brad owes his life to the escape hatch in the bottom of the tank, which most crews welded shut to better withstand such ambushes, but which Brad had fought with his crew chief NOT to weld up.

Unlike so many vets of today, Brad never ever received a warm welcome home, in fact just the opposite. Brad is a really strong guy but he literally never got over that, and it messed him up profoundly. He's really tried to get his sheet together, with only partial success. Now almost 40 years later he's still struggling with PTSD and "significant authority issues."

Last I heard Brad was living in a school bus at the end of a desert road, right on the Arizona/Mexico border. Don't know exactly what he's doing, but last we talked he said he was still carrying an M16 in his truck, "just in case."

So if you know a vet or 3, make sure to tell em you care...it means the world to them.
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PS--Brad, we're thinkin of ya today, and lots of other days too.

 
My mom treated a guy who stepped on a landmine... lost the bottom half of his body (both legs). Worst war story ever.

 
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