Veteran's Day Today

[Dixie Cat]

Don't forget to thank a Veteran TUESDAY the 11th (& everyday) for their unselfish service to our country.

The following link is a story that was shared with me by a Prowler friend, Dottie Cole from St Augustine published in the Milford Daily News about local Veterans' plans to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Her father George Lucas, a US Navy retired veteran is included in the article and also in the video at the end of the story.
Thanks Dottie & John :tu:

http://www.milforddailynews.com/multimedia/x1720646322/Veterans-plan-to-lay-wreath-at-Tomb-of-the-Unknown-Soldier

[Dreamcast18]

http://www.g2mil.com/vetpos87.jpg

[JustAKid]

SALUTE :tu::tu::tu:

[Tabasco Cat]

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[blackcat]

Actually today is the Marine Corp birthday. I believe tomorrow is Veterans Day... Semper Fi!

[Dixie Cat]

Actually today is the Marine Corp birthday. I believe tomorrow is Veterans Day... Semper Fi!

If you read this thread tomorrow then the title of this thread will be correct.:lol: (thanks blackcat)

Veteran's Day is officially celebrated November 11th & my apologies for the gross error on my part. ;-)

[pumpkin]

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[warmncool]

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[attyedhall]

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[kat hunter]

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[TooHipCat]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/1984322026_5d600d01f8_b.jpg

[mrs pumpkin]

Thank you, Norm :retired:

Oh, that is me, too :tu:

Picture is taken in 1973, when we served together.

http://www.zianet.com/sllover/pics/navynormpat72.jpg

[katmat]

Norm,
Do you still out rank her? LOL

[pumpkin]

Thats a big "NO"

[Dixie Cat]

Norm & Pat :tu:
Go Navy!!

[SkanKat]

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/JephB52/vetsday08-lo.jpg

[kat hunter]

Happy Veterans Day to all and a big thank you to all who served in the military in service to their country!!


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[Snoman]

:tu::tu::tu::tu: Thank You All :tu::tu::tu::tu:

[Dreamcast18]

wow..Pat looks just like she is in 73! :tu:

[MissKitty]

Happy Veterans Day to all and a big thank you to all who served in the military in service to their country!!


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[TooHipCat]

Thank you, Norm :retired:

Oh, that is me, too :tu:

Picture is taken in 1973, when we served together.

http://www.zianet.com/sllover/pics/navynormpat72.jpg

What were you Norm...a First Class Gunners Mate?

What was Pat...2nd Class Yeoman? What did she receive in the pic?

Just a note...you're NOT supposed to roll the top edge of that Dixie Cup...lol. They should have taught you that in boot!:roll:


Thanks to ALL my fellow vets...and those that continue to serve this GREAT country of ours!!!:tu::bows

By the way...does anyone know what LIFER...stands for:?:

[blackcat]

Happy Veterans day to all my brothers and sisters who served.....:tu::tu:

[pumpkin]

wow..Pat looks just like she is in 73! :tu:

She looks great at 73????

[BeWare]

I post this every year. It was sent to me by a good friend. It touched me so deeply I feel the need to share it every year around Memorial Day and Veterans Day
I am a Vietnam Vet. To all you other
veterans, sons, daughters, wives or parents of veterans, POW's, MIA's or Killed in Action THANK YOU and GOD BLESS YOU!

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.
What is a vet? 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 Army drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved
countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members
into Soldiers, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
He/she is the pilot/crewmember/ground support person that keeps airpower
an effective tool of national policy.
He is the carrier pilot landing on a rolling, pitching, heaving flight
during a rain squall in the pitch-black night of the Tonkin Gulf.
He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals
with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career quartermaster (Army Supply Corps) who watches the
ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is the Navy SEAL who humps endless miles of burning sand for three
days with no sleep or food and very little water to designate targets for
laser guided bombs or swims through a disease infested swamp and crawls
over
poisonous snakes under the cover of darkness to conduct intelligence on a
foreign government hostile to our own and our cherished way of life.
He is the annonymous 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, a sailor, an airman 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"

[pumpkin]

What were you Norm...a First Class Gunners Mate?

What was Pat...2nd Class Yeoman? What did she receive in the pic?

Just a note...you're NOT supposed to roll the top edge of that Dixie Cup...lol. They should have taught you that in boot!:roll:


Thanks to ALL my fellow vets...and those that continue to serve this GREAT country of ours!!!:tu::bows

By the way...does anyone know what LIFER...stands for:?:

I was a Gmm1 gunners mate missile. I made chief. Your right about the hat, now for liberty we rolled it. For inspection no roll. Girls just loved the rolled dixie cup. cup.:devil:devil

[mrs pumpkin]

What was Pat...2nd Class Yeoman? What did she receive in the pic?


By the way...does anyone know what LIFER...stands for:?:

I was a disbursing clerk - someone had to make sure everyone got paid properly and on time,
although back then nobody got paid much, certainly not like today, but we were happy.

It was a plaque for The Unit "Sailor of the Month"

The official definition of LIFER is:

1 : a person sentenced to imprisonment for life
2 : a person who makes a career of one of the armed forces
3 : a person who has made a lifelong commitment (as to a way of life)

but I'm sure there are some other meanings, we always referred to someone as a "Lifer" if
they reenlisted even if they didn't stay for twenty years.

[TooHipCat]

I was a disbursing clerk - someone had to make sure everyone got paid properly and on time,


So that's why Norm liked you...lol.



It was a plaque for The Unit "Sailor of the Month"


Congrats on the "Sailor of the Month"!!!:tu:

Sorry I'm a little late...lol.

[TooHipCat]

Here is a pic of me at the recomissioning ceremony of the Battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62). She was recommissioned on December 28,1982.

I was only an E-2 at the time. Fresh out of Fireman Apprentice Training school.

Holy crap...this pic was taken almost 26 years ago!!!:eek2:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p59/TooHipCat/RecomissioningontheBigJEDIT.jpg?t=1226447781 (javascript:void(0);)


Here is one more. This pic was taken as you can see on board the New Jersey...just below the forward 16" gun turret.

This pic was taken cuz we all just made Petty Officer (E-4).

I am located at the dead center (just below the center 16" gun barrel) of the bottom row of squids...lol. My knee resting on the Jerseys teak wood deck...proud as a Peacock.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p59/TooHipCat/Making3rdClassontheBigJEDIT.jpg?t=1226447951 (javascript:void(0);)

[1buddyc]

I've got some pics like that too Brian, back when my hair and mustache were still Black..
And a Salute to all the Veterans out there that participate on this Great Site.

[TooHipCat]

And a Salute to all the Veterans out there that participate on this Great Site.

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[Mrs.Freeze]

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[mrs pumpkin]

So that's why Norm liked you...lol.



I'm sure that had a little to do with it :rolleyes: :rll: :rll:

Congrats on the "Sailor of the Month"!!!:tu:

Sorry I'm a little late...lol.

Thanks . . . better late than never :beer: