To all Veterans

[Finns]

THANK YOU!

Finns

USN '69-'73

[mudman]

That goes double for me!

With out veterans there would be no freedom!

[TheGuy]

FREEDOM!!!!

THANKS TO ALL VETERANS!!!!

[Tom Linderholm]

Here, Here!

Thank You!

[muskybuck]

Especially to those who at this minute and second are holding on to a hot gun barrel fighting for our and the worlds freedom.

[uffdapete]

Freedom is never free.

Thank you vets. You are my heroes.

[shortfatguy]

YOU ARE WELCOME!!! please keep those who are in service now in your thoughts!!!

[upnorth]

I 2nd that!! We would never be where we are today without those who protect this country and what it stands for.

[JIM PAYNE]

Thanks for the thoughts we will always remember are brothers of past and our prayers for the ones that are there now but what we did was for the freedoms of the future

(first Cav 1971 to 1972

[Eric Wettschreck]

Thanks for the thanks fellas. Now let's not forget our brothers in harms way as we speak.

U.S. Navy....85-95

[fishinphilth]

Thank you all.

[EBass]

Thank you and god bless

[otto_man]

indeed,,, Thank You all!!!!

[Cooter]

More thanks and respect to all veterans and current force members than I could ever express in words.

[slick814]

I'd do it again tomorrow...

USAF '90-'94.

Keep the guys that are out there doing the job now in your hearts, minds, & prayers!!!!!

[The Grebe]

OperationDearAbby.net will give you the oportunity to send emails to our troops overseas.

It is specifically designed for that very reason, to let our men and women in the armed services know that we are thinking about them...send someone an email!

I bet that if that email address was bumped over into the other sections of this forum, the soldiers would get a very good response from FM participants.

[Tour. Pro 175]

I can't say thank you enough! Thank you for your sacrifices! God bless you all!!

[Northlander]

Yes, for sure a Huge thanks to those who served past and present. Grandpa Holmes and Dad I owe you the biggest THANKS! You guys are class acts all the way. Happy Veterans Day!

[Pete Riola]

Double Dittos

[John Mickish]

Thanks for the kind words. Remember, we have guys and gals in other bad places around this world other than Iraq and Afganistan.

USAF 82-92

GLCM ranger 88-90

Gulf War 91-92

Egypt (operation freedom) 92 (The straw that broke the camels back, I quit after that)

[arbuck]

As said earlier - FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.

Many thanks to all that have served, and are serving, for my families freedom.

One of the few regrets I have is not signing on the line.

Thanks again

arbuck

[guideman]

I pray for the day that honoring veterans of war will be a thing of the past.

Army 1969,1972

To all my brothers, that never came home. May the good lord grant you peace.

[delmuts]

i'm a day late, but THANK YOU to all veterans! del

[1DIRTBALL]

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! Truer words have not been spoken. With Thanksgiving fast approaching, when I start thinking about what I am most thankful for, the word Veteran always seems to come up first. There is hardly anything we can say or do to adequately thank our Veterans. Without them and the Supreme sacrifices they have all made,from Valley Forge to Iraq, there would be no life or freedoms that we are privileged to enjoy today. As a Veteran myself, I really appreciate all the thanks. What little I did pales by comparison to all those fabulous Veterans that came before me. UNBOUNDED COPIOUS THANKS TO ALL VETERANS!

[Long Gray Line]

We had my West Point class of 79 reunion this last weekend and someone had the great idea of setting up a video teleconference with classmates in Iraq. They asked us to pass along just one message - No matter what you hear in the news, we are winning this thing and there's a lot of good being done. There is more power being generated, more schools are open and more hospitals are taking care of Iraqis than there were before we went in. I have some pix from over there I'd like to share but not sure how to, can someone help me if it's ok?

Jeff

[Renneberg]

Thank you, to all veterans.

[big drift]

Thanks for saying thanks.

U.S. Army Military Police

18th Airborne Corp SRT/CNU

'87-'95

Panama

Desert Shield/Storm

Somalia

Honduras/Columbia

[Royce Aardahl]

you're welcome and thanks. The world was pretty tame when I served. Vietnam just ended and I went to Alaska for 3 years. My wife and I watched saving private ryan last night. I highly recommend it.

[huskiesplayer15]

Much thanks from me.

Best Fishes

Chris

[uffdapete]

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you're welcome and thanks. The world was pretty tame when I served. Vietnam just ended and I went to Alaska for 3 years. My wife and I watched saving private ryan last night. I highly recommend it.

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I'd also highly recommend "Saving Private Ryan". Not as entertainment, but to see some of the realities and emotions of war. I learned 2 days after seeing it when it came out in the theatres that my uncle was one of those who landed at Omaha beach on D-Day. It was at that point that I began to understand why he struggled with alcoholism for 25 years afterwards.

An excerpt from the movie where General Marshall, in an effort to console a mother who lost 3 sons in WWII, quoted President Lincoln -

"I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom."