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Veteran's Day.

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Hope all my brother's and sister's out there are having a good day relaxing.

AN OLD SOLDIER'S PRAYER
I have fought when others feared to serve.
I have gone where others failed to go.
I've lost friends in war and strife,
Who valued Duty more than love of life.

I have shared the comradeship of pain.
I have searched the lands for men that we have lost.
I have sons who served this land of liberty,
Who would fight to see that other stricken lands are free.

I have seen the weak forsake humanity.
I have heard the traitors praise our enemy.
I've seen challenged men become even bolder,
I've seen the Duty, Honor, Sacrifice of the Soldier.

Now I understand the meaning of our lives,
The loss of comrades not so very long ago.
So to you who have answered duties siren call,
May God bless you my son, may God bless you all.

Lewis Millett
 
Please keep in mind and prayers that there is an estimated 40k homeless veterans in the U.S.
A precise count is almost impossible to make, yet, according to estimates, over 40,000 veterans are homeless on any given night and that’s a major problem that the country is currently trying to address.
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https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homeless-veterans-statistics/

And 17 veteran suicides a day according the the VA 2019 stats. Those numbers had come down from there peak in 2017.

https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/suicide_prevention/data.asp
 
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This morning, I rode a big red float in the Veteran's Day Parade as we threw candy to the kids. Lots of people on the sidewalk thanked us for our service.

Thanks to all of you, and we appreciate all the restaurants that are handing out free food today.
 
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.
Lawrence Binyon
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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And comes the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, and lay ye yet aside the terrible engines of Mars for Pax's embrace. Yet ne'er forgetting Quo residium im pace praeparate para bellum.
 
CapnMac said:
And comes the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, and lay ye yet aside the terrible engines of Mars for Pax's embrace. Yet ne'er forgetting Quo residium im pace praeparate para bellum.
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A little bit perspective of time;
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album release was closer to WWI that today. It was released almost 48 years after WWI, and over 55 years ago of today.
 
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Dad.jpg
The two veterans I honor above all - Grandpa, who went through the most intense combat in The Great War with the Royal Canadian Expeditionary Force (at the time, a British citizen who'd been living in the U.S.) -- wounded twice -- never complained, just told us the funny stories, like bayoneting rats in the trenches, the water, the cold, but always put a humorous spin on things. Dad, who came of age near the end of WWII and was also recalled for the Korean Conflict. My heroes. The reasons I was proud to put on the uniform of my country every single day for 25 years.

I'll be raising a few glasses tonight in their honor, and in honor of all my brothers and sisters who served.
 
Connecting Veteran's day to RKBA. The first time I pulled the trigger on something that didn't run on air power was an M16A2. Been hooked ever since. I grew up in a rabidly anti-gun family and they still are to this day. The military and being a veteran opened me up to the world of firearms and so many other things they have never and will never understand. And I am okay with that.
 
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Happy Veterans Day everyone!

I just retired last month after 33 years in AF (6 AD and 27 reserves).


Is that an old frogman patch?
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No, it was the 106th Transportation Battalion in W. Germany. I was in Russelsheim, about 20 clicks from Rhein-Main AB. We had an annex on the airbase. We like the Air Force messhall better than our own. :)
 
herrwalther said:
Connecting Veteran's day to RKBA. The first time I pulled the trigger on something that didn't run on air power was an M16A2. Been hooked ever since. I grew up in a rabidly anti-gun family and they still are to this day. The military and being a veteran opened me up to the world of firearms and so many other things they have never and will never understand. And I am okay with that.
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I remember the 1st time I saw a 5.56 round, and thinking what's this going to do, put someone's eye out. :D
 
Happy veterans day to all, thank you for your service.

I was all set ho join, scored 98 on my asap test, was told I could have any job I wanted, except mp. I was too short. Blew a discount in my lower back a couple weeks before basic and my doctors wouldn't sign off as being fit for duty. 2 weeks after basic would have ended we entered desert storm.
 
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