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Veterans' Day Freebies

Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2019 in General Discussion
Here is just one link to a list of restaurants and other places that offer "Thank You" meals and deals for veterans. LINK

I always go to my local Applebees and sit at the bar. It's a pleasure to talk to fellow vets, get a nice lunch, and chat with the pretty bartendress.

Enjoy the day, my brothers and sisters. Crisp salute to you all.
I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sharing a meal has been one of the best human interactions since Og and friends gnawed a mastodon rib together. Still is, whether the meal is an MRE or a full turkey spread. If it's shared with fellow veterans, there are no strangers at the table. All family.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Quick&DeadQuick&Dead Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nice if you live in a big or bigger city.

    Most of those places have never heard of.

    Of those I have heard of, would have to drive over 200 miles to get there and not worth it.

    I'm just pleased there are some business owners who acknowledge our military veterans.

    No problem, I'm fine. 8-)
    The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
    We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

    I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,938 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    @ my office we (Veterans) host an MRE lunch- giving away and feeding everyone an MRE to eat for lunch and showing them how to do so.

    I damn near died laughing last year when I fed my VP a Jambalaya and Shrimp MRE!
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I never much cared for the MRE''s not that the c-rats were any better it is just that can of fruit had juice in it and you could wash the nasty taste of the meat portion down with it, then eat the fruit. I remember a large round chocolate covered cookie/cracker thing in some for desert, it wasn't bad. I drank my share of c-rat instant coffee too, got to where it was almost good by the time I got out.....
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  • US Military GuyUS Military Guy Member Posts: 3,645 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    KenK/84Bravo wrote:
    Yes. The "Chocolate cake," was NHL worthy of Puck play. :o :shock: :? :D:lol: :roll:

    Almost as good as the "Crackers." ;)

    I always told my soldiers that in a pinch you could put the crackers in your uniform breast pockets - field expedient body armor.

    :D
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    MRE's have come a long way. When I entered the Army we still had C=rats and LRRPs then when the MRE came around they really sucked. But by the time I was retiring(06) they were not too bad.

    I started my Vets day Freebie today and gave my Truck a free oil change and cut my grass for free ;)
    RLTW

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  • Quick&DeadQuick&Dead Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ate "C" rations in the army, mid 60's. They would keep one alive with some nourishment.

    The mess hall food wasn't to bad at the jungle line camps in SE Asia.

    I liked the sign in one mess hall at the 94th Evac Hospital headquarters in Ft. Lewis,Washington. "Take all you want and eat all you take."
    The BIG mess hall Sgt was always standing by the tray dump station too. The trays were normally bare of any food. ;)
    The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
    We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

    I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My active duty time was pre-MRE, but we did get a few MCI (erroneously called C-Rats) and LRRP meals. But mostly, we ate in chow halls.

    These days, I genuinely like MREs and the "lite" version TOTMs. But only once in a while. I ate nothing but MREs on an extended fishing trip once, and it was not very enjoyable. Monotonous, and with no fiber to speak of, they really back you up. They are also very high in sodium; fine if you are age 20 and doing heavy exertion but not so good otherwise.

    All that is off topic, however.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • bearman49709bearman49709 Member Posts: 503 ✭
    edited November -1
    I had to eat one MRE when they first came out, nasty would never eat one again. Fortunately I got C-rats my last 2 1/2 years I was in.

    Veterans day I'm joining two of my granddaughters, one is 16 the other 6, at their school for lunch.
    It's about 35 miles one way so about two hours driving, spending time with them and eating school food.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was indeed full of "it" after several days of MREs, Ken. But no traffic jam lasts forever, right?

    It's been almost 40 years since the MRE was introduced (hard to believe!) and they have changed a LOT since the early ones. They were never intended as a full-time ration, and are nutritionally poor if used that way. They are high-carb, high sodium energy bombs meant for young men carrying heavy gear in combat - for short periods. The new ones taste pretty good to encourage troops to eat all of each one.

    Now, can we please get back to Veterans' Day activities?
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I never have gotten or attempted to get a veteran's freebie, it's just me I'm sure but I always felt uncomfortable with the idea of playing on my service to our country for personal gain.
    Nothing wrong with it I guess, just not for me.
    Now, thanking me for my service has always made me feel proud.
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    But that's exactly what the meals are. They are thanking you for your service, no more and no less. Going in to enjoy it is how we say "You're welcome." Spurning their gift is almost rude.

    And while there, you get to swap war lies, funny stories, and other military secrets. You'll have a good time, and you can return the favor by leaving a whopping big tip.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had not looked at it that way.

    BTW all of my lies ...... I mean eye witness accounts, have at least some parts that may be true. ;)
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm glad you now see it in a new light. So pick one and go.

    BTW, most war stories start with "This is no lie..." which is, of course, a lie.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rocky I agree with your last line, leave a whopping big tip, since I am getting the meal free if waitress is nice I will usually leave the equivalent of the price of the meal for tip........
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So do I, my brother. I order a drink and add $20 to the tab. (The very nice and comely bartendress tells me Vets' Day is the biggest tip day of the year for all of them. So we're not alone.)
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • bearman49709bearman49709 Member Posts: 503 ✭
    edited November -1
    KenK/84Bravo wrote:
    bearman49709 wrote:
    I had to eat one MRE when they first came out, nasty would never eat one again. Fortunately I got C-rats my last 2 1/2 years I was in.

    Veterans day I'm joining two of my granddaughters, one is 16 the other 6, at their school for lunch.
    It's about 35 miles one way so about two hours driving, spending time with them and eating school food.



    You drive 35 mph?

    I get behind people, like you all the time, driving my 33 mi. (Each way) commute. :roll:

    What part of driving there and back, spending time with my granddaughters and eating school food = about two hours don't you understand?
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  • bearman49709bearman49709 Member Posts: 503 ✭
    edited November -1
    KenK/84Bravo wrote:
    bearman49709 wrote:
    KenK/84Bravo wrote:




    You drive 35 mph?

    I get behind people, like you all the time, driving my 33 mi. (Each way) commute. :roll:

    What part of driving there and back, spending time with my granddaughters and eating school food = about two hours don't you understand?





    Uhmnn...........................................maybe the part, where it took you 2 hours, to drive 70 miles.

    Sorry. Not looking to offend you.

    Merely doing the math on what you stated, you did.
    I never said I took two hours to drive 70 miles, if you could read you would see I said driving 70 miles, spending time with my granddaughters and eating would take about two hours.
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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's a pizza place in our town that offers 25% off every day for Vets, active duty, L E O, Firemen, and paramedics.
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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