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empirejimempirejim Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
edited October 2011 in US Military Veteran Forum
I just wanted to say "Thank You" to all of you for your service. I know that it is because of all of you that I enjoy the freedoms I often take for granted. As for me and my family we will always hold all of you in high esteem for your service and sacrifice. Know that you are loved and greatly appreciated.

jim
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you...it was our honor.
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Thank you...it was our honor.


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  • omansbomansb Member Posts: 34 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jim, Thank you, you don't know what a simple thank you can do. I loved my time in the service and find myself missing it today. Knowing that there are citizens that really GET IT is a wonderful feeling.
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  • 2cavmack2cavmack Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Omansb, You took the words right out of my mouth. And thanks impirejim.
    I served myself 9 years, Most of it garding the east German border during the cold war days of the 80's. Then dessert storm. And I was and still am proud of what we did. (May all the boys that did not make it rest in peace) And Let's hope peace will come soon for the Boys on the front today.

    SPC Daniel McDowell (Macforce) Toujours Pret...
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  • Follow MeFollow Me Member Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • omansbomansb Member Posts: 34 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Daniel, There are a lot of Americans that truely don't get it. If I thought it would actually happen I would be a supporter of a subscription service. I'm sure that there would be something politically incorrect, discriminatory, or oppressive about that notion to most people, but they sure would 'get it' then.
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  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks Vets!
    Carry on...
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  • omansbomansb Member Posts: 34 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I find myself more often than not missing those days.
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  • COBmmcmssCOBmmcmss Member Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks.

    I've made it a point to say "Thank You" to every service member I meet as I continue through life.

    I will step out of my way to go and thank a vet. My wife understands and "tolerates" my changes of vector when I spot another vet.

    I even had the good fortune to thank a man the other week who served in the 101st with my mother's cousin Jim, back in WW-II at the famous Battle of Bastogne. He knew and worked with Jim (who passed away back in 1999). I used to sit and listen to Jim and my dad (also an Army vet) talk for hours about their life both before and after service.

    You never know who you'll meet or make smile.

    COB
    USN Ret.
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  • DergaSmashDergaSmash Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is always a very fullfilling feeling as a result of the "Thank You for serving" statement. It is always nice to know that military service is appreciated.

    I'm an enlisted Army practical nurse on Active Duty, stationed at Fort Polk Louisiana. It was said best above, and I feel the same. It is an honor to serve my country and fellow Americans.
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  • CbtEngr01CbtEngr01 Member Posts: 4,340
    edited November -1
    A "thank you" makes it worth it
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this spring my grandson went to the state geography bee at salina, ks & we stopped at mickey dees for a mid morn coffee...scoped out the longest table there with an old gent with a cane & asked if this was the liars table...he laughed & said yep, they met every morn..turns out he was one of a recon team ,jeep with 50 & half track or truck ?? ahead of patton across germany to austrian border...91 years old & sharp as a tack..most interesting then we went on to the eisenhower center....thanked him with respect..
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  • Alan RushingAlan Rushing Member Posts: 8,805 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    empirejim I can't think of many situations or occassions when a "thank you", does not anyone feel even bertter. So, "thank you", for the thoughts and words, also!
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  • SNAKEBIT1522SNAKEBIT1522 Member Posts: 12 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A thank you is all I ever wanted.
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  • SNAKEBIT1522SNAKEBIT1522 Member Posts: 12 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you think being in the military was thankless, try being a cop for years in Metro Atlanta. Those people not only never say thank you, they try and sue you and then screw you for doing your job! We just lost a Georgia State Patrolman the other night on a traffic stop. The guy that was arrested for it has 19 prior arrests and was released again only 2 weeks ago! The system is broke. The criminal element in this country hates us (military and law enforcement) and there are more and more of them every day.

    Lex Malla, Lex Nulla
    Semper Fidelis Lex
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  • melkormelkor Member Posts: 191 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Your welcome , go to college or learn a trade. If U want to work for the corporations work at a desk not a battlefield.
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  • telohftelohf Member Posts: 912 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you very much for your service. Those words seem feeble and weak compared to the sacrafices of all those who have served and are serving.

    But from this grateful American...I do say thank you! And if any of you ever find yourself on the Oregon Coast, look me up and I will see what I can do about setting you up with an ATV ride on the sand or a fishing trip in the Ocean.
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  • rawhide54rawhide54 Member Posts: 432 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A good way for folks to start saying "thanks" is to tell our scumbag politicians to keep their hands off military pensions and VA disability benefits.

    I just got my MOAA magazine and it details Senate bills calling for a 5% reduction in military retirement by 2012 increasing to a 19% cut by 2016. Those same cuts apply to SBP (survivors benefits, i.e. widows), concurrent receipt (VA disability) and other VA benefits. AND, these were the LEAST extreme proposals for "cost savings."

    This is what happens when pratically no one in Congress has ever worn the uniform. We need the general public to spread the word and tell these Washington jerks to keep their hands off the benefits we earned at such a high price.
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  • Jim RauJim Rau Member Posts: 3,550
    edited November -1
    You are welcome. I just wish more people would come this conclusion. I have many friends who did not serve. This does not in any way make them any less worthy of the freedoms the Bill Of Rights is supposed to guarantee us.[^]
    We all have a up hill battle here and now to get those freedoms back for the current government![V]
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  • sovereignmansovereignman Member Posts: 544 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by us55840
    A thank you was never heard when I returned home in 1968 - in fact, you were better off if no one even knew you were ever in the military.

    The ONLY place anyone has ever offered a 'thank you' is on the net - and never to my face, not even at the American Legion I've belonged to for years.

    I know in my heart I did what this country required of me, honorably, and that covers it.


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