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Thanks for saving us from the evil...

God Bless our wonderful Veterans (especially those on this forum!)
You are the real heros!!

I was hoping to get a poppy pin this year. Unfortunately my constant, never ending sickness and my feet prevented me from going out to buy one.

However I don't think a poppy pin has to be a requirement to remember. I certainly won't forget them.

"Dr. Jerk" wrote:I was hoping to get a poppy pin this year. Unfortunately my constant, never ending sickness and my feet prevented me from going out to buy one.

However I don't think a poppy pin has to be a requirement to remember. I certainly won't forget them.

Have a coke or a beer or a twinkie or a burger. Watch a movie. Have a toast of wine and salute them. Through them we were saved from the Nazi.

Today my school marching band marched at a small veteran's day parade in my small town of Alliance.

my parents are veterans a they served in the Gulf and my moms dad was in the Vietnam war

If only the orriginal purpose of this day would come true...



World War I ended the eleventh month, the eleventh day, the eleventh hour of 1918 and people prayed it would have been the war to end all wars.

So Armastice Day was created in the belief that there would be no more veterans because World War I ended war because of it's horrors.



Not so...the aftermath of that war allowed Hitler to take power and in less than 12 years after he did we saw another titanic war.



And on and on and on...

As a veteran who saw combat in the 1991 Gulf War and in Somalia in 1993 I think every day and pray almost every day for the escaping peace so dreamed of by my Great Grandfather's generation almost 100 years ago. Veterans day is truely a day of thanks but it should also be a day of prayer that someday we will have no more Veterans, no more tomb stones at Arlingon, no more taps, no more tearfull mothers, no more crying children and no more men and women missing parts of their bodies.

Some day I hope we're all sick of war.

Dan Rush
USN Vet

are you the same Dan Rush on FanFiction.net? where i am called "Magnacarter"?

@Dannavy -- beautifully expressed. I never knew my dear uncle - a hero of Battle of the Bulge. War is horrific, and I share in your prayer for peace. I also feel humbled and grateful for those of you who stepped up to face the horror for the rest of us.

@Astronomical Girl -- yeah, that's him. He's a awesome writer.

"cybotron" wrote:
Thanks for saving us from the evil...

Anyone notice the "2007" at the top of the pic? lol