On Veterans Day I thank and honor all those who have served in the U.S. military(me being in the Marines in the Vietnam Era) Please take the time to thank service members everywhere who have selflessly served our country in war and peacetime. We will never be able to fully repay our debt of gratitude to all those service members who died or were wounded in battle. We can however, recognize and thank the veterans living today and remember to support those now serving.
God Bless You Are 
For all members here who have served in the military THANK YOU!
I’ll second (third) that!
Here’s a Vet of WW2 (my father in law)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/bob3160/ShellFTP/Veteran.png
The picture was taken in Sept. While he, 2 of my girls and Alice where in Grand Canyon.
“Sempur Paratus” to the personel of the branch I served with.
Have a good one Neal63 and thank you for doing your best for our country 
Semper Paratus–translation Always Ready–is the Coast Guard’s motto and the title of its service song. No one seems to know exactly how it was chosen as the Coast Guard’s motto. But there is no doubt as to who put the famous motto to words and music.
Captain Francis Saltus Van Boskerck wrote the words in the cabin of the cutter Yamacraw in Savannah, Ga., in 1922. He wrote the music five years later on a beat-up old piano in Unalaska, Alaska.
For probably as long as Captain Van Boskerck could remember, Semper Paratus had been a Revenue Cutter and Coast Guard watchword. The words themselves, always ready or ever ready, date back to ancient times.
No official recognition was given to the Coast Guard motto until it appeared in 1910 on the ensign. Captain Van Boskerck hoped to give it as much recognition as “Semper Fideles” of the Marines and “Anchors Away” of the Navy
A heartfelt THANK YOU! to those who have served and to those who are serving. I am in your debt.
Have A Good Day “EVERYONE”
Also and originally known as Armistice Day. The 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. November 11, 1918. The end of World War I. It is actually an international day of remembrance. I know this because my grandfather was in the trenches of France at that moment. They climbed out of their trenches and started trading food and other things with the Germans. Things we take for granted.
Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11, 1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.The date was a national holiday in many of the former allied nations to allow people to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. After World War II, it was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations. In many parts of the world, people take two minutes of silence at 11:00am as a sign of respect, as suggested by Edward George Honey in a letter to a British newspaper though Wellesley Tudor Pole established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.
Thank a veteran today. Doesn’t matter the war or time of peace that he or she served in. Doesn’t matter the branch of the service he or she served in.
It only matters that they served. On behalf of all of us. Even those of us who opposed wherever they went, for whatever cause they were sent forth.
We all owe thanks to a veteran this day, for so much of what we have the liberty to take for granted, and sadly shouldn’t. It came at such a cost for so many others.
Many more veterans come home than don’t; the many more who do come home, tend to insist that the real heroes are still “over there”: Belleau Wood. Meuse-Argonne. In the USS Arizona Memorial. At the bottom of Sunda Strait. At Guadalcanal. At the bottom of Iron Bottom Sound. On New Guinea. Tarawa. Guam. Saipan. Pelielu. Iwo Jima. Luzon and Leyte. Okinawa. Kasserine Pass. Sicily. Salerno. Anzio. Omaha Beach. St. Lo. Eindhoven. Nijmegen. Hurtgen Forest. Bastogne. Osan. Taegu. Taejon. The Pusan Perimeter. Inchon. Chosin Reservoir. Chipyong-ni. Heartbreak Ridge. Porkchop Hill. Ia Drang Valley. Hamburger Hill. Hue. Beirut. Grenada. Panama. Kuwait. Bosnia. Afghanistan. Iraq.
It’s not always easy to convince a humble, modest veteran that he/she is just as much a hero, and owed thanks for having done their duty.
Thank 'em, anyway.
Thank especially those who’ve seen the ugly, unremitting face of the monster of war, and have come home with not all their scars on the surface; they carry their wounds deep within. That they have faced the lowest form of human primal instinct, and come home to become useful and productive members of society, speaks volumes about the character and fortitude they took forth into the maelstrom.
Even the hideous, demeaning cretin of war could not strip them of their better qualities. These are heroes, indeed. The “Greatest Generation” is replete with them. So is each following generation of servicemen and women.
Thank you Dan.
Thank you Neal.
And thanks to all the nameless warriors who’ve made the world a safer place.
“Retreat, hell! We’re attacking in a different direction!”
- Maj Gen OP Smith, USMC Chosin Reservoir
“Retreat, hell! We just got here!”
- Captain Lloyd Williams USMC, Belleau Wood
“My buddies are still there”
- PFC Charles A Martin, USA Remembering Meause Argonne Offensive fifty years later.
“If you ever join the Marines I’ll kick your f*cking ass!”
- My brother, (R.I.P.) serving with the USMC near Da Nang 1966/67. I later joined the Air Force.
I am sorry to be late with posting this. But …
Thank you to each and every person who has served their country in the interest of freedom for all!
This morning on TV I have watched a Remembrance at the Cenotaph in London for the 90th anniversary of the ending of WW1.
Present at the ceremony were three surviving veterans of that war, aged 112, 110 and 108 years, whilst all are frail and wheelchair bound for the wreath laying, it was very moving.
They were accompanied by some of today’s serving soldiers, all with bravery decorations, a Royal Marine awarded the Military Cross, A Lance Corporal awarded the Victoria Cross and a female Flight Lieutenant awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7720601.stm
Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108, represented the RAF, Army and Royal Navy respectively at a ceremony at London's Cenotaph. ...... Accompanying the veterans throughout were their modern representatives: Marine Mkhuseli Jones, who holds the Military Cross; Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry, who has the Victoria Cross; and Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman, a holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross.
My Thanks to all veterans for their service, You make the world a safer place.
My Thanks to all veterans for their service, You make the world a safer place.Thanks Kissman :)
Hi Dan,
I second Kissman here,
Damian