Veteran's Day

[hugo_sam]

It's Veterans Day in the United States. It is closely related, although not the same as Rememberance Day in Canada, and maybe elsewhere.
Here is a place for all of the lit Veterans to be both recognized for their service and for other litizens to offer any thanks they choose, if they choose, to the veterans.

Even though this is a U.S, Holiday, I would like to open it up to all litizens of any country. This can include veterans dear to some ones heart that are not on lit (i.e. father, mother, sibling, grand, etc.etc.)
I would like all the Vets to list their time in service, years, branch, job, last/highest rank, combat/non-combat and anything else they desire.

This is NOT a place to debate the pro and cons of the military. Use another thread.

Happy Veteran's Day Holiday to all and a special thank you to all that served in any country, any era, any branch. Thank You

 

[hugo_sam]

Hugo

U.S. Army - 1983 - 1990
Field Artillery

Stationed: U.S. and Germany (FRG)

E6/SSG Staff Sergeant, Howitzer Gun Chief

No Combat

 

[entitled]

Grandpa

inducted 22 January 1941
honorable discharge (medical) 22 October 1945
died 16 March 1994

157th Regiment, 45th Division, Army

Dad

served in the 1st Artillary in Vietnam, though i don't know any more than that
he never talked about it

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Rumple Foreskin

U.S. Army - 1968 - 1970

Infantry

Stationed: U.S. and Vietnam

Squad Leader - Recon - Americal Div - I Corps

Combat - Purple Heart - (didn't say I was any good)

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question for Lit's Limey's and Canuks: When is Remembrance Day?

 

[RogueLurker]

Rumple Foreskin

U.S. Army - 1968 - 1970

Infantry

Stationed: U.S. and Vietnam

Squad Leader - Recon - Americal Div - I Corps

Combat - Purple Heart - (didn't say I was any good)

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question for Lit's Limey's and Canuks: When is Remembrance Day?

Today ... On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Canadians pause for a minute of silence in order to remember Canadians who sacrificed their lives in wars and peacekeeping missions.

Although you don't see it as much as you used to (except for Canadian Forces personnel) during the first part of November, a poppy is worn on the lapel as a gesture of respect and rememberance. The poppy is used because of the poem In Flanders Fields, but I'm not sure if other countries follow this tradition as well.
Remembrance Day

 

[johngalt47]

Could I have done this

My great-grandfather was a drummer boy in the Union Army at the Battle of Shiloh. His regiment was one of the first attacked by the Confederates. At 15 years old, he stood beating assembly as the line of butternut-clad soldiers fired and advanced toward him. That day one of his two friends who he enlisted with was killed and he was wounded and eventually discharged. Tough old bird. He was the last Union veteran alive in Ohio when he died in 1937.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Today ... On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Canadians pause for a minute of silence in order to remember Canadians who sacrificed their lives in wars and peacekeeping missions.

Although you don't see it as much as you used to (except for Canadian Forces personnel) during the first part of November, a poppy is worn on the lapel as a gesture of respect and rememberance. The poppy is used because of the poem In Flanders Fields, but I'm not sure if other countries follow this tradition as well.
Remembrance Day

Thanks, RL. That was one of my dumber questions. What's even worse, the answer never dawned on me until I say Rob's Remembrance Day thread.

Some vets organization here in the states sell poppies.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Recidiva]

My father served in the army, he taught military strategy. He met my mother during World War 2, her phone number was given to him to call when he was stationed in her area. She turned him down, but he was persistent. They're still married, four kids, I'm the youngest.

My brother served, he went to Annapolis, the Naval Academy, served on a nuclear submarine as an officer. He married a woman who was a marine. They have four kids, both their boys are pilots. Their son Alan served a tour in Fallujah and is home safe now.

My husband was in the army as special forces and was stationed in Germany where he handled encryption coding for nuclear missles.

I respect and love these gentlemen and women and the sacrifices they've made for their country and the families I know they love.

 

[RogueLurker]

Thanks, RL. That was one of my dumber questions. What's even worse, the answer never dawned on me until I say Rob's Remembrance Day thread.

Some vets organization here in the states sell poppies.

Rumple Foreskin

I wouldn't say it was a dumb question ... for some reason or other, I always thought that the American "Veterans Day" was another day that you celebrated (if that's the right word) in addition to Remembrance Day.

 

[Recidiva]

I wouldn't say it was a dumb question ... for some reason or other, I always thought that the American "Veterans Day" was another day that you celebrated (if that's the right word) in addition to Remembrance Day.

No, I'm an American and I have no idea what Remembrance Day is.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

No, I'm an American and I have no idea what Remembrance Day is.

Recidiva & Rogue: Remembrance Day and the US Veteran's Day both occur on 11/11 each year. However, I believe Remembrance Day is closer in spirit to the US Memorial Day.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[AppleBiter]

To all the brave men and women out there who have served and are currently surving their country . . .

God bless you and thank you.

http://nandotimes.nandomedia.com/ips_rich_content/568-veterans_day_10.jpg

http://wesupportthevets.com/ww2vet.jpg​

 

[SeaCat]

To my father,

E-6, Untied States Army, Golden Arrows, Pathfinders, Airborn. (Resigned 1964 god bless him.) Two hearts.

To my brother,

Major, United States Army, Nurses Corp. Resigned two years ago.

To my uncle,

United States Navy, Medical Officer, Subs.

To my other Uncles and Nephews, German Army.

God bless you all. I have fought with you, as well as alongside you. You have my respect and my undying loyalty.

Cat

 

[carsonshepherd]

My grandpa was a second-generation German immigrant. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was with a motorcycle corps (tank escort) who liberated a concentration camp, I think in Poland. He never talked about it, except with my mom, his daughter-in-law. He brought home Nazi medals, Nazi armbands and other battlefield memorabilia that we were allowed to touch when we were young, so we would know what they were and what they represented. I wonder how he felt, fighting against his own homeland.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

My grandpa served in the Pacific Theatre. Today he has screaming flashbacks under mild stimulae of the war. He is relieving the war. He is entirely supported by my uncle. The government, the country, that used him up, couldn't give less than a shit about him. We love him, recognize his sacrifice and the sacrifice of those that never got a chance to be veterans. I spent last night on the phone with him, telling him that I love him.

It is good we had a day like that. A day to sit down and recognize what supporting one's troops really means and understanding that the war never really ends for the veterans.

 

[carsonshepherd]

A day to sit down and recognize what supporting one's troops really means and understanding that the war never really ends for the veterans.

well said

I live with a veteran of Desert Storm, USMC. He never talks about it. He tells me I don't need to know about what happened "over in the desert" but I know he relives it often.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Carson, Lucifer,

Thanks for caring.

Carson, not that it really matters, but odds are the concentration camp your grandfather helped liberate was in southern Germany or Austria. Poland was pretty well wrapped up by the Russian Army.

Lucifer, many WWII vets endured decades of pain before PTSD was recognized. Even then, not enough were helped. Part of their problem was the all the patriotic hooray that accompanied the end of "the good war."

Rumple Foreskin