Nov 10, 04 10:14 pm — To Those Who Have Served and Those Who are Serving
I thank you
Being stationed in Idaho while in the Navy does not make you a vet.
I was in Pensacola Florida, and Chicago Illinois. Tardcracker.
Being stationed in the Texas with the Air National Guard during Vietnam doesn't make you vet either.
Okay I'll stop making fun of the person I voted for. 
We call it Remebrance Day.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
- John McCrae
Beautiful poem, Newfie.
Beautiful sentiments Andy. Are you an Aussie?
Cheers! Luvvly Jubberly! 
I thought my avatar may have given it away! 
Apparently it wasn't transparent enough for her.
I noticed but isn't the Aussie symbol similar?
Oh well, my mistake. Sorry about that.
Cheerio, chap.
Don't forget
to honor a vet!
Happy Vet's Day to all veterans no matter what their service or how long their service. Today is for them with no questions asked.
Happy Veterans Day. 
I plan on thanking my older sister. She has 5 point veteran status for flying in several planes with their air crews in 1995 and 1996 over Iraq when the hippies say there was no war going on. She says occasionally the SAMS would lock onto their plane, but it was mostly done to harrass them than actually threaten them with being shot down I'm told.
She stayed in Turkey in a tent city for 3 months while she was there. The ground was about 8 inches of mud and it was cold and raining almost constantly. Little or no phone, and no internet. They did have her bunk with a gay guy, and she said that was fun. Thats as much war time as she has seen, but its more than most people would want to go through even camping or out catching a deer.
I'm a big tough redneck, but I hate it when its below like 65....
Happy Veterans Day to all of our Veterans
G-d Bless her Jizzmasterzero. Your family must be very proud.
We are!! She has come a long was since I was a little kid.
She has been in the military for about 15 years now, and is actually pretty close to getting out. Maybe in the next 5 years or so, as she is almost ranked out with out becoming an officer.
hahahahaha
I ran out of time or I would have put this in as well.
My uncle (my favorite uncle btw) was in the Navy in Vietnam. Hes going to be 60 next april, and he had the misfortune of marrying 3 dead beat women since he got out of the navy. This last one has bled him dry financially. He works 12 hour days sometimes outside to make ends meet. He is one person that will be getting a huge check if I ever win that damn powerball, or make something of myself.
My wifes friends dad is a veteran as well. A combat wounded veteran just like John F Kerry!! Well, not exactly, as this guy still has bullet fragments in him, and Kerrys bruises have healed.
God bless them all. Except Kerry.
::grin::
That was back when Saddam was boxed in and not much of a threat to anyone but his own people. The no-fly policy was started by the first President Bush and maintained aggressively by President Clinton, but rejected by the current President Bush because of all the phantom WMD's that Saddam had supposedly accumulated while we were watching him every minute for 10 years.
JMZ, it wasn't hippies who didn't believe in the policy of containment for Iraq. It was the Bush II chicken-hawk neocons, like Cheney who predicted, with his usual level of accuracy, that Saddam was 6 months away from having nuclear weapons. This at a time when Iraq's nuclear facillity was already abandoned and looted.
Where do you get your facts? Your ass?....
That, or Dan Rather.....
Mostly from paying attention at the time these things happened.
For example, I say Cheney on TV live on the Sunday morning talking head shows like Eat The Press saying that Iraq was 6 months from having nuclear weapons.
I don't watch Steely Dan Rather. I stopped watching that pastuerized homoginized packaged product of the network news many years ago, when I realized how much they were processing the news to fit various news categories. Hard news, human interest, and so on but never a real sense of what was actually going on.
I prefer to listen to press conferences or interviews where a newsworthy person, such as Cheney in this case, speaks for himself. And I try to remmebe what that person said, so I could compare it to future events. Cheney went on a great length about Saddams reconstituted nuclear program, which turned out to be a figment of his imagination. Nothing that he said turned out to be true. I don't have to take anyones word for it. I heard him say it all himself.
Why do you ask? Do you still believe any of the cover stories they told you about why we went to war in Iraq? Do you think those unpiloted drone planes could hit the mainland US with chemical weapons? (That was part of Colin Powells bogus speach to the UN)
Remember.
[Comment was edited by TrulyCdn on November 11, 2004 at 09:59:36 AM]
The Canadian 3rd Infantry Division and the 2nd Armoured Brigade stormed Juno beach in Normandy in 1945, among other things. 
You can't argue with an idiot, shiva.
Oh by the way, you and I need to talk about something.
Stop hitting on me, you fag.
One page that is, sorry was, complete unbiased and simply about giving recognition to those who deserve has now been tainted by your lack of decency. Bravo! You must make someone very proud.
Perhaps if you take a moment to research it you will be able to find the answer to what you have asked. Good luck with that.
Don't be so hard on yourself.
You're not an idiot.
You're just insane.
Gee thanks, Shiva, you condescending son of a bitch.
Only for you.
Right back atcha, bad boy .
err it was Canadians that won that war
Juno had a beach?
I thought they just had email.
I just watched part of the parade going up Fifth Ave. trying to find a webcam pic. It's pretty cool. 
Gee, while you are on Fifth Avenue, maybe you could pick up a tie for me at my favorite store there. I don't get to NY very often (only twice since early 2003) and I really like the neckties at a certain store there.
Actually, I was talking about Brooks Brothers.
Cool, they have an online store.
This is awesome.....
This should go to every veteran you know -- and every family that has someone in the service. Turn up the sound -- and be grateful (and more than a little inspired)....
Veterans Day
[Comment was edited by softgentleraine on November 11, 2004 at 09:46:04 PM]
nobodyfamous
You're welcum.