Happy Veterans Day linkfest
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served our great nation. Thank you for your courage and dedication. Thank you for our freedom.
Miblogger tributes at Blackfive and Mudville Gazette.
Meet Cpl. Erin Liberty.
Invite a vet to dinner: Golden Corral is once again offering its 2008 Military Appreciation Monday dinner next Monday from 5 pm to 9 pm in all Golden Corral Restaurants.
The free “thank you” dinner is available to any person who has ever served in the United States Military. If you are a veteran, retired, currently serving, in the National Guard or Reserves, you are invited to participate in Golden Corral’s Military Appreciation Monday dinner.
To date, Golden Corral restaurants have provided over 1.8 million free meals and contributed over $2.53 million to the Disabled American Veterans organization.
Applebee’s is also offering free dinners for vets. Info here.
Support Wounded Warriors.
And to honor those now serving: Be a part of Operation Gratitude.
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Hate to add a sour note, but you really must read smear merchant John Murtha’s Veterans Days column to see chutzpah in action. The man is shameless.
Go to Defend Our Marines for the latest on the push to hold Murtha accountable for his words.
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Val Prieto gives thanks.
Move America Forward gives thanks with a special program for the troops.
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Anyone know why not all Applebee’s restaurants are participating? Some kind of franchise situation?
That’s disappointing. This is a military town without a single Applebee’s honoring the offer.
I like the idea of a family restaurant saluting veterans.
I meant Golden Corral! Happy Corral!?! Speaks to my good cheer. Sorry, Golden Corral! Love you guys.
Yes, Mr. Buckles (last WWI veteran) is a fellow Missourian. Actually his hometown & birthplace is only a few miles away from the highest ranking officer in the US Army (ever)birthplace & hometown; Gen. John J. ‘Blackjack’ Pershing (born in Laclede, MO).
Mizzou-RAH
Flyoverman
You have my deepest sympathies. There was a rifle company there of 3/5 Marines there…. but they were First MARDIV, is that possible?
Thanks. He was a good friend and a very good Marine. He could have been in 3/5. His parents are gone as are his letters to me. I need to look up Chuck Robb’s history and find out what BN he was in.
Flyoverman,
When I was a kid my stepfather was assigned to V Corps, US Army Europe which was headquartered in Frankfurt, West Germany. The motto of V Corps is “It shall be done!”
I have always thought they should now change that motto to “It HAS been done!” V Corps and VII Corps (in Heidelberg) faced off against the greatest evil the world has ever faced for nearly 50 years and they accomplished their mission!
Those men and women of the Armed Forces gave the chance of freedom to hundreds of millions of souls.
Happy Veterans Day to all the Veterans here!
Great video titled “The War Was in Color” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hdG6-5GfTg
I you can help note your branch.
Go Navy!
http://tcoverride.blogspot.com/2008/11/were-broke.html
For some reason the link thing didn’t work? Cut and paste – it’s worth it.
Don’t forget all you Vets how to BZO your weapon, and line of fire. A Commie is about to be sworn in on something.
Over
Give my regards to your stepfather. After Active Duty was in a USAR unit CAPSTONED to V Corps and went there 5 times from 1984 – 1991. Went to the Abrams building, Kibbs Kaserne, etc. in Frankfurt and Heidelberg. Mostly, I was at Weisbaden Air Base.
I saw the evil across the IGB. Your stepfather was in a great unit. I like the “It Has been Done.” APPROPRIATE.
OBTW, I often ask people how and why V Corps and VII Corps came and were in Europe. People have no clue when and why. Very interesting.
Mr. Buckles (WWI veteran)is a fellow Missourian, and born not far from another famous Missourian–Gen. John J. ‘Black Jack’ Pershing (who is from Laclede, Mo.).
I guess most people don’t remember that V Corps came ashore at Omaha Beach and VII Corps came ashor at Utah Beach at Zero Dark Thirty Hours on 6 June 1944.
I have met a few of the men you came ashore that day by plane and by LCI. These men risked it all and we owe them more than we will ever know.
test >:(
Well said War Eagle.
May God bless you all. Thank you for your service.
Between Korea and VietNam, I spent a hitch in NAC Engineers Office,Frankfort, West Germany.
I had the unique “honor” of turning the first spade of dirt for Rhein/Main Airport, having been dispatched early in the day with an entrenching tool to prepare the ground for the ceremonial turning of the ground with chrome plated shovels by dignitaries, including General “Nuts” McAullife.
lonewolf,
So much for any glory on that mission.
I entered Europe and left through Rhein Main AFB. As a kid I used to camp near the main runway. It was part of an old Luftwaffe base.
One day I was running around the woods and noticed all these holes in the ground. There were big craters everywhere as far my eyes could see. Suddenly I realized these holes were the bomb craters from WW2 caused by the Air Corps bombing the German air base. It made an impression on me.
Rhein Main AFB is gone now. The tower is gone and all the space has been turned over to the Frankfurt Airport. Europe is safe because of American veterans! Thanks!
from one vet to the others..thanks for all you’ve done in the past and what you will do in the future….your sacrifices can never be adequately repaid….
This says it all (thanks to brother, Larry for the video link).
Sorry about the link. To see, go to Youtube and search for:
THE WAR | American Anthem by Norah Jones | PBS
Leatheneck-
“Doc’s” got his 9mm and its laser sight is zeroed in at 40′.
So to my fellow Squids, Jar Heads, Grunts, Puddle Pirates and Zoomies take care and enjoy the day.
GSP
What a great photo with this article. Brings tears to my eyes.
Thank you to all veterans, past and present. Your sacrifice means more than perhaps you will ever know. To our bravest and finest, Godspeed.
WarEagle82,
I knew one of the guys who put them there.
He bombed Frankfurt twice.
May God Bless all of our veterans and our active duty troops in every branch of the United States Armed Services. Thank you for your service. This old boy is eternally grateful.
Well, let him know he pretty well bracketed the target! I just hope he wasn’t aiming for the IG Farben Building!
You mean sitting SIOP alert meant more than bad movies, all-out races from the BX on a klaxon, and “Vinyl Heaven”?
Orlo
Sorry,
325 BS, 92d Bomb Wing (Heavy)
Fairchild AFB, WA
SAC Crewdog
1988-1991, when then-TAC pulled a hostile takeover and absorbed SAC
I see they want resurrect SAC after the nuke transport debacle
I took my dad to lunch today. He was a 17 1/2 year recruit when he reported to Lackland on 24 June 1950. They woke them up the next morning…welcome to a shooting war. He was a radio operator on B-29s…
Also got to relay a Happy Veterans Day to my son the recently discharged HM3 (Corpsman) this evening.
Frankfurt in the mid 50s was still pockmarked with bomb craters and shells of buildings.
BTW, WarEagle, NAC Engineers office was in I.G.Farben building, fortunately spared by bombs, which has a unique vertical people mover system; non-stop, open front, two passenger “boxes” on endless loop, just step on and off at your floor. disconcerting the first time you fail to exit at either bottom or top of loop and descend or ascend into blackness, until you realize the boxes stay vertical.
If you go to Google Maps and look at the satellite of Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, you can still see all the bomb craters littering the area over 64 years later.
Talk about hitting you right in the heart.
Then there’s these too
Mark,
Yep those things too. Those who have never served never hear the “war stories” about the endless hours of nothing. I got to visit the Dew Line Station at Hall Beach once. That radar site, literally in the middle of nowhere above the Arctic Circle, had been active since 1959 and had never seen a hostile target. Guys were there for a year.
From a former NORAD air defender, thanks for being there.
The vertical people movers were called paternoster lifts. I have been there. It was the Abrams Building at that time and V Coprs HQ. It was spared from destruction, because Eisenhower needed a HQ Building for SHAEF when they captured Germany.
Look up IG Farben building on the web. Interesting info.
My favorite Air Force base growing up as a kid was Blytheville (later Eaker AFB shortly before it closed) AFB in Arkansas. Good ole’ Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber base. Tons of fun, loved it.
From this former Army Infantry grunt, thank you to all the vets who have served and still serve.