Veterans Fall In!

[oldwingrider]

usmc 1965 ===1971 viet nam 1967-68 door gunner med a vac

[oldwingrider]

semper fi----klevan

[cooperhawk]

Originally Posted by cooperhawk

Memorial Day is approaching and did you know that WWII Vets are dying at the rate of 2 thousand a day? A song has been written for them and it can be heard free of charge on the web. Let's honor them while we still can.
Click on this link!http://www.managedmusic.com/beforeyougo.html

COOPERHAWK U.S.Army, 34th Aviation Group, Viet Nam, 1965-1966

Let's keep this thread going. There has to be a lot of WWII Vets who are Airstreamers. They would be in their late seventies and older, but they are still here. Come on WWII Vets. SOUND OFF!

Another Veterans Memorial link: http://www.beforeyougo.us

[Zeppelinium]

My Father:
WWII: P-47 Pilot, shot down in France, evaded Germans for two months, Purple Heart
Korea: Silver Star for saving 22 soldiers and Marines at the Chosin Reservoir, took hits on every sortie, crashed behind Chinese lines and evaded back to allies
Viet Nam: Served at Long Binh and came to my squadron parties at Bien Hoa.
Retired with 33 years active duty, served as an enlisted man and officer.
He was 85 last Friday! You can't think of a practical joke he hasn't pulled.

Me: 17 Air Medals, 345 combat missions, and Purple Heart, Viet Nam.
Retired with 22 years service.
I am working on the practical joke list, but I'll never beat his.

[Charlie M]

USMC 1960 to 1963. Radio operator 2531. Headquarters Company 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, CA.

[Hawk_Man]

Chief Warrant Officer (Retired), United States Army, Special Forces

1982 - 1986: B Co/4/68 Armor, 82nd Airborne Division, redesignated 3/73 Armor, 82nd Airborne Division. Fort Bragg, NC
1986 - 1988: B Trp, 1/1 Cavalry, Swabach, FRG, Camp Reed, Camp May. Border Patrol trizonal region.
1989 - Special Forces Qualification Course,
October 1989 - Assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group.
Desert Shield - Desert Storm - 1991
Selected for Warrant Officer in 1996
Operation Desert Fox - 1998
Operation Enduring Freedom - 2001
Operation Iraqi Freedom - 2003
Retired 1 Jan 2005 after 22+ years.

Served on the following Operational Detachments:
ODA 581 (SR Engineer) 1989 - 1993
ODA 585 (SR Engineer - Intelligence Sergeant - Team Sergeant - Detachment Commander) 1993 - 1996, 1999 - 2003
ODA 594 (Assistant Detachment Commander) 1997 - 1999
Battalion S-3 (Battalion Operations Warrant) 2003 - 1 Jan 2005
Numerous operations in the Middle East in between the Big Four.

"True Brotherhood"

God, what a world, if men in street and mart
felt that same kinship of the human heart
Which makes them, in the face of fire and flood,
Rise to the meaning of True Brotherhood.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

God Bless the Veteran, Past, Present, and Future
for Freedom is Not Free, for all things have a price

God Bless and Safe Travels
De Oppresso Liber

Keith & Johnya

[cooperhawk]

Originally Posted by cooperhawk

Come on WWII Vets. SOUND OFF!

Another Veterans Memorial link: http://www.beforeyougo.us

Hear the song:

Wow, some really great memories of WWII vets. My Family had 7 of 9 brothers in WWII along with all 5 brothers-in-law. No, really they did. Check it out. My Father was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. I miss him every day.

http://www.cooperhawk.net
The family page, the war years, the cooper family.

[Ultradog]

Was cruising around this afternoon and went to the seb site of my old ship.
Saw this:
<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...LastVoyage.jpg" border="0" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket"></a>

It brings a tear...

[canny_banjo_man]

I went 2 join the Army in '69, & was waitin for paperwork when My M/Cycle & I had a nasty fight with a bus, I lost, & had too many broken bones 2b let in 2 serve, so I jus gave up, tho I WAS a Boy Scout for 4 years, & My Brother saw a poster back in '63, sayin, Join the Navy & C the WORLd... He spent almost NINE years in a SUBMARINE... I kn it don't count, But When He came Home on leave We had these FANTASTIC Parties, & We always ended up with a FEW American Sailors stayin over 4a few days, Great Guys, Great Days, Great Memories... & FANX 2U ALL, Past, Present & Future Forces who have Supported us Guys from 'Lil 'Ole England...Chris.....

[dijer]

Putting up American flag on the AS and thinking there must be some vets on this forum- sure 'nuff. Famililar names and places: Vandenberg, Annapolis GO NAVY, Camp Pendleton, Kaneohe MC Base, 29 Palms, Pearl Harbor, Air Force Academy, Moffett, Strategic Air Command, Patrick AFB - family full of vets and active. So THANKS VETS!

[azflycaster]

I thought it would be a good time to bump this thread. Today is my day off for Veteran's Day. Saturday is the holiday, but it is observed Friday. Since I work 4 X 10 with Friday off, today is my holiday. Happy veteran's day to me!

SSgt USAF 68-72

[kposey]

Happy Veterans Day to all our armed services! We can enjoy our freedoms because of you and I, for one, appreciate all that you have done and all that you still do!

[Pahaska]

Every Veterans Day, the Bayou Banjo Club of Houston has a reunion at Schulenburg to which any and all banjo players are invited. We have a pot-luck and jam on Friday night. Saturday evening, we will play a free concert that is widely avertised in the area; we often have 40 banjos and 300 or more attending. We always end the concert with a tribute to veterans. I leave tomorrow morning with the Airstream.

What makes me sad is that yesterday, out of the blue, I received an invitation to a yearly lunch where veteran musicians get together on Veterans Day. I want to go to that in the worst way, but I can't be two places at once.

[Poprivet]

Uss Cusk - Ss348
Uss Sam Rayburn Ssbn 635
Uss Robert E Lee Ssbn 601
Uss George Washington Carver Ssbn 656

Emc(ss)r

[asta2]

Enlisted in '82, Commissioned in '91 till and still serving, Bridget is also a Vet.

HOOAH,
S

[dinoburb]

Retired A-6E driver and Maintenance Officer '74 to '94.

Take care,

Sean

[Inland RV Center, In]

Thank all those that have served, as well as those that are serving our country to protect our freedoms.

Prayers to those that have made the ultimate sacrifice, so that most of us can enjoy our freedoms, while a few abuse them.

To those that may visit Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, please stop at the gift shop. They have many momentos of WW 2, and all are reasonably priced. Those funds are used to financially support the Memorial.

They also have for sale, our flag, with an attached certificate stating the date and time that flag flew over the Arizonal Memorial.

On my last month visit there, I was very fortunate to purchase another US flag that flew over the Memorial on 9-11-2006. What a collectors item.

The fuel oil is still rising, at an ever increasing rate, from the Arizona, to the extent that you can now smell it.

It has been down 65 years, and still bleeding as a reminder to all of us, of how very precious life is.

They also have a new 65th anniversary medallion.

Some survivors of the Arizona, upon their death, have chosen to also be buried on that memorial, so there are names slowly being added to the wall to this day.

A absolute "must see" for every veteran, and for those that wish to give thanks to those that have help defend our country and it's freedoms.

It's a "never forget" visit that is free of any charges.

Tears are usually shed, by the weak as well as the strong, while on the Memorial.

Bless all of those that have served.

Andy

[silver buffalo]

FTG3 - Gun Fire Control
1972-1974 on the USS White Plains AFS-4 home ported out of Sasebo, Japan then on to the USS Leonard F. Mason, DD-852 in San Diego thru 1975.

THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE SERVED!

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE AMERICA.

[Roscinante]

I was a Chief Warrant Officer (W4) in the U.S. Coast Guard completing 26 years service including 7 years sea duty. Finished my career at the Coast Guard Training Center in Petaluma, CA in 1999. Now I work for the company recently voted the best place to work in America - GENENTECH - at their Vacaville, CA manufacturing operations facility.

[tfm37]

Regular U. S. Army, Signal Corp. 1957 to 1960..
served in South Korea and California.