Re: 🇺🇸 Veterans Day 🇺🇸

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:
Daddy,Hubbs,Son all vets. I am so proud of them.

When Daddy came home from WW2 no one cared about vets. Things have changed and I am glad. I can still see (in my minds eye) Daddy marching in the parades. He was a member of the VFW and the American Legion.
Daddy also served on the Draft Board during Vietnam. He would get calls in the middle of the night.

Thank you all for your service.

@Group 5 minus 1

Thanks to all your family members for their service to our country. 🇺🇸

For you to say: "WW2 no one cared about vets"! I don't know how old you are, but I am 83. My brother-in-law fought in WWII in the Army Air Corp. He was a tail gunner on a B-29 Superfortress, the same as the infamous Enola Gay.

My sister married him right of high school. When he was discharged from the AAC, he was not forgotten. He got help purchasing their home. The same with his Bachelors Degree/Masters Degree and his Doctorate Degree.

Now Vietnam was a completely different story. The Vets were noticed, many even called traitors because they served. Protests/Draft Cards Burned/Moving to the North to avoid serving, and appreciated. AND! How about Scorned!

I flunked high school primarily because of world history. American history, I quit high school to join the United States Army. But my heroes were/are still all WWII Vets, who we are losing by the day.

I salute every Vet, past and present, living and in death. The forgotten ones served in Vietnam, not WWII. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

hckynut 🇺🇸🇺🇸

hckynut(john)

Junebug54 · ‎03-09-2010

@Cakers3 Thank you to all veterans... my father, husband and son all vets too... Bless them all.

Boomernichols · ‎11-22-2013

@JeanLouiseFinch Thankful and grateful for your service Veterans!!! My step father who was in the Marines for 17 years, I miss you daily and know you are in good hands now. He passed away from complications from pneumonia and Parkinsons.

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

@hckynutjohn Old enough to remember how vets were treated. No discounts,no thank you for your service,no family members being proud. I am glad about the mortages,etc

but a lot of vets were ignored. Daddy worked hard to give some dignity to vets. He died in a veterans hospital. I still have his poppy which he wore on his lapel. It was a gift from the VFW. Also have a photo of him welcoming home the first VM vet to our little home town. I have to stop. I miss Daddy every day.

John,thank you for your kind words. I am tearing up.

new nickname 4 · ‎05-21-2018

@hckynutjohn , Thank YOU for your service. I am just a little younger than you, and saw the Vietnam unfolding when I was graduating. As a woman, I was not required to serve, and I (shamefully) was relieved that I didn't have to. I didn't have the courage, yet some of my friends did, or were forced into serving. None came back, and for that I am still ashamed that I lived while they didn't.

My heros are the many who had/have the courage to join the military (especially in todays military world). My uncles, my aunt, my friends, my nephew, and my niece and husband (who committed military suicide after Iraq). And now I have your name to add to my thanks.

caseymaye · ‎10-19-2018

@Vivian wrote:
My father and my uncles were all WW2 veterans. Several years ago, my husband and I took a tour of WW1 battlegrounds...Ypres, Paschendale, and others. We also visited British military cemeteries in the region. There are huge craters remaining and farmers in the region are still digging up remnants of what they called The Great War. I also visited the American cemetery in Château Thierry France, as well as the very moving WW2 cemetery in Normandy. Every town and village in France has a memorial to all their local people who died in both world wars. The losses were staggering, military and civilian.

We honor veterans on November 11 because that was the official end to WW1. At 11 am, on the 11th day of the 11th month (1918) the war ended and Armistice was declared. That's why the holiday was originally called Armistice Day. In the UK you'll see everyone wearing poppies on their lapels. This represents a poem, "In Flanders Fields" which made reference to the poppies that grew wild around the graves in military cemeteries. Going to that region of Europe really brought home the sacrifice, heroism, and loss suffered by so many people, many of whom were very young.

thank you @Vivian.

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