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[lonevoice]

What is a Vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia
sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel
carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose
overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the
cosmic scales.....

by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel...


She is the nurse who fought against futility and went
to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came
back another.


- or didn't come back AT ALL.



He is the drill instructor who has never seen combat...
but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and
gang members into fighting men(and women), and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals...

with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and
medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns,
whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever
preserve the memory of all anonymous heroes whose valor dies
unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket -
palsied now and aggravatingly slow...

who helped liberate a Nazi
death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still
alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a
person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the
service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so
others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a Soldier(and an Airman, and a Sailor, and a Marine); a savior and a sword against the darkness,
and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on
behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

For you Vets of my father's generation, and the others before my time, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Lonevoice
2/75th Rgr. Btn.
Hoooah!!!!

(hope you guys and gals don't mind a now chubby ex-snake eater posting on your forum.
Happy Veterans Day, all!!!!!)

(and later on today, let's have a cold one and remember absent friends.)
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
-Mother Teresa

If it's not a baby, you're not pregnant.
-me

[dmackto]

Wonderful poem, thank you.

I am going to post this on my website for Veterans Day. If you object let me know and I will remove it!
_________________
Deborah
The FROZEN CHICKEN Journal

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

[shooter]

Thank you, Lonevoice, for this excellent poem

From a getting older by the moment and chubby retired Navy Chief....
_________________
ADC USN Ret.

For those that fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know !!

Harley Davidson - If you have to ask, you don't understand !

Gun Control = Double tap - center mass

[shawa]

EXCELLENT!!!

THANK YOU VETS!!

GOD BLESS YOU ONE AND ALL!!

[lonevoice]