Different Nation, but why not, They should be honoured and saluted everyday
for what they have done and still do.. Thanks to all the vets on both sides
of the border who have fought on foreign shores. Thanks to my 2 Grandpa's
who fought in Europe (one stationed 20 miles behind the lines in a support
role and the other as an aircraft armourer), to my great great uncle who
died Nov 8, just 3 days before the end of the war to end all wars. Thanks
to all those out there on active duty around the world and special thanks to
those who gave all so we could be here today.


"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward
glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.

Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have
always. Take what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with
your own.

And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind."

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
Listed as KIA February 7, 1978

Snow...





"Ben" > wrote in message
...
>I just want to say thanks to all my great uncles, friends, my father in
>law, and others for fighting in WWII..
> I also want to say thanks to my father in law again and friends for
> fighting in the Korean War...
> I also want to say thanks to my father in law once again for fighting off
> the Libyans in 1968 during a coup.. Yes.. On his head stone he is listed
> as being a Vetern of 3 wars.. 30 years of military service.. Bronze Star
> with honors, 3 purple hearts, and was a POW during WWII.. He fought from
> Africa all the way to Berlin...
> I want to thank my Uncles, friends, and others for fighting a war where
> people at home had turned on them.. I have one uncle that served 2 years
> in Vietnam and come home with 3 purple hearts and was spit on by left
> wing, communist, hippie tree huggers... I have a friend that went over and
> came back with 1 purple heart and nightmares.. Even to this day..
> I want to thank my brother, friends and others that fought in Desert
> Storm...
> I want to thank my friends and others that are fighting right now.. Far
> from home... In Afghanistan, Iraq and other places in the world...
> Thinking about their loved ones.. sons, daughters, spouses...
>
> But most of all... I want to thank the ones that never made it back...
> They should never be forgotten... They died not in vain, but to perserve
> our way of life, our freedom...
>
> Again.. Thanks...
>
> Ben
> 95 YJ 2.5L
>