Well said, Dan.

Yes Sir, We appreciate what all our Veterans have done! My hats off to them!

I celebrate Veterans on Veterans Day and all have my respect.Memorial Day is for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Thank you Dan for your service

Damn straight.

Happy Memorial Day. And to all veterans, a sincere thank you.

To all my fellow veterans, Thank you for your service, God bless. USS Robert L Wilson DD847 1966-1970. Also to my father inlaw, Japanese POW, rest in peace Poppa Joe.

As a fellow veteran, it's wonderfully cool to see so many Americans honor our active duty military members and veterans today, rather than how it was during the Vietnam era when I was in the service. God Bless the United States Miltary and its veterans! newt

Semper Fi. Nam 3rd recon Thanks to all my brothers. And. Sisters Semper Fi

U.S. Army - 8 Years

Thanks you to all my brother and sister veterans.

Me and my kids will be at the V.A. Cemetery tomorrow morning to honor all the veterans who gave the lives so that we can still be free and live in the greatest country ever conceived!

I was in the Army (Infantry) for 20+ years.

We have an awesome country with wonderful citizens that I would kill and die for.

I am especially grateful for this website and its collection of experts and creative bow, arrow, knife, and leather craftsmen.

Even if a person only served a minute - they have my respect and admiration.

I go to college in Wisconsin and some of the veterans that go there are incredible. One kid, got blown up in Iraq, lost an eye, suffered TBI, and still graduated with a 3.7 GPA.

He got a bottle of Lagavulin from me.

Thanks fellow Veterans, and be thankful to those who served and paid the ultimate price.

We remembered Veterans in Church this morning and I thought how different and diversified we are in the US compared to 23 other Countries I have worked in or visited, or in those ISIS controlled radical areas where relegion is also considered a key to daily functions. But the difference here are the freedoms men, women, and their families enjoy.

I remember my Dad saying four years is a long time the morning after I joined the Navy at 20 in '66. Yup sure was! But it showed me how much alike we all are from different cultures and backgrounds with those I served with and how we were all willing to do what we had to do to, no matter the circumstance or where ever we were. In those days, we thought more about being a team than we ever did about the big picture of freedom for all. However, we knew we were an important link to freedom as our families all told us about the sacrifices of WWII. God Bless all Veterans - Babbling Bob

USAF, 1959-1963, I will be attending the Memorial Service here in Ft. Collins Colorado, to honor my fellow vets as well as those still serving.

United States Of America, a great country. I fly my US flag 365.

my best, Paul

I salute those that have fallen to keep us free. We owe them a debt of gratitude for the sacrifice they made.

I salute those that have fallen to keep us free. We owe them a debt of gratitude for the sacrifice they made.

Thanks to all.For years after I was discharged from the army,I didn't tell people I served in Vietnam. Larry

Well said 4Nolz. I concur 100%!

Have a good one

Hey vernet. I actually talked to my dad for first time about being in country last weekend. Long time coming. Welcome home

It amazes me how many people don't realizes what Memorial Day is for. It is to honor those that gave their life for this country. All gave some but some gave all.

It amazes me how many have not even served their country. Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces be it combat related or non combat related. I feel even a war veteran that died 50 years after ETSing out of military service deserves that honor.

Tomorrow I'll be helping the American Legion put flags on the grave stones of veterans killed in combat, killed by non combat, or if they died 50 years after getting out of military service.

1959-1965 Cuban crisis vet. [Navy] It turned out alright but it was touch and go for a while there. As "the Duke" says in the movie "In Harm's Way,"all battles are fought by men who wish they were somewhere else." But then we cannot all be "somewhere else."

I salute all those who gave their all. America wouldn't be "the land of the free" if not for men and women willing to give their lives to preserve what we have. I'm proud to call them Americans.

4nolz: Thank you for reminding us what memorial Day is really all about. Some of us never forget...

KodiakTD,

I joined the Marines in 1964 prior to that I was a lumberjack. I dislocated a small inoperable bone in my back that is pinching a nerve, the marines were checking my background and found that I had this problem and immediately rejected me.

Other than the occasional pain this has not stopped me from any work or anything else, but I was not allowed to serve my country. This has hurt me deeply for many years.

This is the first time I have ever mentioned this in the open like this, but I just wanted everyone to know that some of us were not allowed to serve because of some sort of minor imperfection.

I can still throw an eighty pound bag of salt on my shoulder and toss it in my truck, but at that time they just didn't understand that a small thing like that wasn't going to stop me from performing my duties...............wing

wingstrut I understand. My brother in law had a medical deferment ( he couldn't pass the physical ) something to do with his lungs. He's 62 years old now and it still bothers him he couldn't enlist. He tried to enlist and they said no because of his health problem. But on the bright side his health problems didn't stop him from having six kids. "LOL"

My greatest appreciation for the psychological, emotional, and physical price that those among us have paid. We have certainly repaid our debt less well than we should have, and we now treat this day as a weekend to kick off the summer or to get the best sale prices. In the day, the stores just didn't open and the day wasn't filled with the top 500 greatest rock songs on our local radio station. Sad really.

Even taking just a moment to think about war, and to appreciate what others have done for "you" while you went about your life, is something ......

Remember that Fred B made the point that the effort that you put into something is what you get out of it

KodiakTD,

What upset me is that I passed the physical and was signed up took the oath and was ready to get stationed and some country doctor sent in a report about that bone, maybe he thought he was doing me a favor, but he wasn't.

Have a wonderful memorial day and I know that the folks on this web site know exactly what memorial day is and honor those that are not with us. .........wing

Well said Nolz!!!!!

Remember the fallen and those who have gone on before.

Wing, it's maybe because the Marines wanted perfect or as near perfect men as they could get for the Viet Nam conflict. Maybe. But the Army took my cousin and shipped him over even though he was partially blind in one eye. Go figure.

I was set on the Marines, maybe I should have tried the Army, Drats!!! I was 18 and strong as two ox's was picking up cypress logs five foot long, eight to ten inches in diameter, full of water and throwing them on a pallet, anyone who has messed with cypress knows that a fresh cut cypress tree weighs a heck of a lot more than most trees, and I wonder how I dislodged that bone in my back...Ha!Ha!

Actually the two Marine recruiters were more disappointed in the results than I was at that moment, they thought they had the perfect dummy. Ha!Ha! ....wing

For Those Who Gave All , Thank You . U.S. Army Vet.

Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) medical staff is a mixture of all the military branches. All military branches went through the same physical. At least that is how it was when I enlisted. The Marines, Navy, Airforce, Army, and Coast Guard all got their physicals together. When I enlisted in the Army I got sworn in by a Navy officer.

You are correct the Navy was trying to get me to join, it was funny they were promising me just about anything to enlist with them, they were all there, I went to Jacksonville Florida for my physical and enlistment, of course you didn't go right in, they sent you home first than you had so many days, I still remember standing there with about sixty other naked fellas waiting to get the finger and shots, I wonder if they do that with the female physicals, I might just try to enlist to see if I get through at least the physical.....Ha!Ha!.....wing

I was in the Army and the Marines. 9 1/2 yrs as a grunt. I wouldn't have it any other way. This is a great country. Thank everybody who is gainfully engaged in making this country free and productive, whether you served or not. God bless, Bubba

Never take our Freedom for granted, it has a cost; always has and always will. God bless those who have paid the ultimate price. Take time every day, but especially today to remember. Never forget!

Box call had a uncle in same division he was on the rock also. May of been side by side. He was in the raiders before the disbanded them

U.S. Army for 2 years. I honor all men and women who have paid the ultimate price so we can all be free. God will prepare them a special place. Joel

Near Gander airport in Newfoundland there is a special place. My wife and I pass there each year and we seldom do so with out stopping to pay our respects, it is the site of the plane crash of an American plane back in the 80s, killing all on board. The Silent Witness monument. Sandy

This was my Dad in the Army Airforce WWII

Served four years, 67 to 71, Polaris submarine duty during the Cold War. Went to the parade today and thought of the many who never made it back here. Also thought about the many young men still serving. God please help them all.

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