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Thank You Veterans. (1 Viewer)

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To those that are serving, those that served and those that gave their lives defending our freedom, thank you.

 
Ilov80s said:
A good place to learn about some our great US heroes. I'll start it out. 

Audie Murphy 
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:yes: he's probably the best known soldier other than generals or people who got famous for other reasons.

:Salute: 

This will be my first post retirement Veteran's day. I must admit, it means even more now than while serving.

 
Underachievers said:
Korea was a great duty assignment.  I was in Uijonbu  1980-81.    Never got the clap a single time.  ?
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Camp Stanley?

I was at  Dongducheon Camp Casey 2ID.      Loved it until someone they would close base due to whatever.   Fun times.   I probably would have killed myself if I was stationed in Seoul.   

 
Henry Johnson

On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds, in an action that was brought to the nation's attention by coverage in the New York World and The Saturday Evening Post later that year. Johnson died, poor and in obscurity, in 1929. There was a long struggle to achieve awards for him from the U.S. military. He was finally awarded the Purple Heart in 1996. In 2002, the U.S. military awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross.On June 2, 2015 he was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a posthumous ceremony at the White House.
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SHIZNITTTT said:
Camp Stanley?

I was at  Dongducheon Camp Casey 2ID.      Loved it until someone they would close base due to whatever.   Fun times.   I probably would have killed myself if I was stationed in Seoul.   
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Camp Essayons.  That base is closed also now.   The Turtle Farm was my best memory of Camp Casey.

 
Francis Barlow

Barlow was one of only a few men who entered the Civil War as an enlisted man and ended as a general.

After the War he helped found the American Bar Assiciation and prosecuted the Boss Tweed political machine as NY AG. One of the great American heroes and an embodiment of the what the GOP should stand for.

 
The least ironic moment of my year is when i salute 92yo Korea PFC Papapissah when i come in to the kitchen to make him a fancy breffess each Veteran's morning.

 
Also 5:00 on TCM is The Best Years of Our Lives. It's one of the most important Hollywood films ever made as it follows the lives of 3 WW2 veterans returning home. It includes an Oscar winning performance by wounded veteran Harold Russell.

Homer thinks maybe they should stop at his Uncle Butch's saloon for a drink before they get home. "You're home now, kid," the older man Al tells him. Three military veterans have just returned to their hometown of Boone City, somewhere in the Midwest, and each in his own way is dreading his approaching reunion. Al's dialogue brings down the curtain on the apprehensive first act of William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), the first film to win eight Academy Awards (one honorary) and at the time second only to "Gone With the Wind" at the U.S. box office. Seen more than six decades later, it feels surprisingly modern: lean, direct, honest about issues that Hollywood then studiously avoided. After the war years of patriotism and heroism in the movies, this was a sobering look at the problems veterans faced when they returned home.
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https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-best-years-of-our-lives-1946

 
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Thank you for your service to our country.

Those 8 magic words. Non veterans have no idea how powerful they are until they say them to a Veteran and see the reaction.

 
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