Veterans Day

Give them all a big thanks.

Big thanks to all you veterans

Forever to be remembered and honered. Thanks to them all.

Thanks you for your bravery and honor!

Forever grateful, Forever respectful, Forever in your debt!

I think it’s a sad day in our country. Less than 1% of Americans are patriotic enough to volunteer for our Armed Forces.
It’s also a sad day because of the media and recent elections the insurgents in Iraq have been revitalized, sound familiar, Viet vets?

Gonefishing, you touch on a subject that I often wonder about. Why is it in the “Land of the Free” everyone jumps on the bandwagon of thanking vets for their service, but not many would become one themselves? Don’t get me wrong, as a veteran I appreciate every sincere word of thanks I ever get, but I don’t understand why so few choose to enlist? Afterall, even if the chance to travel, or get free training, or free tuition, or 30 paid days off a year, or free medical and dental, or free housing isn’t enough of an incentive, shouldn’t pride in your country and the willingness to defend your people’s way of life not be enough? One could argue that in “Grandpa’s” day and age they had a draft, and now we do not, but in all reality MANY of those men enlisted of their own free will because they believed in the plight of America….especially in Minnesota and Wisconsin, who had some of the highest percentages of elistees in the nation! Anyhow, makes me wonder if folks have just gotten too lazy and hope the other guy signs up, or perhaps they just believe that the threats of the modern world can’t reach them? Or, most sadly, maybe they just don’t believe America is worth fighting for anymore? Well, even with all the troubles and turmoil, it still is!

To all Veterans thoughout this nation’s history……here’s to you! Thank You all for your service, we couldn’t do it without you!

Slipsinker~
You hit the nail right on the head…
Thank all you Vets for paving the road to freedom.
I also want to add thanks to the families of those Vets.
And I want to add a thanks for the ones that gave there lifes for ours to live the way we do today, THANK YOU!
You will never be forgotten!