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When I was a child, and I am quite old now, they offered real poppies for a penny - a remembrance of Flander's Field.
As a family we all went to the cemeteries and placed little flags in the holders that denoted what war the dearly departed had fought in. Many were those that said G.A.R. I didn't find out until years later it meant 'Grand Army of the Republic'... all Union soldiers to be sure from that small town in Pennsylvania. There still resides a statue to them in the city park, surrounded on three sides by cannon.
The older men were all vets of the first war... The Great War. The younger men were all vets of the second war, and I'm sure there were more than a few having served in Korea.
I looked upon them as my heroes and role models though mostly I only knew them as my neighbors and school teachers. Many never spoke of what they had done. Others told just a little. Most drank far too much; and with good reason I'm sure.
My father was among the first troops in Japan. My step-mother was an army nurse during the African Campaign. My grandfather was an Able Bodied Seaman during WWI and my neighbor landed with the others during the D-day invasion. I asked him how he did it... how he lived through something like that. He told me he'd made his mind up he was already dead and then it was all right.
When I was in high school there was a funeral for a local boy killed in a far away place called Vietnam. It was very sad. As a town we grieved.
Now, watching the nightly news and seeing what our government has become; how they play our heroes as little more than pawns in some power game, I am greatly disturbed.
My prayer is that all of our service men and women come home safe. My prayer is that their lives will not be wasted in place where we are hated no matter how we help.
My prayer is that our country once again awakens to the call of service and that the only hand held out is the one raised in salute to those who served that we could be who we are... freely.
Vixyy
This picture is of a gathering at the local VFW in the early 1950's.
As a family we all went to the cemeteries and placed little flags in the holders that denoted what war the dearly departed had fought in. Many were those that said G.A.R. I didn't find out until years later it meant 'Grand Army of the Republic'... all Union soldiers to be sure from that small town in Pennsylvania. There still resides a statue to them in the city park, surrounded on three sides by cannon.
The older men were all vets of the first war... The Great War. The younger men were all vets of the second war, and I'm sure there were more than a few having served in Korea.
I looked upon them as my heroes and role models though mostly I only knew them as my neighbors and school teachers. Many never spoke of what they had done. Others told just a little. Most drank far too much; and with good reason I'm sure.
My father was among the first troops in Japan. My step-mother was an army nurse during the African Campaign. My grandfather was an Able Bodied Seaman during WWI and my neighbor landed with the others during the D-day invasion. I asked him how he did it... how he lived through something like that. He told me he'd made his mind up he was already dead and then it was all right.
When I was in high school there was a funeral for a local boy killed in a far away place called Vietnam. It was very sad. As a town we grieved.
Now, watching the nightly news and seeing what our government has become; how they play our heroes as little more than pawns in some power game, I am greatly disturbed.
My prayer is that all of our service men and women come home safe. My prayer is that their lives will not be wasted in place where we are hated no matter how we help.
My prayer is that our country once again awakens to the call of service and that the only hand held out is the one raised in salute to those who served that we could be who we are... freely.
Vixyy
This picture is of a gathering at the local VFW in the early 1950's.
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You are not old. :)
I thank those who serve for their tireless duty not for themselves, but for others who may never even know what was done to protect their way of life.
To
hyenafur and 
digi_az and 
slashersivi who've all served or serve now. I support the troops. May they all come home safe.
I thank those who serve for their tireless duty not for themselves, but for others who may never even know what was done to protect their way of life.
To
hyenafur and 
digi_az and 
slashersivi who've all served or serve now. I support the troops. May they all come home safe. 
I know how old you are and trust that is not old at all. You have a chronological age and real age...In your care your real age is more accurate than you chronological one. *hugs*
Its a wonderful photograph and a treasure. I was talking to one of my teacher friends and she said it was amazing to hear silence from 600+ students for Remembrance Day. I know the school that she works at and it would have been wonderful to sit and not hear them for one minute.
Its a wonderful photograph and a treasure. I was talking to one of my teacher friends and she said it was amazing to hear silence from 600+ students for Remembrance Day. I know the school that she works at and it would have been wonderful to sit and not hear them for one minute.
Yes I see what our Government No strike that the Corporation of the US has done with our troops and I do don't like it. When you start to see what the CEO (Obama) is going you have to wonder how did he get in office in the first place. He put them in harms way knowing and willfully there is no willing.
HUGGGGGGZ and very well said dear heart! I too remember those times
HUGGGGGGZ and very well said dear heart! I too remember those times
Yes U think it was and even better when it was our parents time. Like Dad said a few months before he died "I can remember when we really had freedom in this country. Not this bullshit and crap the peddle as freedom today."
You start learning about UCC and how you are being treated as a legal fiction as a corporation in court not a flesh and blood being. You see how close SF is now to the facts. Look up UCC 1-207 and 1-308 then you look up US title code 273 and 274 I think it is and they clearly states the police can't do many of the things they are doing. Many of the things they are doing is counter to their oath of service.
You start learning about UCC and how you are being treated as a legal fiction as a corporation in court not a flesh and blood being. You see how close SF is now to the facts. Look up UCC 1-207 and 1-308 then you look up US title code 273 and 274 I think it is and they clearly states the police can't do many of the things they are doing. Many of the things they are doing is counter to their oath of service.
I can only hope that humanity will some day stop finding reasons to go to war. Unfortunately I don't think even the youngest of us will ever see that in our lifetimes. My great-grandfather was a British soldier killed in WW1. My grandmother was a baby at the time and grew up never knowing her dad. And that's only one set of lives out of the countless many that are so heavily affected by war.
May turmpets blow and drums arise their thumber! Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of War!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35vxAxmTSyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35vxAxmTSyw
I spent the whole weekend watching the history channel and the stories the vets had to tell. I watch each show listening to each word said, and the 100s that they can't say cause they have shoved the pain so deep down. One show called "ww2 from space" finished its show with numbers of humans who were thought to have passed during the conflicts. The U.S. was around 500,000 a number that half the population of this province I live in. Russian's number was over 25 million. Each country, city, town and house felt the conflict and the pain that the war was causing. As humans, people feel that we have become numb to death with all the movies, shows and video games out there. But if this is so true, how is it that less then 1% of the population can even kill and butcher their own food.
My bf dislikes this weekend cause of the shows I watch. He is 78yo and his experience of the past is much different then mine. But every year this weekend is important to me cause it was the people of the past who fought for our freedoms, that allows me to live the way I do now. This is a debt I will never be able to repay.
*Drops to his knees and says a prayer in thanks.
My bf dislikes this weekend cause of the shows I watch. He is 78yo and his experience of the past is much different then mine. But every year this weekend is important to me cause it was the people of the past who fought for our freedoms, that allows me to live the way I do now. This is a debt I will never be able to repay.
*Drops to his knees and says a prayer in thanks.
I don't really consider myself a veteran, even though I am. I served in the Navy during one of the most peaceful periods in US history and was never in any danger of being shot at. It was during the cold war, yes, but the only encounter with the Russians I ever had was giving my ball cap to a visiting Russian sailor in a shopping mall. My Dad was in WWII, he snuck into the Navy at 14 and was at Okinawa and Iwo Jima before they found out and kicked him out. He then served in the Air Force during Korea as did my Uncle. I simply joined to get away from the little backwater town I was in and having to mooch off my family while looking for that non-existent job.
I was stationed on a submarine, the USS Sunfish. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3027676/ It was a boat far overdue for an overhaul with a crew to match. We were a "spook" boat, set up to do James Bond sorts of things like test top secret equipment and what not. What that means is we never really went anywhere or did anything all that "Navy-ish" as far as visiting exotic ports or what have you. Effectively doing the, "What did you do in the military? I shoveled shit in Louisiana" thing.
I was stationed on a submarine, the USS Sunfish. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3027676/ It was a boat far overdue for an overhaul with a crew to match. We were a "spook" boat, set up to do James Bond sorts of things like test top secret equipment and what not. What that means is we never really went anywhere or did anything all that "Navy-ish" as far as visiting exotic ports or what have you. Effectively doing the, "What did you do in the military? I shoveled shit in Louisiana" thing.
Yeah, read up on the Battle of the Atlantic to see how effective a sub was. Subs were devastating to entire economies, the cost per sub and crew was a pittance compared to the damage they could inflict. A sub wouldn't cost as much as the anchor on an aircraft carrier yet they sank them just the same and Germany wasn't shy about throwing away the lives of it's own military away to gain any advantage. Up until the allies developed counter measures, it was a turkey shoot and the only reason any allied shipping made it across was because of blind luck and the fact a sub could only carry so many torpedoes.
Besides that, submairnes are not very glorious and honorous... they are very ungerman in the old, my personal interpretaton
Which means, my own interpretation of what glory is, can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTPMEKwc808
Which means, my own interpretation of what glory is, can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTPMEKwc808
Many were those that said G.A.R. I didn't find out until years later it meant 'Grand Army of the Republic'... all Union soldiers to be sure from that small town in Pennsylvania.
Wow. That's an interesting detail which I'd never thought of before. There was a huge ACW era cemetery near where I grew up - there wasn't any fighting there, but that's where (I think?) both sides had hospitals. So there'd be big rows of markers, but I don't even remember them having clear indications of which army.
Wow. That's an interesting detail which I'd never thought of before. There was a huge ACW era cemetery near where I grew up - there wasn't any fighting there, but that's where (I think?) both sides had hospitals. So there'd be big rows of markers, but I don't even remember them having clear indications of which army.
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