10 thoughts on “VETERANS DAY

  1. Deb

    I give thanks for all of our veterans–particularly my sister who just retired this year after 25 years of serving our country in the Air Force.

    Reply
  2. Jeff Meyerson

    Amen. Thanks, Cap’n.

    My father enlisted at 17 after Pearl Harbor Day and spent most of the war in England working on planes for Omar Bradley and “ordinary” pilots too. He said if he couldn’t fly himself he was not getting in a plane with someone else.

    Reply
    1. george Post author

      My Dad served four years on the destroyer U.S.S. Kidd in the Pacific, Jeff. He was injured when a Japanese kamikaze plane hit his ship. My Dad was awarded a Purple Heart.

      Reply
  3. Richard R.

    I too was in the service, U.S. Army tank battalion. This was just about the time of the Berlin Wall Crisis (am I dating myself?) and I was a tank driver, gunner, commander, trainer. Stayed at Ft. Knox the whole time. So I guess I didn’t do much, but a lot of others did, and I appreciate their efforts, then and now.

    Reply
  4. Jeff Meyerson

    We had a friend who served in Vietnam when there were hardly any troops there in the very early 60’s before the buildup. It was quite a different perspective.

    Reply
  5. Cap'n Bob

    My father was a Navy corpsman who hit the beaches with the Marines. He was shot in the leg during one of those actions. Uncle George was in the 11th Airborne and Uncle Baggybutt was a Marine. I was in Nam with two different engineer companies.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *