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| Posted: Fri Jul 4th, 2008 02:55 am |
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Bama46
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Tomorrow is the 4th of July...the date we celebrate as our nation's birthday. Regardless of wether we look towards the blue or the grey, we look to our veterans, and say:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY...
Without you, Lord only knows where we would be today...
Your sacrifices are not unrecognized here!
Ed
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| Posted: Fri Jul 4th, 2008 10:49 am |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 4th, 2008 02:44 pm |
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Johan Steele
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Thanks Bama... I'm celebraing the day today by spending time w/ friends and teaching a pair of them to shoot. A promise I made years ago but never got around to doing. This weekend I keep my promise.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 4th, 2008 04:17 pm |
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Dixie Girl
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very well said. Happy 4th everybody!!!
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War Means Fighting And Fighting Means Killing - N. B. Forrest
When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Stonewall Jackson
Sic Semper Tyrannis - John Wilkes Booth
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| Posted: Wed Jul 9th, 2008 09:40 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10th, 2008 03:09 pm |
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lifl2003
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Well said.
We can never forget our veterans. We are losing too many each day.
Especially WWII vets.
Sadly soon they will all be gone.
Mike
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10th, 2008 03:46 pm |
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Texas Defender
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Sadly, we are watching a wonderful generation go down. I expect that those who watched the Civil War veterans march into history had the same feelings about them.
The accepted figure of WW II vets living today is about 2.5 million, about one in seven. Perhaps half a million die each year.
FOXNews.com - World War II Veterans Are Dying at Rate of More Than 1,000 a Day, Numbers Dwindling - Local News | News Article...
I disagree with the historian in this article that all will be gone by 2020, however. People are living longer these days, and a lot of WW II vets will live to be over 100. (We still have a WW I soldier living). Three Confederate vets attended the last UCV meeting in 1951 (Though all three died soon after). That was 86 years after their war ended.
My guess is that hundreds will still be living in 2020. A handfull will probably be still living in 2030. Based on the ages of the oldest humans now living, I expect that the last WW II vet might die around the age of 115. If you start with a young one who was 20 years of age in 1945, you conclude that the date of death will be around 2040.
Whatever that date is, it will be a sad day for our country.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10th, 2008 05:20 pm |
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Bama46
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My favorite uncle quit High school, lied about his age (he was 16) and joined the Navy. He participated in the landings (20mm bow gunner on an LCI) at Anzio, Salerno, Tunisa, and then went to England to prepare for D Day. He ferried troops to Omaha all day on D day. Returned home, married my aunt, then went to the south Pacific....
He is now 84...
And you are right, it is painful to watch them age. I remember him as a robust young man who taught me to hunt fish, and shoot, as well as the values that made me a man. NOw he picks up one of my pistols and his hand shakes so bad he can only hold it, not aim it...
His values however are a strong as they were when he was a young sailor!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10th, 2008 05:27 pm |
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lifl2003
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Wow Ed,
That is some service record!! God bless him. Make sure to enjoy the time you do have left with him.
Mike
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10th, 2008 07:26 pm |
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Bama46
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He had some big shoes to fill.... his grandfather was a student of Gen Jackson at VMI, ADC to gen John Gordon, a major at 19, flag of truce bearer at Appomattox (his photo hangs in the visitor's center and his flag is on display in the museum there) was later governor of Alabama and then a Federal Judge appointed by TR.
He returned to Appamattox while governor and dug a Sycamore sapling. He transplanted it to the grounds of the Alabama Capitol and it flourishes today as the "Jones Sycamore"
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11th, 2008 01:26 am |
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ole
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My brother-in-law is a WWII vet. At 18, his guard unit was called up to help mop up in the Phillipines.
Growing up, I knew a number of them. Most are gone now. This was, truly, the finest generation. The entire world owes them a great debt. I would hope that we could mean half so much as they do.
ole
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11th, 2008 02:44 am |
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susansweet
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When I first started attending the fourth of July parade in Huntington Beach in the early 70's the Pearl Harbor Survivors took up three whole blocks as they marched down the street in their Hawaiian Shirts, white pants and campaign hats. This year there were about a dozen in jeeps . One old guy though was hanging out as far as he could waving to the crowds. They still give the hang loose sign and seem to be enjoying themselves. They always get the biggest round of applause . Will be sad when the last of them pass and there aren't anymore in the parade.
Susan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11th, 2008 01:33 pm |
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Bama46
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The day I went to the USS Arizona memorial, a NPS guide asked each of the survivors in the crowd, (you could tell them by their shirts and caps) to come forward and describe for the audience where they were and what they were doing during the attack.... I will never forget their stories...
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