Video by 15 year old girl. Guys, watch carefully.

[rockymking]

That's a tough one to watch ... NEVER forget their sacrifice for us!

 

[Sledboymn]

Very nice

 

[rockdog2112]

A.S. brother...I always know you are going to post something good. Snowesters I am not going to say this for praise...please don't praise. Go and thank a serviceman when you get the chance.

I have 2 sons and the parts with fathers and sons kills me. I lose it....especially seeing the little boys and funerals ...and the boys that understand crying and reaching out to the casket. There is a picture of a marine funeral I have in my office. It is a marine handing a flag to a boy my son's age. I could barely look at it at first....but it reminds me everyday to be a better father, especially if I am whisked away again to go over there.

I urge everyone to say hi to a soldier and tell him/her thank you. Nothing gives me greater satisfaction than when I am uniform and someone comes up to me and says that. It makes it all worth it. About a month ago I was making up some drill time in uniform and I was at lunch. A woman, about 70, came up to me and grab the sleeve of my uniform and had a tear in her eye and said thank you. I didn't know why she had a tear....I speculate because of a lost husband, son, or grandson.

Just a simple thank you means so much to the people that serve. So much!

I believe this is the picture. I apologize if I am wrong.

 

[previous member]

Have any of you seen the commercial on TV of the soldier walking down the street and it is like the twilight zone, no one is anywhere, it is all deserted. Then a guy walks over and shakes the soldiers hand and says "welcome home" and all the sudden the streets are normal again and people are everywhere.

Reminds me of coming home from Vietnam with the exception of the handshake and people showing up. It is still to this day an empty feeling.

I am a generation ahead of most of you. I am happy to see today's soldiers receiving thanks from a lot of people, the majority anyway. It makes a big difference the rest of your life.

Ever notice how in movies the Vietnam Vet is portrayed as a drug crazed maniac that no one can trust. That is far from the truth but it is the Liberal movie crowd that once were protestors. The ones that called us baby killers etc.

I do my damndest to welcome and praise the soldiers we have fighting now and at the same time I am glad I have no sons or daughters fighting in the military for a now President that doesn't care and who in fact in my opinion is an enemy of our Military People.

I hate Liberals with a passion because they are the ones who were calling Nam Vets names 40 years ago. They are my enemy and have been for a very long time. Bunch of no good B A S T A R D S !!!

In person I seldom mention to anyone that I served in the Nam. Particularly people my own age. Of course my friends and family know this but to strangers it just isn't worth it.

Don't need any comments or thanks. Just respect your military people from now on and resist what is going on in this country right now. I will resist it to the death if necessary.

 

[Flange]

Extremely moving. This 15 year old girl gets it. It amazes me just how many adults don't.

 

[Viper5]

Extremely moving. This 15 year old girl gets it. It amazes me just how many adults don't.

Exactly, very powerful video.

 

[MPS]

I hear ya MPS, a thank you does go a long way. When I was stationed at Fairchild I volunteered to march in the Lilac Parade. There were 4 flights of AF members in different uniforms. Everyone that was watching was yelling "Thank you" and "I love you guys" it is a little harder to march when your eyes start tearing up.

I love to march and sing cadence...those are the times I feel so proud. There are times I do get a teared up too singing certain cadences or being in the honor guard for fallen soldiers.

However, does anyone else on here feel less proud to put on a uniform now that Obama is in office and due to the direction he is taking this country? It doesn't mean what it once did to me. I am still proud, but not at the level I once was under Bush.

 

[MPS]

I believe this is the picture. I apologize if I am wrong.

Yup that is the picture bro.

 

[AKviper]

I don't think that I could be more proud wearing my uniform, no matter who is in office. However I was more proud to have Pres. Bush as our commander-in-chief then Obama. I realize every job in the service is important, but I feel guilty that my bro-in-law (Army Infantry) is in Iraq for a year and I'm just in the AF. I am now ANG in Alaska so that means my CIC is hot!

 

[m_beeson]

That video left me speechless. The author did an amazing job. That's what our country needs so that more of us will apreciate our men and women in arms.

 

[Weekday Warrior]

Have any of you seen the commercial on TV of the soldier walking down the street and it is like the twilight zone, no one is anywhere, it is all deserted. Then a guy walks over and shakes the soldiers hand and says "welcome home" and all the sudden the streets are normal again and people are everywhere.

Reminds me of coming home from Vietnam with the exception of the handshake and people showing up. It is still to this day an empty feeling.

I am a generation ahead of most of you. I am happy to see today's soldiers receiving thanks from a lot of people, the majority anyway. It makes a big difference the rest of your life.

Ever notice how in movies the Vietnam Vet is portrayed as a drug crazed maniac that no one can trust. That is far from the truth but it is the Liberal movie crowd that once were protestors. The ones that called us baby killers etc.

I do my damndest to welcome and praise the soldiers we have fighting now and at the same time I am glad I have no sons or daughters fighting in the military for a now President that doesn't care and who in fact in my opinion is an enemy of our Military People.

I hate Liberals with a passion because they are the ones who were calling Nam Vets names 40 years ago. They are my enemy and have been for a very long time. Bunch of no good B A S T A R D S !!!

In person I seldom mention to anyone that I served in the Nam. Particularly people my own age. Of course my friends and family know this but to strangers it just isn't worth it.

Don't need any comments or thanks. Just respect your military people from now on and resist what is going on in this country right now. I will resist it to the death if necessary.

Thats how my dad is, you'd never know he was a vietnam vet. He doesn't tell anyone, doesn't brag about it and has done his best to erase it totally from his mind.

Then there are the people who brag about it, get special license plates on their cars etc...then you find out they stocked shelves in a supply warehouse or worked state side and never seen any action at all. I don't begrudge these people their service, but all too often they try to come across as some badaz war vet.

For example, this dude has a purple heart license plate on his subaru..brags about how many speeding tickets he's gotten out of by having those plates.

Come to find out he's never seen any action, stocked shelves and got an owey from a box falling on his big toe. pizzes me off to no end

my dad got shot twice, once from a bullet fragment passing thru his buddes head and hitting him in the hand. another bullet thru the knee but you won't find a purple heart on his any of his 3 pickups.

 

[redlineguy]

WOW

 

[woodpecker]

HOW in the He!! am I suppose to look professional as a public servant when I'm all snotty nosed and watery eyed!!!


Jerks!!