Today I leave the snark and sexy aside.
It’s Veterans Day and I’d like to pay my own personal tribute to the men and women who willingly give. From that giving, I am free to walk the streets downtown and not worry about being bombed. I can go to the market and have little fear of being shot on the sidewalk by a terrorist. I can know my country and my small world within it are safer because of that service. In many cases that means our soldiers are providing that service in many other countries. We are celebrating Veterans Day in the United States today, but I want us to think of everyone, all over the world, who has stood up to defend and protect.
Some do it for a job—some for love of country—some because they have no choice but to serve.
To the men and women in my life who have served, thank you for helping to provide a place of freedom for our children and a place of democracy for our future.
My Father, Walter
Three of my Grandfathers
My Uncles, Danny and Buckey
My Brother, Keith
My love, HB
My Step Father, Bud
My Friends Charles C., Zachary S., Angie W., Alan G., Mike S. and Kevin K.
Some of these people are still in the service. Two are in Iraq today. I send you love and support. I sorely miss those of you who are no longer with us. Today, as I do many days, I think of you. I miss you. I love you.
We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us.
- George Orwell
Feel free to post the names of the people you love or the men and women you want to thank and remember.
Boo-Ya-Kasha
~Mari
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I want to honor my grandfather, Alois Kattenfeld. German Army WWII, captured by the Soviets at Stalingrad and survived a Siberian prison and building the Siberian Railway. He finally returned to his wife and son (my dad) in Austria in 1946.
Mr. K
Thank you Mr. K.
I left off HB's father, Larry.
What a great post, Mari.
My dad, Navy, WWII veteran of Leyte Gulf and Iwo Jima.
My brother, Army veteran.
My sister, currently serving in the Army.
My brother-in-law, currently serving in Iraq, Marine Reserves.
For obvious reasons Veteran's day is a reflective day for my husband and I. And the fact that it comes the day after the Marine Corps birthday just means we spend two days raising our glasses and being thankful not only for our freedom in this great country but also expressing our gratitude to the Corps for giving us the experiences of a lifetime and an honor that will live inside us forever.
Semper Fi
Eliza
Eliza ~ I keep forgetting that you were in the Marine Corps!! I'm adding you to my list. Here's a big {{hug}} and a thank you. <3
My grandfather, my great-grandfather, my uncle, a few cousins, a very dear friend, my father-in-law, a few BDSM friends. I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida home of Mayport Naval Base and NAS Jax. I have know people in all branches of the armed services and have never once failed to feel all that they gave for all that I have. I was once going to be in the Army myself, but, health circumstances and their rules prevented it at the time I enlisted.
It would have been an honor to serve.
Thank you to all that have.
~lissa
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