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My wife and I are on our way to the local school for a Veteran's Day program. It is always put on by the grammar school classes. I think it is wonderful that they are teaching the young ones.
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"In Flander's Fields, where poppies grow-- there stand white crosses, row on row-- In my case-- from the center axis of the Wall- Five rows East- 63rd name- (aprox in the middle of that fifth Black Panel--) Don was the guy who you always wanted to be with--loyal, great athlete, Class president-- why does it always seem like those guys end up in body bags, and the "10 per-centers' and the REMF's make it back "To The World" intact?
Just reading a book by the C.O. of his Unit-- "Danger's Dragoons" written by Col. (Ret) Wm. Haponski-- The Air/Cav Division of the Big Red One-- I served in the USMC 3rd. Mar/ Div-- Yes, Sunday 10/Nov we "Jarheads" celebrated 274 years, but on 11/Nov each year, since "Ike" declared it "Veteran's Day" in 1954, all of us who served America celebrate as Brothers In Arms... And by the way, my favorite General, after "Chesty" Puller, George Smith Patton Jr., was born on 11/Nov.
Semper Fi-- RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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[""10 per-centers' and the REMF's make it back "To The World"] Fox
I'm sorry Fox, but when I read someone referring to veterans as you just did, and on Veterans Day it strikes me as wrong. My respect on this day is for every guy who took the oath and put his future in Uncle Sam's hands. Not everyone fought, not everyone in mine and your generation even went to Vietnam. No personal offense meant...Geo
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My father, cutting across a large corner lot in Guelph, Ontario, as a kid, was stopped by a tall, erect white-haired man of military bearing. He asked my father's name and school and favourite subject. When Dad said English, he asked if he knew poetry. When Dad said yes, he was asked if he knew In Flanders Fields. With a positive response, he asked if he would recite it for him. When Dad recited the poem, the man man said to my father, age 9, "John McRae is my son."
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King even though its U.S. Veteran's Day here, I always think of my father in law Col. Everette Denison who was unfortunate to have been with the Quebec Rifles in Hong Kong when it fell to the Japanese in 1940. He spent 4 1/2 years
in a prison camp and lost hundreds of men to disease, torture, and starvation as they built Kai Tak Airport.
Went to the vet's breakfast this morning. Packed as usual.
Hal
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King-
We quote "In Flanders Field", and give out Poppies( usually paper, and made at first by disabled "Great War" Veterans) on Armistice Day, now Veterans Day. I wonder how many realize it was written about UK friends that fell in 1914 Belgium. WE also honor our friends on this day even if we don't know it.
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Thanks, Karl-back at you!
101st Airborne, Vietnam, 1968-1969
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Fox,
The Air/Cav Division was the 1st Cavalry Division( Air Mobile), the Big Red 1 was the 1st Infantry Div., both outstanding units with proud histories, but are not the same; just as the 3rd Marine Division is different than the 3rd Infantry Division even though both are proud units any member should be proud of.
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Suffering of prisoners of the Japanese is unimaginable. My father was POW of the Luftwaffe in Stalag Luft III for three years, a camp of some 11,000 Allied airmen, scene of The Great Escape. Six POWs died of natural causes there during the war. An adjoining camp for Russians, not protected by Geneva Convention, carted off hundreds each month, starved, without medical care and worked to death. My wife, oldest daughter and I visited Zagan, now in Poland, two years ago. It had a single huge sculpture at the entrance of a near-prostrate dying Russian with an arm up in appeal to humanity.
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The Russians had a soft spot for German POW's and vice versa. The Germans treated US POW's far better than they did the Russians. I knew more than a handful of dad's friends who survived as POWs in German camps. Mom's oldest brother, on the other hand, was a captured airman who was eventually murdered by the Japanese captors in New Guinea. The one thing all of our veterans, living and dead, have in common is that they signed a blank check with their lives as payment in service to our country. Gil
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