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Date: 11 Nov 2006 21:27:47
From: retiredusarmy
Subject: OT: Thanks to all the older vets.
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It was a honor to serve the United States.
There are so many older veterans who served during Vietnam and Korea and a
few left from WWII. They are the ones who need just a handshake or simple
words from all of us younger folks.
The generation of the forties and fifties is what made the US one of the
best countries in the world.
Take time if you know someone and say thank you.
Played 6 rounds this week. Today was tough. The temp hovered around 54
(brrr). The wind coming from the NW at 15 just ate my lunch. I lurched
around in 85 thanks to some unusually good ups and downs for me.
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Date: 12 Nov 2006 03:44:18
From: wtrplnet
Subject: Re: Thanks to all the older vets.
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"retiredusarmy" <tenniscoach1998nospam@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:Pww5h.18479$GE1.267@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
> It was a honor to serve the United States.
>
> There are so many older veterans who served during Vietnam and Korea and a
> few left from WWII. They are the ones who need just a handshake or
> simple
> words from all of us younger folks.
>
> The generation of the forties and fifties is what made the US one of the
> best countries in the world.
>
>
> Take time if you know someone and say thank you.
>
>
> Played 6 rounds this week. Today was tough. The temp hovered around 54
> (brrr). The wind coming from the NW at 15 just ate my lunch. I lurched
> around in 85 thanks to some unusually good ups and downs for me.
>
>
>
Er, thanks. Gees, turned 59 two weeks ago, got a pain in my left shoulder,
and now someone refers to me as "older"! Bad enough when AARP began sending
me unsolicited requests to join.
http://www.intertrader.net/parkcounty.htm
http://www.intertrader.net/ptf.htm
Special thanks to those currently serving. (Rant redacted)
Now dadgummit, where's my Geritol!
Alan
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Date: 12 Nov 2006 14:35:44
From: tiggerspalewife
Subject: Re: Thanks to all the older vets.
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In article <mMw5h.6426$Yi7.354@tornado.socal.rr.com >
"wtrplnet" <wd12@YOUKNOWTHEDRILLexcite.com > wrote:
AARP's slow. They should have started that when you turned 50
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Date: 12 Nov 2006 10:10:22
From: Miss Anne Thrope
Subject: Re: OT: Thanks to all the older vets.
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It's "Hug A Hired Thug Day" already?
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Date: 13 Nov 2006 19:38:20
From: John Reddy
Subject: Re: OT: Thanks to all the older vets.
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In article <12864-4557395E-675@storefull-3155.bay.webtv.net >,
High_Colonic@webtv.net (Miss Anne Thrope) wrote:
> It's "Hug A Hired Thug Day" already?
It makes me wanna puke to even respond to you but you would do well to
remember that your right to poke your head out from under your rock and
spew your venomous drivel has always been, is presently and will
continue to be protected and defended by those who serve in the armed
forces of the United States.
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Date: 12 Nov 2006 15:04:52
From: John Reddy
Subject: Re: OT: Thanks to all the older vets.
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I would amend that to say thanks to all vets, young, old, living and
deceased. And additional thanks to those still serving.
-JR
US Army, 1969-72
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Date: 13 Nov 2006 11:52:15
From: John B.
Subject: Re: OT: Thanks to all the older vets.
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retiredusarmy wrote:
> It was a honor to serve the United States.
>
> There are so many older veterans who served during Vietnam and Korea and a
> few left from WWII. They are the ones who need just a handshake or simple
> words from all of us younger folks.
>
> The generation of the forties and fifties is what made the US one of the
> best countries in the world.
>
>
> Take time if you know someone and say thank you.
>
>
> Played 6 rounds this week. Today was tough. The temp hovered around 54
> (brrr). The wind coming from the NW at 15 just ate my lunch. I lurched
> around in 85 thanks to some unusually good ups and downs for me.
A few weeks ago I walked by the WWII Memorial in DC and saw an old man
in a wheelchair wearing a hat that said Guadalcanal on it. I stopped
and said, "Were you at Guadalcanal?" He said, "Yes, I was." I put my
hand on his shoulder and said, "Well, God bless you, sir." I'll never
forget that.
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Date: 13 Nov 2006 15:05:06
From: Lloyd Parsons
Subject: Re: OT: Thanks to all the older vets.
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In article <1163447535.150086.43210@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com >,
"John B." <johnb505@gmail.com > wrote:
> retiredusarmy wrote:
> > It was a honor to serve the United States.
> >
> > There are so many older veterans who served during Vietnam and Korea and a
> > few left from WWII. They are the ones who need just a handshake or simple
> > words from all of us younger folks.
> >
> > The generation of the forties and fifties is what made the US one of the
> > best countries in the world.
> >
> >
> > Take time if you know someone and say thank you.
> >
> >
> > Played 6 rounds this week. Today was tough. The temp hovered around 54
> > (brrr). The wind coming from the NW at 15 just ate my lunch. I lurched
> > around in 85 thanks to some unusually good ups and downs for me.
>
>
> A few weeks ago I walked by the WWII Memorial in DC and saw an old man
> in a wheelchair wearing a hat that said Guadalcanal on it. I stopped
> and said, "Were you at Guadalcanal?" He said, "Yes, I was." I put my
> hand on his shoulder and said, "Well, God bless you, sir." I'll never
> forget that.
I was fortunate enough to have as my Boy Scout Leader a survivor of the
Bataan Death March and a very close personal friend that was a Pearl
Harbor survivor. I'll never forget those two men who are now departed.
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