Lest we forget

[sbroomheadsr]

Definition of a Veteran:

A Veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "Their Fellow Countrymen", for an amount of "up to and including their life."

Thank you, Brothers and Sisters for your service.



As an aside, why did they stop selling poppies in the US? I haven't seen them in years.

[416 Rigby]

Steve, the way your generation was treated when returning home was a national disgrace that I pray will never be repeated. Knowing this, I always make it a point, when I see a guy with a Vietnam Veteran hat or bumper sticker, to offer up my hand and say "Thanks for doing what you did back then." It's not much, but it's the very least we can do.

Especially today, I'm thinking of friends who walked out to the aircraft and never returned.

[Liam]

In Canada including Nfld. approximately 68,000 brave soldiers lost their lives during WWI. We remember them today along with those lost in other senseless conflicts but we forget about the 50,000 Canadians, mostly civilians who died as a result of the Spanish flu that the returning soldiers brought back with them to all parts of Canada, following the armistice. It was a similar story around the world.
We now have vaccinations that prevent this second tragedy from occurring. It is the annual flu shot. I encourage all to get one to reduce your chances of getting the flu and to protect those around you.

[Stoff]

Lest we forget. What powerful words and thoughts. I would like to put out a word of thanks to all my shipmates no matter the branch, present, past, or future. Thank you for being there at my back, at my side, or taking point watching out for what was/is/will be coming at us.

Thank you,
TM3 Christoph H. Hintze, USN (1975-1981)