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Happy Veterans day to all of our Vets.
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Thanks for the service for your country.
People should always respect the freedom they were given by people going to wars.
Yes, thank you all.
Do we have a thread somewhere around here to show our veterans and a poll with what branch?
We might, I'm not sure.
But how about we add a tag to each veteran member who want to show their service. It would be like a site supporter tag but would say US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard.
Post in this thread if you want a tag and what service and I will do the rest. Might take a bit to get em all done but never fret it will be done.
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Slant Eyed Polack
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Today is one of the days (Memorial Day & his birthday are the others) when I fire up some incense for my great-uncle Satoru. After his older brother (my grandfather) was rounded up & “relocated” under the provisions of Executive Order 9066, Uncle Sat ducked the feds & joined the 442nd RCT. He was 17. I’ve seen pics of him at that age; he looked like he was 14 or 15. I know he didn’t fool anybody.
He returned from Europe minus his left leg. I was tight with him as a kid, and he never talked about the war. After he died, we mobilized a caravan of pickups to move Aunty Shizu into a condo. I grabbed a cardboard box from the master bedroom and it broke open. Out spilled Uncle Sat’s war memorabilia, including his Purple Heart & Silver Star. Aunty Shizu walked in on me & said “You found the lucky charms!” She explained that Uncle Sat felt displaying them would have been “vulgar.” He saw them as tokens of his stupendous luck, and reminders of his brothers who never made it home. Aunty Shizu called them lucky charms; a private endearment between the two of them. Except for Aunty Shizu & their daughter, I am the first member of the family to have ever seen them.
祝福 to those who’ve volunteered to be the pointy end of the spear. You’re better than me, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
He returned from Europe minus his left leg. I was tight with him as a kid, and he never talked about the war. After he died, we mobilized a caravan of pickups to move Aunty Shizu into a condo. I grabbed a cardboard box from the master bedroom and it broke open. Out spilled Uncle Sat’s war memorabilia, including his Purple Heart & Silver Star. Aunty Shizu walked in on me & said “You found the lucky charms!” She explained that Uncle Sat felt displaying them would have been “vulgar.” He saw them as tokens of his stupendous luck, and reminders of his brothers who never made it home. Aunty Shizu called them lucky charms; a private endearment between the two of them. Except for Aunty Shizu & their daughter, I am the first member of the family to have ever seen them.
祝福 to those who’ve volunteered to be the pointy end of the spear. You’re better than me, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.