Thank You!!

[Rafter H BBQ]

To All Our Veterans,

With sincere appreciation of your service!!

 

[tropics]

Thanks for your post Buddy
Richie

 

[driedstick]

Thanks WHB

 

[GaryHibbert]

Same thanks from us Canucks too Justin.
Gary

 

[bluewhisper]

My grandfather born in 1900 was a Captain in the Lithuanian army. He was decorated for chasing the Bolsheviks back to the border shortly after World War 1.

But that put him on a hit list (or something that rhymes with hit) and when the Soviets came back he had to flee with his wife and child (my mother). No kidding, they had a choice of running with the Nazis or living under Stalin. They probably would have executed him.

So my mother grew up as an army brat (that's her on the right). One time when they mustered the troops and gave them the at-ease command, she piped up, "Can we smoke?"

They lived in London for a while before coming to the US. But he never became a US citizen; he died as a British subject in 1992.

 

[pops6927]

Fly your flag proudly honoring our brave men and women Veterans! Me and my neighbors do!

 

[bluewhisper]

At my old house my neighbor was Ed Hannah, a Pearl Harbor survivor, Chief Engineer on the USS Blue DD-387. Oh did he have some stories about coming into port and sneaking around under the dock to hook up utilities like water and power for free.

Our political views were very different but we had fun teasing each other about that. This is my favorite picture of him and his wife Peg.

Also this

I dug around a bit more in my files and found this .pdf of his story.

 

[crazymoon]

Thanks for the post Justin !