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Veterans here...do you think anyone will do anything special for you? Will you do something special for yourself?

Posted - November 11, 2018

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  • Heads up Veterans!  Ihop and Bob Evans have free meals available for you on Veterans Day! Enjoy:) Thank you for your service:) This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 11, 2018 10:23 AM MST
      November 11, 2018 9:51 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Other restaurants, too. Here's a link:

    https://www.veteransadvantage.com/blog/discounts-benefits/veterans-day-2018-food-freebies-veterans-and-active-duty-personnel-part-i
      November 11, 2018 9:59 AM MST
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  • 19937
    New York City will have a big parade up Fifth Avenue.
      November 11, 2018 10:05 AM MST
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  • 44604
    Nice
      November 11, 2018 11:08 AM MST
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  • 19937
    I've attended a couple of them on my lunch hours and enjoyed them.  Today was unusually cold, but since it was a Sunday, there may have been a large crowd.  I've not watched the news yet, but I'm sure there will be something about it on there.
      November 11, 2018 8:46 PM MST
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  • I just want to take the time to thank the brave men and women of the Space Force. :P

      November 11, 2018 10:20 AM MST
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  • 46117
    This is terrifying, I just did the same thing.  I didn't see this either.  Kill me now.  Please.
      November 11, 2018 11:22 AM MST
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  • uh huh, sure.  Remember what Randy was just saying about you being jealous and wanting to be like us? xD
      November 11, 2018 11:28 AM MST
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  • 2658
    I won't do anything special or expect something special from anyone...

     I will remember the toils, the blood from the battles on the far distant soils - this includes our soil (U.S.)
      November 11, 2018 10:47 AM MST
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  • 46117
    I like soldiers.  As long as they are not part of Trump idolatry, I thank them for having their hearts and minds in the very best place.  Caring for others.  Giving your life, if necessary, to your comrades in arms.

    I like people who want to protect.

    I salute each and every heart that thinks this way and puts their energy into it all day and night for years.



    SPACE FORCE



      November 11, 2018 11:17 AM MST
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  • 44604
    (Clears throat) How about sailors?
      November 11, 2018 7:00 PM MST
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  • 11103
    I spent some of my day remembering a family friend that was a merchant marine during the second world war. Here in Canada they are not recognised as vets but I think they should be. Cheers!
      November 11, 2018 7:31 PM MST
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  • 44604
    I had an uncle who was a MM also in WWII
      November 12, 2018 2:22 PM MST
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  • 1893
    Squids, they do make shark bait  :-)
      November 12, 2018 11:57 AM MST
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  • 22891
    hopefully sonneone will do sonnething for thenn
      November 11, 2018 2:49 PM MST
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  • 1305

    The Last Post

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCDWYgVyps

    The Exhortation

    They shall grow not old,
    As we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them
    Nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun
    And the morning
    We will remember them.
    We will remember them.

    2 minutes silence.

    Last Flight

    Once we were young and burned the sky
    But little thought to die.

    Now we are old, How damped the fires,
    How bitter cold.

    The days grow shorter and memory too.
    The fight is fainter and the victories few.

    My eyes lack lustre but my heart beats fast,
    I go to meet the Master in whose image
    We are cast.

    Shall I see fellow fliers?
    Shall I laugh again on high?
    Or will it be those fearful fires
    When airmen lit the sky?

    In Flanders Fields

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly
    Scarce heard amid the guns below.

    We are the Dead. Short days ago
    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
     Loved and were loved, and now we lie
     In Flanders fields.

    Take up our quarrel with the foe:
    To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
    We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
    In Flanders fields.



      November 11, 2018 3:32 PM MST
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  • 5808
    1. No
    2. No 
      November 11, 2018 4:12 PM MST
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  • 2658

    A Tribute To The Armed Services...
    This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at November 12, 2018 2:34 PM MST
      November 11, 2018 7:11 PM MST
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  • 1893
    Yesterday I just poured a single malt and asked to be alone.  too many thoughts and memories of old friends
      November 12, 2018 11:58 AM MST
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