THANK a VETERAN!!!
 

I AM A VETERAN! and a Veteran is someone, who at one point in their life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America for an amount up to, and including, their life. Regardless of personal political views, that is an honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer remember that fact.

THANK a VETERAN!!! :tup:

Happy Early Veteran's Day to all!

Thank You all :tiphat:

Don't forget that behind every vetern there is a Family. Military families provide the support that the Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine needs to be able to serve this great nation. So since there is not a day for them include the Families in your thanks.

I am humble at this time in thanking our veterans and their families for their service protecting our freedom. You are the firewall between tyranny and freedom, without you we as a Republic would not exist. God Bless You all

+1, military wives/families make sacrifices that few others will ever have to endure.

A lesson that should be taught in all schools and colleges...


Back in September, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School,
did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent,
the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms.. Cothren, where're our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'

'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.'

She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms.Cothren's classroom to report about this
crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom,
Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to
sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.

Twenty-seven (27) War Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk.
The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall...

By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand,
perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned..

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you.
Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens.
They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education.

Don't ever forget it.'

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The JSA at the DMZ. I took my wife on that trip when she came to visit me in Korea. I believe that everyone who goes to Korea needs to go on the DMZ tour.

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Thank You Vets!
 

Ex Navy myself.:usa:

Many Thanks to all that have served and to those who continue to serve! :tiphat:

Thanks to you all. Being the fact the I am working today makes it mean that much more. Also thanks to all others out there who are serving and have served. And another thanks to all the families who have to put up with everything and to mine who as home right now.

Thank you to all that have and are serving!

My BMT Photo Oct 20, 1997 :thumb:

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USAF 1997-2007; Operation Allied Force, Operation Southern Watch, Operation Iraqi Freedom

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-Scott

In fact it is! It was a Military History Class, which makes sense.

snopes.com: Veterans Return Desks

Thanks to all the Vets out there :usa:

your all welcome!

Ex US AIR FORCE 6years...3tours in IRAQ....i really miss the military though...did 1 year in iraq also as a KBR contractor in 2007

I'm a little disappointed that nobody in a Military History class coule figure out that veterans were responsible for their freedom.

Great lesson by the teacher...

Today despite the fact the kids have a Memorial Day (Canada) assembly at school I am going to read them a couple of letters that were printed that the veterans were told to right home before 'd-day' and were supposed to be written under the assumption it could very well be their last letter.

Very powerful stuff...

Where were you at in Iraq in 07?? I was in Balad from July to September 07..

Yes Balad Airbase! small world 332nd air expeditionary wing

LoL Yep, I was there at the 727th EACS "KingPin" Down next to the tower. What was your KBR job?

IT infrastructure analyst...Im trying so hard to go back again...the paycheck was insane

I was with the 332nd at Al Jaber AB, Kuwait in '00 and Balad AB, Iraq in '06. Fire Protection.

Thank you all and RIP to those that have died.

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USMC served in the Persian gulf war 90-91

I spent over three years in the Philippine Islands from 1969-1972 in the USAF. Anyone here serve as a "GI in the PI?" Best years of my life!
My father was a combat wounded vet of WW2 .. Bombadeer navigator in a B17.. anyone here have a father who was stationed in England during those years?

Thanks vets!!

Your Welcome