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Offline TurboFource

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Happy Veterans Day!
« on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 04:01:28 AM »
Happy Veterans Day to any fellow Veterans out there!

Thank you for your service!
The more I do the more I find I need to do....

Offline dakazman

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #1 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 05:10:00 AM »
 
       Happy Veterans Day.


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Offline cwtech

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #2 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 08:28:33 AM »
I can't help but think of those who served or died fighting against principles this country currently embraces!

I know my Dad and his brothers (WWII) are "turning over in their graves." ...At least, I hope they're not voting.

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #3 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 08:50:17 AM »
Happy Veteran's Day to all, but especially veterans. Thank you all for your service! We don't do enough for you.

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #4 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 11:27:45 AM »
I remembered to put up the Stars and Stripes on the telegraph pole opposite my barn where B17 Eager Eagle crashed in my back garden on 30th August 1943 killing all the crew except the waist gunners who baled out. 

https://heroesofourtime.co.uk/eager-eagle.html

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #5 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 11:35:23 AM »
I'm not a vet or a descendant of a vet but I really appreciate your doing that, Alex!

Offline GavinT

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #6 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 07:48:00 PM »
In Oz we call it Remembrance Day – same thing, I think.

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marks the moment the guns fell silent on the Western Front after the bloodshed of World War I.

Pic of my father (middle) in the Middle East, WWII.

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #7 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 07:55:23 PM »
Yep, it's the same (11th month, day, hour, minute, etc.). Great picture, Gavin! I'm sure you're proud of your father!

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #8 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 08:22:49 PM »
Yeah, I like to think he did some good in what must have been a hell of a time.
He was posted to Germany after the war for the rebuilding effort and I was christened there.

Offline Richard48Y

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Re: Happy Veterans Day!
« Reply #9 on: Friday,November 11, 2022, 10:30:57 PM »
Not a veteran myself but my Land Rover 101 FC (Former Stinger missile carrier) is.
Drove it around today and got lots of thumbs up.