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Old 11-11-2013, 11:17 AM
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thanks, bigrun and everyone.

happy veterans day from a veteran, to my husband, my son, my active duty son on the ronald reagan, and to soldiers, sailors and airmen everywhere.


it's an especially poignant day for our remaining ww2 vets. at reunions, there are less and less who are there each time. a special thank you, with deep gratitude, to our greatest generation.

Family of vets dan, thank you all...Wife, oldest son and me were all USAF..Had 3 uncles in WWII, two in Pacific and one in Germany..thanks to all that have served..Having dinner at Applebees tonite with couple old vet friends..

From the article above, this one always tears me up.

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He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 39th Parallel.
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