11.11.11 Happy Vets Day.

clyde · #1 11-13-2011, 03:50 PM

BigRun.....I get the feeling you have experienced the heat of battle. Can you say?

bigrun · #2 11-13-2011, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by clyde

BigRun.....I get the feeling you have experienced the heat of battle. Can you say?

Nope, AF duty all stateside...Had 3 uncles in WWII, 2 in the Pacific and 1 in Germany....all saw action....Have met several Nam and Iraq vets and heard their stories....a close local vet is a smallish guy served two tours in Nam..Now works a full time and part time job at 65 yo and no retirement in sight...hellova guy....

Guy asked me if i ever saw combat and i gave him my patented story..
I spent 4 years in the AF, all but basic in CA....Told only time i saw combat was one nite in SF i was walking down Market Street and three queers chased me down an alley...Then told him 'one of them got away'....

clyde · #3 11-13-2011, 04:25 PM

!!

That was highly amusing...and thanks again.

You seem like a real good guy.

bigrun · #4 11-13-2011, 05:13 PM

Anyone watch CBS 48 hours mystery last nite?...Very sad story of an Iraq vet with PTSD that beats his girlfriend to death...

Riot · #5 11-13-2011, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by bigrun

Anyone watch CBS 48 hours mystery last nite?...Very sad story of an Iraq vet with PTSD that beats his girlfriend to death...

Homeless and unemployed veterans have been a big part of the Occupy movement across the country. One died living at an Occupy encampment, and one committed suicide by gun, while living at an Occupy encampment this past week.

This country needs to get it's priorities right. Quickly.

dellinger63 · #6 11-13-2011, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

Homeless and unemployed veterans have been a big part of the Occupy movement across the country. One died living at an Occupy encampment, and one committed suicide by gun, while living at an Occupy encampment this past week.

This country needs to get it's priorities right. Quickly.

we agree.

Would have been great to instead of handing over $2 billion to Egypt and another billion to Pakistan this President would have seen fit to reward his own troops.

And to think the Dems, if the super committee can't agree, want the military to shoulder the burden of cuts.

Happy Thanksgiving Troops!

dellinger63 · #7 11-13-2011, 06:46 PM

could have given every amputee returning from Iraq/Afghanistan from 2001-2011, $2 million and still had money left over! Wonder how many jobs that would have produced compared to jobs created related to the money thrown away to Egypt and Pakistan?

Meanwhile he talks behind the backs of his 'so called' allies like a ghetto biatch from Bad Girls Club.

Vets on behalf of the country, I'm sorry.