Thank You for your Service....

[Seajay]

THANK YOU


Thank you personnel of our armed services for keeping this nation safe.


Thank you Coast Guard. You are the ''forgotten service'' to this nation. Thank you for being the first line of defense for this great nation. Thank you for guarding our shores and your close watch over persons that could do harm to our ports and endanger our way of life. Thank you Coast Guard for your brave men and women that will risk life and limb to save a person that has ventured into ''Harms way''. Thank you for jumping out of a perfectly good helicopter into freezing water to help a person that is in the wrong place at the wrong time knowing that some ''coastie'' will risk life and limb to get their butt out of trouble. Thank you for doing the boring jobs that no one else wants. For tending the buoys and minding the channel markers and keeping the ''lanes'' of ocean traffic open and running smooth into and out of our ports that feed the economy of this nation from overseas. Thank you for your dedication to a job that is seldom seen and almost never recognized for its great value to this nation. Thank you for being there when we need you and your willingness to put your self in jeopardy to save some other life.
Thank you for your ''over watch'' of this great nation and for being our first line of defense along our shore line against all insurgents concerning this great nation..........


Thank you Army. Thank you for your heritage of being ''Minute Men'' at Concord Green and Bunker Hill. Thank you for your sacrifice at Valley Forge and a thousand battles in our war for Independence. Thank you for fighting with Jackson at New Orleans and thank you for doing your duty in our great civil war when this nation tried to tear its self apart. Thank you for fighting with '' Black Jack'' Pershing in WWI. Thank you for standing in long lines in WWII to ''join up'' for service in Europe or where ever Uncle Sam saw fit to send you. Thank you for living under a steel helmet, sitting in the rain, eating cold “C” rations, standing in the mud, marching endless miles and digging a fox hole only to be told ''Wer'e movin' out in five minutes, get your stuff together soldier''. Thank you for being the backbone of our defense in World War Two and all your sacrifices for this great nation. Thank you for fighting the forgotten war called Korea. You remember, that ''police action'' that so many seem to have forgotten. Thank you for Nam when we thought we could ''spoon feed'' Democracy to a nation that had no idea what Democracy was. Thank you for never losing a battle and never quitting in Nam. Thank you for fighting a hundred ''small wars'' like Granada and Panama and for Desert Shield and Desert Storm and the liberation of Iraq and the endless ''slog'' thru Afghanistan. Thank you for being an Army of one or should I say ''won''....


Thank you Marine Corp. Good Lord, where do I start. Thank you for standing in the ''tops'' on old Iron Sides and raining death from above on our enemy. Thank you for being ''first to fight'' regardless of the odds and for your ''devil dog'' attitude. Thank you for your pride in service and your ''esp-re decor'' and being ''first in'' and ''last to leave''. Thank you for keeping the U.S. Marine Corps one of the most revered and feared forces in the world today. Thank you for fighting the war in the Pacific in World War II. Thank you for being ready to fight at a moments notice, anywhere, anytime. Thank you for your ''never say die'' attitude and thank you for your contribution in Korea and again in Viet Nam. Mere words can not express gratitude for your service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the hundreds of ''blood and guts skirmishes'' from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli you have fought since your inception so many years ago when it was discovered that the US Navy needed sharp shooters in the ''tops'' to rain death on the enemy and the Marine Corp was founded. God bless our Marine Corps and keep them strong forever......Semper Fi my brothers.


Thank you U.S Air Force. You are the ''newest'' branch of service to the country and being the Worlds Best at what you do. Like it is said....'' When you absolutely, positively need it blown it all to hell.... Call for the B52's and stand back'' …... '' When you need one put thru the door, call a B1 and figure ''Mission Accomplished.'' You service was born from the second world war as your own entity and you have proven your worth a million times over giving ''high cover'' to the guys on the ground when they need it most. Countless times you have shown your courage often times fighting superior forces with superior air craft and never saying quit. Thank you for being there when you were needed and being there when no one believed you ''could be there'' and doing what you do so well. Thank you for ''roaming under the floor of Heaven, looking down for an enemy that is looking up to trying to destroy you because you have no place to hide in your chosen domain ''. Thank you U.S. Air Force...... Gods speed and blessing to you each and every one.....


Thank you Navy. My Navy and my fathers Navy. My Navy that roams the seven seas as the mightiest ocean fleet the world has ever seen. My Navy that is a combination of peaceful force that delivers much needed relief supplies all over the world at a moments notice. My Navy that will station a Hospital Ship off a foreign shore to render medicine and health care to a stricken nation and ferry in food and all the necessaries of life and ask nothing in return for your great service. My Navy that stands ready, willing and able to strike an enemy with a force never before seen on this planet and the ability to deliver that force any time and almost anywhere there is water on this planet. My Navy that lives under the sea for months listening and waiting, searching for the enemy that is dumb enough to strike the mightiest nation the world has ever known since the dawn of time. My Navy personnel that spend countless months roaming the seas, showing the flag and letting the world know that we are ready, willing, and able to dispatch any enemy, or help a friend any time, and any where. My Navy that is a ''can do'' force under the sea, on the sea and above the sea and My Navy ''CAN DO'' the ''Difficult'' at a moments notice and the ''Impossible'' may take a few minutes longer.
With respect to all, yes I am partial to the Navy, My Navy because I am second generation Navy and I am very proud of my small service to this nation in the U.S. Navy.
Again I thank all our service personnel regardless of rank or stripe that are in the service to this great nation and I thank all Veterans that have given so much of their life in service to this great nation.
God bless our troops and bring them home safe and soon.


''Nuff Said I guess.''

[homelesshobo]

Every day I say the following and I do mean litterally every day:

"Thank you God for allowing us to have the Military people we do. Look upon them and protect them."

From a Marine who knows what war is, my deepest thanks to all who served.

[sgtjoe]

Amen, my brothers, Amen.

Enough can't be said or done to honor our Men and Women who choose to protect and serve this Nation, past and present.

I would like to share one of those little things that my wife and I do each Winter in Yuma, AZ. It started about 5 years as we were in a little cafe eating breakfast. Across from us was a young couple with a little girl about two years old, the wife was pretty far along on another child and from the way the young man appeared I knew he was a Marine from the Yuma Marine Air Wing. From the looks on their faces and the way they were talking and holding hands across the table it didn't take a Rocket Scientist to figure out he was getting ready to deploy. As we were about to get up and leave I told my wife what I was going to do. We waited until the waitress placed their bill on the table, then we got up and walked over to their table. I told him, "you're a Marine aren't you, he looked up and said "yes sir, how do you know" I replied, takes one to know one, Once, Always, Thanks for your service as I held out my hand, then I picked up their tab and said breakfast is on us. I have often wondered if he made it home to his wife and children safely. So, each year when we are in Yuma we do it again, in a restaurant or a bar we'll pick up a tab for a meal or a round of drinks to show our appreciation for a Job well Done.