Club Cobra - Veterans Day

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Figured I would start....

God bless our Veterans and all that have served. Let's never forget them.

This event is done around the corner from my house and done with the utmost respect and dignity for all. A most moving experience. Just watch the presentation on the website.

Please take a moment to remember them in some way, wherever you are.

Covina Field of Valor | An amazing project created by the Covina Rotary Club

I would love to hear the sound of that many flags blowing in the wind.

Lester
Vietnam 1970

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Originally Posted by lcrabtree (Post 1271487)

I would love to hear the sound of that many flags blowing in the wind.

Lester
Vietnam 1970

I will try to get it for you tomorrow if wind is blowing.
It is simply amazing. All military there and stand watch 24/7 over the flags. They never move. Silence when you are walking the field. Thank you for your serving Lester!

-Michael

Despite many current problems, it is still the greatest country in the world, and I salute those who have sacrificed to make it that way.

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Originally Posted by Bernica (Post 1271485)

Michael,

Thank you for starting this post. Veterans Day is very important to me as I know it is to many.

Ted

I usually start a thread on another board and glad someone started here. I usually post on Veterans & Memorial Days and other certain days.

And to my brothers across the pond that are looking back to those that they have lost...today is Remembrance Day for them, their Memorial Day.

I asked Chris on Cars a few days ago what he was going to post for Veterans Day and he responded probably repost an older Memorial Day post.

I guess I put a fire under his butt because he posted this. http://chrisoncars.com/2013/11/stand...stood-for-you/

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

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 38th parallel.

She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back at all.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is any of the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "Thank You." That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot.

Peace

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My Hero is living here with me at 89 and doing great!

France 1944 after D-Day Before Battle of the Bulge.

https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/...16078433_n.jpg

Thanks for posting this thread. We don't do enough for our veterans. They deserve better then they get.

Freedom is not free.

A amazing video.

SPITFIRE 944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY

Where's GRUFF? Man probably blowing some s@@t up or landing at night on a carrier. Some guys have all the fun.

Thanks GRUFF