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  Arcadia (arcadia) 3-Pundit Username: arcadia Post Number: 54 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.237.14.51 |
Arcadia ((hug)) | ||
Dinelle (dinelle_watson) 4-Laureate Username: dinelle_watson Post Number: 96 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 68.222.32.140 |
Most of family served in the military. My stepdad served in the army. My mom's sister served in the army. My stepbrother served in the army. I have a brother who's a marine and serving in Iraq right now. He's supposed to be coming home before Labor Day. Maybe even before that. He says that after he gets out of the marines, he says that he's transferring to the air force. That's where I'll be going, too. If I don't go to GSU. | ||
Weldon A. Mc Dougal III (weldon) 5-Doyen Username: weldon Post Number: 173 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.80.162.3 |
Hi to all my Marine corp buddies in platoon-54 at Parris Island, SC 1955, where every you are, WELDON  (Message edited by weldon on May 30, 2004) | ||
Dinelle (dinelle_watson) 4-Laureate Username: dinelle_watson Post Number: 98 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 68.222.32.140 |
Not bad, Weldon. So, what was your rank? | ||
Weldon A. Mc Dougal III (weldon) 5-Doyen Username: weldon Post Number: 174 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.80.162.3 |
Dinelle,that was a long time ago, I was a Cpl, when I got out,also when I was in the Marine corp, I started a singing group called the Victors, and when I got out they were still singing, | ||
Dinelle (dinelle_watson) 4-Laureate Username: dinelle_watson Post Number: 99 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 68.222.32.140 |
Whoa! Now that's dedication. The same kind of dedication that I should be giving to my story lately. I guess I should be writing my story right about now. | ||
Arcadia (arcadia) 3-Pundit Username: arcadia Post Number: 56 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.237.17.242 |
Weldon, that is a very special photograph. Thanks for your service and for sharing all the prize winning photographs you provide here at SD. You know, each photo that you post provides a proper perspective to each and every post. It complete it! Love and Happy Memorial Day, A- | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 5-Doyen Username: wonder_b Post Number: 383 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.250.181.221 |
A lot of WWII US, UK, Canadian, Polish (and for the first time German vets) are already in France for the 60ieth anniversary of D-Day. They are huge celebrations planned on that occasion together with the US forces. Don't think there are many with us on SD here, but it is still nice to pay hommage to these guys who paid a dear price 60 years ago... Wonder B | ||
Pogo (pogo) 1-Arriviste Username: pogo Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.129.42.76 |
Wonder B, Thanks, and here's to all the veterans who never made it back. God bless them & their families. Pogo | ||
1wicked (1wicked) 3-Pundit Username: 1wicked Post Number: 60 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.126.64.72 |
Very true Wonder B...and the price paid is immeasureable. Not all victims of war lost their lives or a limb. To witness the horrors of war can mean a lifetime of emotional difficulty...and the use of many legal and illegal substances to dull the memories AND the pain. Imagine going through 8-12 weeks of basic training...developing friendships...experiencing the camerarderie of those you have come to rely on...and then seeing your 'friend" the next AND last time...with a "toe tag", ready to be shipped home SOON after being sent to the front line. (Just like in The Naked City, there are 9 million tales....this is just one of them.) War IS Hell ! | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 5-Doyen Username: wonder_b Post Number: 387 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.250.181.221 |
They showed a ceremony (on the news tonight) which was held on the Normandy coast at a US cemetery with over 9400 tombs, and it was heart wrenching to see the few survivors there who had all been given a name (at random) of fellowmen who had died, and they were placing flowers on their tombs... back then most of these guys were kids between 18 and 24 years old... War... what is it good for...? Wonder B | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 5-Doyen Username: wonder_b Post Number: 388 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.250.181.221 |
Yes, these guys lost their lives so we could enjoy ours today... They came over here to die in a foreign land and whatever you may hear or read on the US newspapers about the French (a lot of which is biased and just politicians's campaign tricks), be sure that each and everyone of them is forever grateful for those who risked their necks to come and free our country... someone had to do a dirty job and although they were not alone, the US paid the heaviest tribute to this madness... Wonder B | ||
Soul Sister (soul_sister) 6-Zenith Username: soul_sister Post Number: 607 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.21.244.254 |
Happy Memorial Day to Everyone and to all the Vets & their families, if you missed my thread. Sincerely, S.S.Jeanie & Jimmy Scott | ||
Moe (moe) 4-Laureate Username: moe Post Number: 133 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.219.162.219 |
I'd like to acknowledge all the Vets, especially the WWII vets (my father included). They've given alot to & for this country. | ||
Lynn Bruce (lynn_bruce) 3-Pundit Username: lynn_bruce Post Number: 38 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.41.119.244 |
Weldon,SEMPER FI!!! God bless all those that lost their lives. God bless and thank you to all living veterans. Lynn | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 476 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.200 |
To my Daddy - RIP - Willie 'Buckeye' Williams - WWII To my Uncle - RIP - Frank 'Snook' Williams - WWII To my Uncle - Leroy 'Bitty' Williams - Korean War Vet TO my Uncle - James'Pee Wee' Williams - Korean War Vet To my Uncle - RIP -Calvin "Rock Eye' Williams Jr. and my Grandfather - Calvin Willams, Sr. God Bless them all. DyvaNaye |
