Leave it to the Chair Force dudes running upside down Allision t56s to not understand a joke...That is why the Navy knows how to install those properly, and get jokes...
Leave it to the Chair Force dudes running upside down Allision t56s to not understand a joke...That is why the Navy knows how to install those properly, and get jokes...
Originally Posted by rareraj
ut oh shots fired lol
I never served but hold all those who did especially in combat in reverence. Just the fact that young men and women put their lives on hold to go into the military isnt lost on me. Add in the threat of death for those who end up in actual combat just the thought of living with that kind of stress is to much for me. I have talked to friends who did tours in combat zones and they say you kind of get used to living on edge but I dont see how. I know guys who served in combat more than 50 years ago who are still affected by what they experienced. Thats powerful stuff if you ask me. So I always pay my respect to those who served but especially to those who saw combat.
I have always been fascinated with history in general but mainly military history. In my business I have been blessed that I have had a lot of veterans that were my customers for decades. I became very close with some over the years and have been lucky enough to have some open up and tell me about their experiences. I am going back many years but three of my dads customers who I got to know when I was a kid working for my dad in the business that I eventually took over were WWII veterans. One a marine who went though the pacific until being wounded on iwo another a ball turret gunner on a 17 who was shot down and a pow in Germany at stalag luff III (I no longer remember the dates but he was a prisoner for nearly 2 years) and one who landed in the third wave at Normandy in a M10 tank destroyer and fought his way across Europe into the heart of Germany.
I wont bore you with stories but I feel so blessed to have gotten to know each man over many years from the time I was a kid until I grew up into a young man. The last (the marine) died in 2008 at the age of 84. I carry their stories with me just as they told them to me and will for the rest of my life. Dad also had one friend who died when I was real young who I remember as a frail old man. He was on battan and had to endure horrible torture and conditions. He wore and eye patch because a japanese interrogator put his cigarette out in his eye when he was a prisoner. I can remember him showing the eye to me as a kid once but mainly I remember him having a quietness about him that was different than anyone I had ever been around before or since. Long after he passed my father told me about his life and what he had endured and I read a great deal about him as his son wrote a few things about his dads experiences at the hands of the japanese. I could go on for days about the relationships I have now or have had in the past before they died with veterans of Korea and Vietnam.
I get really upset when I think of all the sacrifices so many young men made for this great country and to see the way things have progressed to where we are now it drives me crazy. We as country have strayed so far off the path that our previous generations layed out for us that any real man who understands history and knows the way the actual world works knows that we are in serious trouble. We have opened ourselves up for a tremendous defeat in the future. I am not sure where the fight will come from but I am sure that it will come one day and when it does we wont be ready. The ones who will be called upon will be in their safe space waiting for their trophy for participating while being sure to be politically correct and not hurt anyone's feelings. I am afraid for the USA and all of the women and children who will be dependent on the new generations of men coming up today at some point in the future when called upon. I just don't see us being able to make the sacrifices that the generations that came before us made because lets face it we stopped trying to make men and started trying to protect everyone's feelings. I just dont see that working as well as when my grandfather and his brothers were growing up as young boys who all ended up serving in WWII.
Sorry that took a strange turn but I wanted to finish once I started and I wanted to make sure those that served know how much I truly appreciate their sacrifices. Just to give a little insight to Basscat as a person I feel pretty much the same way about those who choose a career in LE also. So a big thank you to all those who served and I wont get involved in this Air Force Navy battle thats shaping up above because I haven't earned the right to even have an opinion.
Well put, Basscat. I feel the same way. I never served either, but I hold everyone that does and has, as a hero in my book. I'm free because of you ladies and gentlemen that did. And the police as well. Thank you ALL.
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