Veterans/Remembrance Day

[mgoblue 0]

I just want to extend my sincere appreciation to any vets who also happen to be MSHers.

Thank you for your service; thank you for defending our country and perpetuating its honorable principles.

God bless America.

[dangle 0]

[Monty22 833]

[mgoblue 0]

[JR Boucicaut 3802]

Changed the title of this thread as it is also Remembrance Day. We are an international community and other countries are honoring its veterans as well.

[Rustpot 1]

Thanks to all who have served.

Also to those still serving. I have a cousin currently deployed in Iraq and my thoughts are with him often.

I have 3 grandparents who were in WWII, one in the Navy for the Pacific theater, one on the QEII for most of the war, and one an aide station/front line surgeon, all survived and may the two no longer with us RIP.

[D3nZ 0]

I welcomed two veterans at the school I work at, they were both very nice and I have alot of respect for those who serve and protect our country.

And to all of those who helped make our country a better place to live: Thank you!

[pantherfan 0]

Thoughts to soldiers both remaining and past from both sides.

[kovalchuk71 212]

Thank you to everyone that is serving/has served. Thank you for my freedom.

[Grinder 2]

Thoughts and prayers to the fallen and those who still serve. Lest We Forget.

[Aussie Joe 0]

I have family that has fought and/or died in all Wars of the modern era, to those that have lost recently...

"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."

- Pres. A. Lincoln

[Spreedizzle 1]

I don't think that it is any secret the amount of respect that I hold for both my country and those that are brave enough to dedicate their lives to protecting the liberties and freedoms that civilians like myself take for granted on a daily basis. I personally don't think that once a year is often enough to officially thank our VOLUNTARY military personell for their service to protect our freedoms, but in keeping with tradition.....Thank you for all that you do to ensure that the fight for our nations freedom is kept on international soil. Myself, I hold their dedication in very high regard as I personally would of loved to have served my country, yet due to physical inabilities and injuries was not able to enlist. So for those of you taking up in my place....I thank you.

So thanks to all that work so hard to protect those that they will never know personally.

[lampliter87 8]

Yes, to all of this.

I think this image says a lot, and hope that one day I am man enough to live up to men like this.

[CapsFan 5]

I can not thank those who have served/ will serve enough. You have made our countries great.

[Langenbrunner15 0]

Just wanted to say thank you for all those that risked your lives for the rest of ours.

[RadioGaGa 162]

Every year our radio stations run a Remembrance Day piece. It is usually a short spoken word about the importance of the "11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" followed by a moment of silence, and then 'In Flanders Fields' and 'Amazing Grace' or something solemn like that.

A couple years ago, I put "Taps" at the end of it. We air the piece at 11:00AM and it usually runs about 4-5:00.

My phone rings as it is ending...I answer it the way I always do: "Production". The guy on the other end goes "What the Hell was that?" He was angry that I had used Taps instead of "The Last Post" I had no idea that Canadians/Brits and Americans didn't use the same bugle salute to fallen soldiers. I apologized profusely to the guy but he continued to chew me out and call me unpatriotic and everything else. I finally told him my PD's (boss) name and said call him and hung up on him.

So, I've changed it and we use "The Last Post" now.

It's an odd day in my industry...scan the dial at 11:00 and hear silence on every station, on purpose. I suppose in the grand scheme of things it isn't much, but it is our contribution to the Remembrance...

btw...has anyone else read Bob MacKenzie's Remembrance Day piece about the "Highway of Heroes"

http://tsn.ca/blogs/bob_mckenzie/?id=255515

It must be an amazing/emotional sight to see...sadly, it is seen far to often.

Thank you to all who serve.

[jrhky36 1]

thank you t oall of you who has express you graditude. serving people like you who have respaect, loyality and gratitude in your hearts make sevring this country worth every minute of pain i went through.

like Aussie Joe my family has fought in every conflict since wwi. i have taken great pride in following in the footsteps laid b/4 me by my great grandads, grandad, dad, uncles and cousin, father-in law.

something that can never be taken from us is our dedication to this country. as long as we can fight freedom will survive.

and i to would like to pass along my thanks t omy fellow service members. Semper Fi

to really live you must almost die. for those who fight for it life has a meaning the protected will neve know

[D-MaN88 0]

I know I might be late, but thank you for all the sacrifices made by those past and present in protecting our freedom and our right to live in this great nation of ours.

Coming from a family that has had generation after generation serve in the armed forces, I can't express enough of my appreciation and thanks in words how much your service and sacrifice means.

God bless you all, past and present. And to those who made the ultimate sacrifice serving, sincerely R.I.P.

Thanks again!

[interpathway 9]

A little late as well, but I too feel a need to express thanks for everything I am able to have today; freedom, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[Aussie Joe 0]

It's never too late INTERPATHWAY.

[jimmy 194]

It's never too late INTERPATHWAY.

So true. Never too late, and not just on veteran's day. If I'm ever in a store and see an old guy with a WWII, Korea or Vietnam hat, I ALWAYS go over to him and shake his hand and thank him for what he/they did. It just takes a few minutes to chat but they appreciate it more than you would ever know. I did 29 yrs myself but what they did puts my service to shame. A breed by themselves, but certainly our current generation of Iraqi and Afgan vets are right up there with them. Thank you guys!