Veterans Day - Not Forgotten

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Hi Dave,

 

> Thankee, Butch! I know a lot of people appreciated your post,

> whether they say so or keep quiet like I almost did.

 

Welcome you are for sure. And right you are for sure that some folks

will bite their tongues and keep quiet in order to avoid having to go to

war with others who consider themselves as being pacifists. If one has

not had their head in the sand these past years, they will know that its

the pacifists that are the most vocal .. and warlike. ;-)

 

For some, the tradition of commenting on Veterans Day is similar to

Merry Christmas and Thanksgiving greetings, etc., .. especially on the

Aromatherapy Lists because there will always be some folks who follow

alternative/complementary modalities who are either truly liberal

thinkers (or maybe are seeking self) .. and others who wish to portray

themselves as being such so as to fit in with what they see as being the

In Crowd. Comments that might be considered as being Patriotic, or

(Gawd Forbid .. Uggh) Christian, (i.e., Thanksgiving & Christmas) is,

unfortunately, sorta not Politically Correct today.

 

Witches & Warlocks .. Buddhists & Shintos and whatever else one wants to

come up with .. as long as it appears to be a minority culture/religion,

i.e., not traditionally WASP .. is perfectly all right .. or maybe more

accurately, it is enlightened thinking. ;-)

 

> Only three of us at work are vets, but we knocked fists and swapped a

> few stories. (Snipped a bunch)

 

Good for you three .. and saluting you I am. :-p

 

(Snipped a bit here)

> Brooke Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio.

> That's where I spent a couple years.

 

A good hospital for sure .. I've visited folks there a few times.

 

(Snipped a bit)

> I was 20. I'm glad I wasn't actually in combat. There are things I'll

> never forget that have a lot to do with how I feel about war today. I

> wasn't a very good soldier, although I was a damn good corpsman. No, I

> wouldn't trade that time. And when the three of us high-fived today, we all

> knew that no matter which war and no matter how any of us might feel about

> what we went through, we shared something special with a special family of

> men and women of all ages. My very best wishes to each of you, wherever you

> are.

 

Being a good corpsman .. clerk .. mechanic .. or whatever combat support

or combat service support position one finds oneself in is as important

as being a good grunt or combat pilot. Its the support troops that keep

the mission going with beans, bullets and blood .. so you have every

right to be proud.

 

I hear you on the sharing .. that spirit of kinship or brotherhood. I

ran into that in Washington, D.C., this past July, while we were doing

the War Memorials. At the WW II Memorial, I had the honor of running

into two old fellers .. one a WW II Vet (not many of those folks left)

and the other was a Korean War Vet .. we got along just great from the

git go .. I took a photograph with them and its now a very important

part of my photo collection. It is the very last photo in the section

titled " Butch's Wanderings " .. on the list photo archive at this URL

http://health.ph./photos

 

Its on the 2d page of that series .. and at the bottom right hand corner

of each page there is a block we can click .. labeled " Next. "

 

> Dave

 

Again .. a salute to you podner .. and to all those who have served ..

whether in uniform .. or while waiting for their loved ones.

 

Y'all have a good one .. and keep smiling. :-) Butch