jamminalong wrote:
sleepy wrote:
Thank you! for starting this thread and all of the other vets for helping remember.
Those that are no longer here won't hear our thanks... those that served know that we thank them for serving... knowing that they have offered the surpreme sacrifice just by serving.
I volunteered USAF 1958 - 1962
grandson Jory... Army, died May 2006
grandson Casey... USAF, Lakenheath currently
I am proud of all veterans.
I saw first hand how our Viet Nam Vets were treated by many when they returned home. I also choose to take this day to thank them, and every other day. It doesn't take an act of congress to recognize them.
Thank all of you that have served, all that sacrificed.
sleepy
Well said Sleepy I couldn't agree more! Many thanks for their service!
me - U.S. Navy
son - U.S. Air Force
dad - U.S Navy
brother - U.S. Army
uncle - U.S Navy
And of course your best friend was Navy Jammin' ... I thank him too!
I have work friends that were among the first 18 "advisers" in 1960, 1961 Viet Nam... Harold Yoder, a Classmate went several times, Bill Johnson went back 3 times... Elmer A. still has extremely bad dreams (many of these people are eaten up with remorse because they came back at all, or what they saw and did while there)
Is it too much to thank them... they gave more than their "all" in some ways... they have given evey night since. (Their families have too) I worked for more than thiry years in the facilities where the A Bombs were designed and built for the B-52's and other delivery devices. The workers are now refered to as "Cold War Patriots" by the government and medical people... The radiation and nuclear contamination is eating many of them alive. Cancers and heavy metal poisoning... a few died quick, thousands are dying at this moment from problems directly linked to their work.
What is worse... many of the workers were also in the military in battle situations in Viet Nam, Korea. and the Middle East both before and during their employmeny in the bomb plants
I have never done anything heroic... I'm a nobody!
But, I have to take a medical every 3 years even in my 9th year of retirement... including a low-dose CAT Scan for problems cause by the work that I did for the government
A couple of years ago the guy on the CAT Scan table next to me was having trouble getting off the table... after he left I asked the technicion what was wrong... he answered... The guy was terminal... he had to have a Cat Scan evey month... the researcher/doctors were monitored him while he is dying.... he is toatally eaten up with cancer. He was veterean and a machinest processing Nucular materials for our military. He died a couple of months later. I'll thank him tomorrow.
All Nuclear workers and Uranium workers... thank you too!
Do I want thanked? NO! Of course not... but I'm embarressed when I think that someone else is getting a lecture because I thought that I was being thanked.
I volunteered for everything. It is no ones fault.
I proudly joined the Air Force... for what turned out to be a peace time tour.
Years later, I applied for the job at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and did it proudly, I was paid well, and contributed my little bit.I will continue to thank all that have given with no restrictions, no limitations, and no anamosity toward those that want to hold their thanks to the letter of the Congessional Act from many years ago.
Thank you for your service to our country
Chet
