To all that have or are currently serving in the armed forces of the United States of America. Thank you.
if those guys did not do what they do we would be driving volkswagons or toyotas. thank you very mutch!
Thanks to the Vets then and now.............My day was in the Pacific in the day,wish he had been willing to talk about it more
To all vets on this day, I thank you all. And I thank the HAMB for all of the support that is given to us
we do drive VW's and toyotas..... my uncle bob, cousin keith, high school buddy Al Quiggly and another fellow whose name escapes me... before shipping out to the South Pacific. All Sargents. on liberty ship, en route.... war ended while at sea.... they were to take part in the invasion of Japan.
If you can read this, thank a teacher, if you can read it in English thank a vet. Amen, buddy, amen. JK
my grandfather prolly served with them in the Army of Occupation in Japan... Grandad was in North Africa, Italy and got shipped to the Pacific theater after the surrender signing on the deck of the MO...
On VJ day 1945, My Father was the lieutenant of a recon platoon in the 2nd Marine division. He was slated to land near Sasebo (near Nagasaki) in the Spring of 1946, when the assault on the Southern Island of Japan was to begin, and was at VJ time busy with the staff work of plotting artillery concentrations on beach heads and such. The Northern Island was to be attacked in 1947...projections were for 400,000 American casualties, Japanese casualties in the millions. The Marines rebuilding their units after Okinawa and Iwo considered their chances of being alive in 1948 after serving as the points of two more invasions to be very, very low. All over Europe, the American, British, and Indian troops who had just survived their roles in the western theatre were reorganizing and re-equipping for transfer to the invasion...
My grandfather was also in the 2nd division, and brought home a Japanese rifle off of, or nearby Nagasaki. It had to be shipped home in a box because it was still radioactive. I have that rifle now. Semper Fi
Besides thanking a vet,be sure to thank all those who made the weapons of war at home in the US auto factories.And for sure thank the nerds that built a working nuclear bomb.
Sorry, I'm kind of a ship nut. I'm also from Arizona and this isn't completely off topic. After sinking, the USS Arizona was left where she sat, but a few parts of her were salvaged, mainly turrets 3 and 4, which were later installed as coastal defense guns. One (Battery Arizona) was on the western end of Oahu, which was never completed. The other (Battery Pennsylvania, named after Arizona's sister ship) was on east end on the Mokapu Peninsula. It was test fired on or around VJ day and scrapped shortly after. http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/013966b.jpg
Thank you to all of our vets, past, present, and future also. The medal shown, is permanently attached to our car for our son and all the members of seal team 7, Who are over there now protecting us. GOD BLESS THEM ALL
Wow. I had an appointment at the VA hospital today and had the pleasure of shaking hands with a WWII vet. Thanks to them and all who served before and those who still are.
From another site-- http://forums.corvetteforum.com/off...eunited-with-his-airplane.html#post1571131459 Tom...
To All that served past and present, God Bless. Funny, I didn't hear anything on the news this morning about the anniversary of VJ but I did on the anniv. of Hiroshima. Hmmm.
My grandfather was with the 32nd Infantry Division, '42-'45, Saidor and Aitape, Drimunoir River on Aitape (where one of the largest banzai charges of the War occured, 10,000 Japanese attaked across the river en masse, ) Leyte and Luzon, ended the war chasing Yamashita up an down the Villa Verde Trail there, after being hit twice. I miss him alot.
How many of you can say your mother in law was actually a Marine? This is my wife's mother and father just after they were married 1943
It's just a shame that so many heroes never got a chance to celebrate it. Big salute to all the vets.
I just worked at a customers house.....he landed at Normandy on day 3 and went all the way to Germany....we had a great day talking to each other....one grunt to another....It was kind of rough for him to talk, but he did open up to another soldier......I have to admire the guys from WW2....when they went in they had NO idea when they were comeing home again........Thanks to all who served......stan....USMC 68-69
My Mother was born on VJ Day, 1945 and named Victory Jane so Happy Birthday to her. Especially thank you to all that serve our Country past and present.
Thank you Uncle Dick (built the Al-Can Hwy. and was in the Aleutians when the Japanese attacked)and Thank you Dad (B-17 and B-24 pilot then was a crop-duster)..Glad you made it through and sprouted me..any of you guys tell the family stories and buy the spot for them at the WWII Memorial in D.C.? its a worthy cause..To all you men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, God Bless you and wish I was a little younger so I could be there too...
God bless ever one of them for all that have done and are doing now to protect freedom. I never let a uniform go by without thanking them. Its the right thing to do.
My pops was one of those bad luck guys that was in the USMC ready to get out when the war started and had to stay in. He did the big south pacific tour with the 5th Marines and thought things were done. Got to stay home long enough after WWII to help conceive my sister, me, and my brother THEN Korea started and he got RECALLED and did his time there. Miss him everyday. Photo of him getting ready to go after Christmas leave in 1941
I never tire of thanking our vets. For all you've done & all you will do, thank you for protecting & preserving our way of life in the greatest country in the world!
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