I had posted earlier about this day being November 10th. The day the Marine Corps was formed. Also to honor all of the veterans of this great nation. For those of you who read it and replied thank you. For those veterans out there thank you for your service, and brave sacrifice. For the loved ones who have lost a member of their family while they served this great nation I pray you have found peace in your heart or are finding that peace one day at a time. My post was deleted by the moderators and I don't know why. There are many other post on this website that deal with hotrods and veterans. I am a veteran. I have been in the Marines 18 years and have fought in several battles with in the last 10 years. I am also a hotrodder. I love traditional style hot rodding and all that it represents. It seems that hotrodding and veterans go hand in hand seeing is that most of what we call traditional was born out of the pre and post WWII era. If my post was too off topic and it offended some one, too bad. This is one of the best websites there is covering everything I love about cars. I just feel that deleting my post was a ****ty thing to do considering what today is and what it means to me and so many of us on here. Here is a a picture of me in front of my 1940 Chevy taken last night before the 235th Marine Corps Ball. Happy Birthday Marines and Semper Fidelis to all of you and every Veteran and family memeber out there. And yes I realize I do not have my cover on. It was in the front seat of my car.
As retired soldier and gear head (Go ARMY) I commend you for your service and salute to all of us veterans out there! 1969-72 1979-95 (retired)
Some members are pacifists, some are Hawks and many are not veterans (I'm not a veteran)...I'm certain the mods were just following the owner's rules and regs...which I'm sure you can appreciate, seeing how you've taken orders yourself. This site was set-up to discuss hot rods...not the Marine Corps or any other military establishment. Regardless, the military gave us our freedom, which is not free at any time. I salute your service, Sir, and the anniversary, and can only hope the mods will let this one slide on by, seeing as how you've got your hot rod pictured this time. R-
They didn't delete it, they moved it to the "Roll Call Military Veterans Past And Present " thread and added it there. Semper Fi and Happy Birthday Gunny
OOOPS sorry then. There is a good chance that I am still a little hungover from lastnights festivities.
Happy veterans day from American legion post 392 pineville mo. If it were not for Veterans there would not be any freedom or hot rods. God bless America, May she always be the land of the free.
God bless & stay safe.Thank you for your service from one past veteran to one current one. May the land of the free always be, & like my guns they can have my hot rods when they pry my cold dead fingers off the steering wheel. Bobbyd
Can't really speak for Ryan or the mods, but my guess is that they merged all the Marine threads into the "rollcall"...there were 5-6 this morning alone. So far as I know, when threads are merged, there's no notification to the original poster...there's just a "Moved" tag on the main forum board that stays out there for a little while. Anyway, happy "anniversary", so to speak, and thanks for your service!
God Bless and stay safe-My son will be home next month on the 15th after 12 months of combat and we feel blessed he received no injuries. All you vets deserve all the support and kudos we can give.
My dad was in peace time Army,and my great uncle served in the Navy in WW2.He was a radioman 1st cl*** on the USS Duncan DD485.Which was sunk by the Japanese forces in the Battle of Cape Esperance during the night of Oct 11-12 1942. I want to thank all Veterans who made this country what it is today.If it wasnt for the vets,we would not be here discussing what we love.
A big thank you goes out to all, the brave folks who became Marines . I had a friend join back in 1969. I never saw my friend John again . However , I know he is Semper Fi ! Thank you all for you're brave service to this country ........... scrubba
AHH YUTTTT!! Happy Birthday there Gunny!!!! What unit ya with? I did a lil stint with BLT 1/3 in Hit and Fallujah in '04-'05 as an Engineer with Co. "C" 6th ESB thats what funded my Model A
I'll add a happy birthday too, have a nephew (a gunny) that had a trip to the sand pit , recruiting duty and now back to Afganistan, my military was short a couple of Army years 66-68, glad we have young guys that are willing to protect old geezers like me and my family!!
So let's play name that military vehicle...........because that would make one heck of a nice lookin hauler.
Semper Fi, and stay safe to all that have served and all that are serving. Happy Birthday and thank you for keeping America Safe. -LarryG USMCR (1989-1997)
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