Happy Veterans Day To All Who Served

[Fleet 1]

Aloha.....

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[Bolt-O]

Happy Veterans Day! Thanks for all that served and are currently serving. Also, outside the US, many countries observe this day for its war dead, for the anniversary of the end of World War I. If you haven't seen it, the new version of All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix is a harrowing view of war. This version alters the end of the story, won't spoil it, its just different in the events, and adds a couple of characters that highlights how different war is from the actual fighting.

[wu-dai clan]

Thank you Vets.
Great job.
We are grateful for your tremendous sacrifices.

[21&500]

100%
Thank you for our freedom.

[Heatmiser]

Here, here! To all our Vets on this board, my undying gratitude and admiration for your service.

Please, anytime you see a vet thank them for their service. You will not believe how many great conversations and friendships I have built by that simple act of gratitude.

And if you have the means, when you see someone in uniform, buy their lunch, their dinner, their beer. I have done this countless times but have learned to keep it anonymous if possible. I bought dinner for a lady army officer in an airport from across the room and she took offense to it, as she thought I had other motives which I did not. But that was one out of a hundred. Most others were very appreciative.

My boss as a young college guy was a former helicopter gunner who served in Viet Nam. The way he was treated when he came home disgusts me. I will continue to do whatever I can to show appreciation to our heroes. Freedom is not free.

TG

[Air Coryell]

Our veterans are the backbone of the country. Much respect to all of them!

[WindsorUK]

Respect

[21&500]

I will also humbly offer some unsolicited advice:
many vets suffer from job-related mental health disorders beyond the stereotyped "PTSD"
Trauma runs through the body and mind and affects individuals differently.
All that to say, some vets might get triggered by too big a gesture, so I always recommend a small, quiet but sincere "thank you" and wait a second to make sure it sat well.
Selfishly thinking about my pops, 21 years in the Navy, most in a submarine and the rest on aircraft carriers.
he's a great man but he gets really nervous and awkward when good-meaning people simply walk-up to thank him.
even other (Vietnam) vets will go up to him and sincerely embrace him as tribute to a brotherhood and I can tell he starts having flashbacks in real time.
so FWIW, please try to consider that.
Cheers.

[Heatmiser]

Good words, 21. Good words.

TG

[sonorajim]

Thanks from a vet to other vets. God bless.

[Berserker76]

Thank you vets of all services! Our freedom derives from your sacrifices.

[Velo]

I will also humbly offer some unsolicited advice:
many vets suffer from job-related mental health disorders beyond the stereotyped "PTSD"
Trauma runs through the body and mind and affects individuals differently.
All that to say, some vets might get triggered by too big a gesture, so I always recommend a small, quiet but sincere "thank you" and wait a second to make sure it sat well.
Selfishly thinking about my pops, 21 years in the Navy, most in a submarine and the rest on aircraft carriers.
he's a great man but he gets really nervous and awkward when good-meaning people simply walk-up to thank him.
even other (Vietnam) vets will go up to him and sincerely embrace him as tribute to a brotherhood and I can tell he starts having flashbacks in real time.
so FWIW, please try to consider that.
Cheers.

We can never do too much and we never do enough, it seems, to help veterans. My dad withered away in the hospital at age 55 from an alcoholic's disease. He slowly succumbed to the PTSD, or whatever you want to call it, he suffered most of his life, the result of being captured by the Germans in WWII and the brutality he endured as a POW for almost three years. They didn't have a name for PTSD then. It was just called shell shock. And if you couldn't take it anymore on the front lines and checked in to the hospital, you might get slapped by General Patton and called a coward. We ask a lot of our service men and women, especially those who go into combat. We owe it them to make sure they have best care possible.