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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 16:27:05 GMT -5
Happy Veterans Day and thank you and to our veterans for keeping us safe. Not sure if there are any veterans or active duty folks, reservists, or National Guard here, but if so, a big thank you to you!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 16:31:05 GMT -5
I already thanked 3 Veterans today and their service and planning on meeting several of my friends tomorrow who are veterans thanking them as well too. I just wanted to thank them for their sacrifice and hard work in keeping our country safe and secure.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 11, 2016 19:29:13 GMT -5
My son (still active) is preparing for the parade on Sunday... I am quite proud to think he'll be a veteran too, one day.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 11, 2016 19:51:58 GMT -5
Yes thank you all for your bravery. Doesn't matter if you physically fought or not. You still were in harms way and an intrical part of helping the soldiers no matter your job.
Thank your son for me RR.
Thank you DE Sinclair
Thank you codystarbuck
Slam do I remember you saying you served as well? Didn't you Juggernaut? If so thank you.
(I need to learn how to use the mention function.)
And thank you to anyone else here who I forgot to mention. Or any here whose loved ones did/still do.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 11, 2016 21:52:43 GMT -5
Ex-US Navy, Supply Corps, here. NROTC midshipman 1984-88, active duty 1988-92, during Operation Desert Storm (stateside, though) As usual, I was working on Veterans Day and met a man who served in the Army Air Force, in WW2, in the Pacific. We shook hands and thanked each other, plus one of our drivers is a reservist and had served overseas.
Want to point folks to an excellent graphic novel, from a veteran: A Sailor's Story, by Sam Glanzman. Glanzman was a noted artist at Charlton, especially on The Lonely War of Willy Schultz, with Will Franz, in Fightin' Arm; and, Hercules. Willy Schultz is a great read and realistic war drama. hercules is just beautiful, with a nice baroque, art nouveau style to Glanzman's work. He also worked on the DC war books and was noted for his USS Stevens stories, based on his experiences on the actual ship (a destroyer, in the south Pacific). Glanzman expanded upon this in two volumes, at Marvel, which has been collected in one, by Dover. Glanzman reported abourd as a young man, at the beginning of the war, and served until around 1945. The USS Stevens saw action in the Marshalls and the Solomons, as well as off the coast of New Guinea. Glanzman not only covers this element of his service; but also what it was like, day to day, on a US Naval vessel. He takes you on a tour and gives you an in-story glossary of naval terms, as he is shown around the ship, upon first reporting aboard. He illustrates the Shellback Initiation, where sailors celebrate crossing the Equator. Those who haven't crossed are lowly pollywogs and offend King Neptune by crossing into his kingdom. They must go through a series of tests (hazing, really) to become hardy shellbacks. In Glanzman's day, they had to run a gauntlet, where they beat you with lengths of firehose. In my day, it was more humiliation and crawling through crud though a few commands got out of hand and there was a death on another ship, within a year of my ship's crossing. Glanzman captures the peace of the sea, on a moonlit night and the chaos of combat. He is a master storyteller.
His USS Stevens stories have also been collected by Dover.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 11, 2016 22:34:54 GMT -5
Thank you all for the kind words, and thanks to my fellow veterans for their service. I served 1980-1985 in the Navy as a Data Processing technician. I was enlisted and never went south of the Equator, so I never became a shellback. Happy Veterans Day to all.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 11, 2016 23:09:45 GMT -5
My grandfather (my father's father) was a cook in the Navy. Hungry soldiers probably don't fight as well as solider with full stomachs. Thank y'all again. It's a kind of bravery I never had. Thank you for making American life safe and comfortable.
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