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Happy Veterans Day and thank U 4 Serving!
DawgBiscuit
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A big thank-U to all U.S. veterans who have sacrificed for this nation, especially those who have become impaired in some way due to their service. May God bless U and UR family.
Go Dawgs!
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Please add my appreciation to the list..
Happy Veterans Day from my greatful heart and home to all of those who woke up and were willing to face danger instead of running away!
The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month.
We stop to thank and Salute all Veterans!!
Yes indeed. Thank you to all you Vets for your service! Hard to believe this thread only has 4 up votes thus far.
Texted a dear Vet buddy that I don't see often enough just to say thinking about ya bro....and shed a tear as I was typing.
Love to all our Vets
If you get a chance, check out the new All Quiet on the Western Front movie on Netflix. They did a really good job of it. Recommend watching it in English with subtitles. I watched the first half in English without subtitles and it was really hard to make out some of the dialogue. Adding subtitles really helped. It's crazy that these guys were killing each other right up till the last minute. Pay attention to how the people making the decisions are always clean and proper and seen eating elaborate meals or casually drinking wine and never in harm's way, while the troops are stuck in hell.
Very very few people today have any idea of the carnage that was WWI. Thanks to all of you vets , millons of your countrymen and women have lived our entire lives and more importantly raised our families in peace and freedom. That peace was bought with your service and we appreciate it and you!
WWI was, and always will be, unique in human history. Truly a horrific period of humanity. Civil War Era tactics fought with modern weaponry. The trenches were caused by failed massed frontal assaults that had been the standard combat maneuver for millennia. The first modern war. The world had never seen such carnage. The biggest battle of the Civil War, Gettysburg, had 50,000 total casualties. The Battle of the Somme had about 1.2M casualties. Staggering. I teach a class on some of this stuff.
After reading the Guns of August and seeing that every High Command in Europe had spent years going over the terrain where the next war would be fought. And all concurred it would not last over a few months.. I just wonder how we will survive now that we could be so wrong again, but now we have nuclear weapons?