tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post4422712092698273528..comments2023-08-02T07:07:45.500-07:00Comments on bastin: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post-62447110100974191722009-11-13T17:02:02.277-08:002009-11-13T17:02:02.277-08:00Beautiful post.
You said it like it is.Beautiful post.<br /><br />You said it like it is.Wolynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04428782184898610640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post-11942687757940093202009-11-11T20:28:00.797-08:002009-11-11T20:28:00.797-08:00I'm also a vet. Drafted in 1968 and served two...I'm also a vet. Drafted in 1968 and served two years. Trained as a radio operator, but ended up being the company clerk. Easy duty, but so what? I still served.<br /><br />I met people I still remember to this day. Often wonder what happened to them.<br /><br />Happy Veteran's Day to you - Crash too.Memphis MOJOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653631347560307425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post-82803075103953964662009-11-11T18:44:34.096-08:002009-11-11T18:44:34.096-08:00+1
and to your question, 'No, a hippy wordsmi...+1<br /><br />and to your question, 'No, a hippy wordsmith isn't someone i'd tag as having served.' <br /><br />Actually, i've been watching a fascinating doco in the Gallipoli landing which includes the Turks perspective. It had moments such as a Turk general seeing his troops running away from the beach when they ran out of ammo, to which he replied "Fix your bayonets and turn around. I'm ordering you not to fight but to die". To which they did. And yet the contract (non-serving) minesweepers when they came under fire quickly turned their boats around and said 'Um, i don't think so. Bye'.<br /><br /><br /><br />FGForrest Gumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06314271152182792365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3083330322113258405.post-66989325383348290372009-11-11T17:03:31.316-08:002009-11-11T17:03:31.316-08:00bastin - no such thing as a "lesser veteran&q...bastin - no such thing as a "lesser veteran"; you sacrificed your time for our country (which you can never get back) and you deserve the thanks and respect of those, like me, who have never served.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com