18 Responses to “Thanks”

1. Kermit Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 9:50 am

   Grandpa Carl came over on the boat from Norway, and Wilson put him back on another boat and sent him to France. He was gassed in France and had anemia for the rest of his life.

   After the “War to End All Wars” he went back to the farm in Howard, S.D. His wife (my grandma) died from diabetes when Dad was 14, and the farm dried up in the dustbowl. There was also that Great Depression thing to cope with.

   He liked his Canadian whiskey and Copenhagen and he lived to age 84.

2. golfdoc50 Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 11:28 am

   Second the motion.

3. Dog Gone Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

   A more practical way to say thank you.
   http://www.serve.gov/vets.asp

4. Kermit Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 12:41 pm

   You should put a Not Safe For Work warning up on that link, Dog. The First Klingon nearly made me hurl.

5. swiftee Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

   Mitch, if you really want to thank the vets that read your blog, you’ll clean up the shit pile Dog just dropped in here.

   You’re welcome.

6. Lars Walker Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 12:57 pm

   Thanks for the freedom you bought with your blood, veterans. Sorry about the use we’ve made of it.

7. Scott Hughes Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 1:42 pm

   Kermit Says:”The First Klingon nearly made me hurl.”

   I wasn’t so fortunate!

   God Bless the Vets.

8. Dave Thul Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 3:01 pm

   Dog Gone-

   that’s the clearest definition of liberal thought I have recently seen. Your notion of a ‘practical’ way of thanking veterans is a multi billion dollar government agency to provide people with ways to thank veterans and their families.

   You don’t need the government’s help to simply find a veteran and say thank you. Mitch posted his thank you, companies like Applebee’s are giving a free meal to say thank you, and in Owatonna my VFW post spent the day visiting veterans in nursing homes to say thank you.

   If you need the federal government to help you find a veteran to say thank you to, then I don’t think you understand why we volunteered to serve in the first place.

9. swiftee Says:
   November 11th, 2010 at 3:33 pm

   Dave, I don’t know about you, but every time some lefty tool blurts out a “thank you vets” I want to hurl.

   These are the very same people that spit at us 40 years ago, and like everything else they do, their smug “thank-you” now is meant to gratify themselves.

10. Mitch Berg Says:
    November 11th, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    Swiftee,

    I do treat it on a case by case basis. I do know a number of libs, not least among ’em Penigma himself, who served.

    There is a post coming one of these days going after lefties who conflate “paying for veterans services” with “defense”. But that’s for another day.

    So anyway – among all the regulars here at SITD, thanks Swiftee, Pen, Flash’s son Tom, Nuke (longtime reader and friend of mine since ninth grade but very rare commenter), Marty Owings, Fingers (who I suppose technicallly isn’t quite a veteran yet, since he’s still in, but after 20-odd years who’s counting) and Dave Thul, and for that matter my mother’s husband.

11. Scott Hughes Says:
    November 11th, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    To all the vets, and those that have served, we proudly salute you! Today and every day.

12. swiftee Says:
    November 11th, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    Y’know Mitch, I don’t doubt that Peevee joined, but I’ll be damned if I can explain how he got *out*.

    See, before you can be discharged, you have to pass meental and physical examinations. The military makes mistakes alright, but I just don’t see how they could have missed the mental tsunami going on between peev’s ears 😉

13. Terry Says:
    November 11th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    My family has had a . . . mixed . . . history of serving in the Armed Forces.
    Both grandfathers served. Grandpa B. served during WWI. Not in, but during. He was waiting to go over on a troop ship when peace was declared. He was with Pershing in Mexico but he said the only action he saw was “liberating” a cart full of watermelons. He absolutely detested the Texas Rangers. He said the land owners used them as enforcers when the sharecroppers got restive. Grandpa B. later became a hard core socialist. He admired Castro and Brezhnev.
    Grandpa S. Was a twenty year man, an army non-com. He served through WW2 and Korea, but he never saw combat. He was a marksmanship instructor. He hated the Army. He got out a few times but went back in when the economy went bad or he got called up. He was never a socialist, but that side of the family has a strong Quakerish strain. I’ve always had a feeling that they favored the Tories in the Revolutionary War.
    My father was in the navy reserve back in the mid fifties. He didn’t like it, didn’t stay in a minute after his obligation was up, and he never talked about it.
    I had three siblings who joined the service. None of them liked it. One didn’t make it through boot camp.
    I tried to join the Guard when I was in my early 30’s, but they wouldn’t take me. Too beat up with badly healed broken bones.
    So I guess you all can draw two conclusions from this:
    1) If it was up to my family (both sides on these shores since at least the 1750’s) we’d be speaking french, or German, or drinking the Queen’s health.
    2) If you are ever under fire in a fox hole, and see me hunkered down there with you, you are in the deepest of doo-doo.

14. mnbubba Says:
    November 11th, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    Don’t know him personally, so can’t attest to it, but based on what he’s mentioned, I believe BossHoss429 also merits a tip o’the hat today

15. bosshoss429 Says:
    November 11th, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    Thanks, mnbubba and to all my fellow vets.

    I proudly served in the USAF, mostly in Mitch’s home state, in the lovely city of Grand Forks 😉 as a Crew Chief on B-52s. I made a side trip from June through November 1973 to Cam Ranh Bay, Republic of South Vietnam, then Guam and finally, Okinawa.

    Always remember this about veterans: All gave some. Some gave all!

16. fingers Says:
    November 12th, 2010 at 1:20 am

    Mitch,
    My younger brother is 10th Mountain, returned from Iraq last October and is now in Afghanistan.
    If you’ve got any extra prayers send one his way.
    I’ve tried to pass him whatever luck I had left over as all I’ll need it for is to avoid that pencil I keep trying to poke in my eye doing this staff job!
    thanks

17. bosshoss429 Says:
    November 12th, 2010 at 8:39 am

    fingers;

    Every night, when I hit my knees, I always pray for the safety of our men and women in uniform. It’s the least that I can do.

    Also, if you have a few spare dollars, consider donating to the Fisher House. They provide housing for families that need to be close to their wounded warrior while they are hospitalized. Look at it this way; every dollar that you donate is actually only worth about 50 cents, now that Oblahblah and his eceonomic illiterates have decided to turn on the printing presses, so, you can justify that you aren’t donating that much! 😉

18. fingers Says:
    November 12th, 2010 at 9:37 am

    Thanks Boss
    As a matter of fact I donate to the Fisher House almost every week!

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