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Originally Posted by Profpat  Thank you Drifter for your service to your country during the Vietnam War.
A hearty salute to you sir,
Pat |
Thank You Sir...
This is the third time this week and in total for the past 40 years anyone has ever said so...
I am humbly honored to have offered my life for my country and thankful I still have both arms and legs and a somewhat unscathed mind as a result of it...many of 'my brothers' were not so fortunate as I...
I am truly blessed Sir...Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
'Semper Fi' Professor, in Their Honor . . .(though they knew not why they did what they did...they 'voluteered')...neither of the men on either side really won anything imho but they both lost alot...in ways unimaginable...
Gone but not Forgotten . . .
Hindsight is always 20/20 . . .Empires are built upon The Sacrificial Valor, of both sides . . .
I Am Truly Honored By Them . . . The One's Who Paid The Ultimate Price . . . In My Stead . . . Standing For Me, In My Leave . . .To Those Fallen Comrades, on both sides, I Honor A Salute . . . and from the madness, A Moment of Silence on Their Behalf . . . Namaste`, My Spiritual Brothers... 
"Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: ``To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods?" Drifter