Veterans Role Call

[HuskyNan]

Many, many thanks to the people who are serving or who have served our country. Stand up and be counted.

 

[uconnfan68]

Many, many thanks to the people who are serving or who have served our country. Stand up and be counted.

USN, 1970-74, 1975-79.

 

[Husky68]

US Army 1969-71; Vietnam 2nd 327th 101st Airborne - No Slack

 

[UConn4ever]

USMC
2005-2009
3rd Battlion 5th Marines
Camp Pendelton, CA

 

[uconnflyer88]

USN
2008 - present
HSC-21/2515th Naval Air Ambulance Detachment
San Diego, CA

 

[Chin Diesel]

USN 1993-Present.

F-35 Fleet Integration Team. Eglin AFB Ft Walton Beach, Fl.

 

[gars44]

Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA, then to US Army Field Station Augsberg, Germany, 1977-1981. Also, some tough duty at the Armed Forces Recreation Center, Garmisch. I was a Big P_ssy. Country club the whole time!

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Not a veteran, just wanted to say a big thank you to all.

 

[DrDos]

United States Navy, 1968-1972, USS william V. Pratt (DLG-13), Submarine Base Groton

 

[Third and one]

USAF C-141A-B Flying Crew Chief 1981-89
Hated when those Army paratroopers puked on my plane on the way out the door!

 

[UConndad6]

US Air Force, active duty, Jan 1979-Dec 2000.

 

[HuskyBarker]

US Air Force > CT ANG 1982 - 1985. Was Full time. Got out after got injured.

 

[FillTheRent]

US Army, 2008-present

 

[RedStickHusky]

USAF 1977-1997; Gars44, looks like we were in Monterey at the same time.

 

[pnl1957]

Thanks to all that have served to protect us

 

[ZooCougar]

US Army 1997-present.

 

[TheRogers]

On behalf of my family, thank you.

 

[gars44]

USAF 1977-1997; Gars44, looks like we were in Monterey at the same time.

Wow. Yeah, I was there 77-79. Then on to Deutschland (sp), where I got to listen to Russians driving around in their tanks in East Germany. Good times!!

 

[SAMCRO]

Wow. Yeah, I was there 77-79. Then on to Deutschland (sp), where I got to listen to Russians driving around in their tanks in East Germany. Good times!!

My brother was in Germany around the same time, early 80's, on border patrol. I'll have to ask him where exactly he wAs there for a few years, then states side for a stretch, then off to Kuwait, states side for a little while, then off to Bosnia, then back home for a few years, then back to Iraq. He's retired now.

I have the deepest appreciation and respect for those who have (or still are) served (serving) our country.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I thank all of our veterans and I thank all of those who are still in active duty!

 

[uconndogs]

Not a vet.

Thank you all for your service to our Country.

 

[HooHusky]

US Navy Nuke (EM), 1970-76, USS California & USS Virginia.

 

[FAIRTIDES]

Many, many thanks to the people who are serving or who have served our country. Stand up and be counted.

This is probably more suited to Memorial Day than Veterans Day. But, it will ring true for those who got spit on, and worse, in US Airports and those who wish to remember the noble, mostly kid, hero's that never got the chance to become veterans.

If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
~Major Michael Davis O'Donnell (MIA, 1972)
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

 

[HuskyNan]

This is probably more suited to Memorial Day than Veterans Day.

Maybe so, but I feel we can't thank our men and women in the service - and their families - enough.

 

[Baltic]

US Army 1966-1969 - 7th Army Support Command, Boeblingen, Germany