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VETERANS DAY FORUM

What does Veterans Day mean to you? On Veterans Day and all year long it is important to give thanks, honor & respect to the many brave men and women who have served our country. We welcome you to add your thoughts and comments about what Veterans Day means to you, about people who serve or have served in the U.S. Military, along with how you and your family honored the Holiday. Many of these posts will be shared on VetFriends.com and with television stations and newspapers. Thank you for your service.

A change in perspective

Frank Nordstrom, MO

I live within 3 hours of a major deployment base for military personal being shipped to Afganistan and Iraq. I have the opportunity to host a mulitude of friends on their last days in the states. It will always cherish those moments as my fmaily provides some laughter smiles and freindship as they prepare for their deployment. My perspective changed on how they think and what they deal with on a daily basis when my best freind was deployed in Afganistan and was upset becuase his meal time was disrupted by mortor attacks. It was so casual how he addressed it. I sitting back here was freaking out. His life perspective ws drastically different from what I experienced. I am greatful to him for showing me how comfortable I had become thinking what he was going through was comparable to things I have experienced. Shortly after this a freind came on the second to last day he was stateside. Knowing he would be home for the holidays, we had a full Thanksgiving dinner prepared for him, his wife, and their new baby. He told me how things hadnt been the easiest for him in the past couple of years and how life in the military had helped him own up to whom he should be. It came out that he had to sell a computer just to come out and visit since he was planning on his paycheck to cover the expenses of his new family. It felt so little to give to pay for his gas, get him some stuff for the baby, and some food for the trip home and have on his long flights which would bring him to war. I am so greatful for each these men. Thier choices to leave their families and little ones at home and fight for our country is not an uncommon story. It is one that should be apprieciated. Our personal experiences effect our thinking and how we view the world. Each of these men should me how much I have to learn about truly appreiciating the sacrafices they choose to make on a daily basis. Thank you to them and so many other people in my life and across this country that have choosen the same.

Viet Nam HD

Richard S. Jensen, Sr, PA

It is just recently that I am feeling comfortable about being a vietnam vet. This past summer I visited the Wall for the first time. Then for the last two nights I watched Viet Nam HD on the History channel. Last night I even got to watch it with m...

Veterans Day

John V. Kosek, Sr., OH

Veterans Day for me is usually a quiet day of reflection. I think back to my Navy days and all the wonderful people I met and worked alongside. I think about my uncles who were both in WWII and the sacrifices they made and the peril they faced. I am ...

USMC

Donald Haney, KY

Well I am proud to be called a Veteran I served my country 4 years active duty and 40 years I served my country as a civilian I would have give my life at anytime that I was called on to do so. I served in Vietnam War from 8/66-8/67 in The U.S. Mari...

Honoring Women who served

Cassaundra StJohn, TX

Veterans Day is our chance to remind the 98% of America that has never served....just what it means to be a military person. This is an opportunity to educate people on the role WOMEN play in serving this great nation, both in and beside the unifo...

Veterans Day

James M Massara, FL

To all Ive served with, [past and present Have a great Veterans Day!!!! Service before self is everything. My thoughts and prayers go out to our troops everyday.

Veterans Day

Rickey Williams, AR

My mother is the proud mother of 9 sons. We are from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. All nine of us served in the US Army between 1962-2005. We contributed over 150 years of service to our country. We ranged in rank from Specialist to Command Sergeant Major. 6...

What it means to me

Ron Wheeler, NC

I am a Viet-Nam vet and to me Veterans Day means that I think of all the friends I lost because of that damn war. But we were fighting for the greatest country of all but alot of people didnt feel that way. When I came back fromm Nam I got off a pl...

Veterans Day

David Mac Donald, OH

Bless Our VeteransI am a Army Veteran from the Vietnam War Era and I know how important a simple THANK YOU is. I am sending a THANK YOU to all of our Active Duty service members and Veterans for your sacrifice and commitment to this great country of ...

history

shadirelys, FL

Thank YouI would like to say thank you to all our veterans past and future. I believe we should thank you every day of the year not just on certain days.

Veterans Everywhere

Jeanne Dexter NALLY, FL

Veteran to AllAs a former member of the U.S. Army, I am most proud of the military history of my family. My father, U.S. Navy Retired WWII Veteran now deceased. My son John who served in the U.S. Army, during Desert Storm/Desert Shield. All of my Un...

Pelelieu 1944

Arnold Steele, CA

Semper FiOn September 15,1944 I was an FMF Corpsman aboard the USS Tryon as Marines went ashore on Peleliu to capture this fortified island from the entrenched Japanese. They captured the island but at a horrific cost in lives of our valiant Marines....

what veterans day mean to me

Mya Lafargue, LA

Veterans Day is a day of honor and joy !

Veteran Day

Bruce Bearss, OH

My sister Beuna lives in Hawaii and she called me to tell me about going to The Veterans Day Ceremony at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. One of the Speakers were Honorable Max Cleland, now Secretary American Battle Monuments Commission. ...

Edward J. Ryan/Anzio

Darby Stevens, WV

Every Veterans Day since my father, Edward J. Ryan died I have posted a somthing in his memory. He was a disabled veteran of Anzio, WWII. He was wounded in May, 1944 at the age of 17. He lost his left arm and most of his right hand and was at Walter...

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