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You're welcome!
This is just a note to a few people on here who recently have responded to a couple of my posts by thanking me for serving my country in the United States Marines. I was always taught to say "You're welcome" to someone who said "Thank you". I feel like I neglected to properly respond to those who thanked me. I am posting this as a encompassing "You're welcome" to those who were nice enough to say "Thank you" to me recently and to anyone who would say the same in the future. I was genuinely glad to serve. I volunteered during the draft even though my number was much too high to place me in the line of the draft and I enjoyed every minute of my "peacetime" service. I traveled and saw things that a little old country boy could only read about in novels and magazines. I enjoyed the company of buddies that no friendship before or since has ever come close to comparing to. I worked on jets and saw an airshow every day for over five years consisting of every aircraft that flew in the 70's. I met my wife in a faraway place called Virginia Beach. We rode our Harleys and got drunk and crashed and had a good ole time. We werehitched by an invalid named Bernie who couldn't walk. My wife busted out laughing when she looked up and I still had on my aviator's glasses that I rode with day and night. When he came to the part about the ring he asked if we had one and we said "No" and he said "Well, we'll just skip that part". I've still got the jeans that I wore everyday with the patches on them even though I have no hope of ever wearing them again. I was wearing an American flag shirt that I had bought in the Phillipines on Magsaysay Boulevard. My son wore it to school on "70's Hippie Day".
I guess I am saying that the pleasure was all mine and I would do it all over again the same way.
God Bless America.
I guess I am saying that the pleasure was all mine and I would do it all over again the same way.
God Bless America.
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08-14-2007, 09:52 PM
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Sounds like you got some great stories. It's guys like you and your selflessness that make this country great. I wasn't one of the guys who said it earlier, but I will say it now. Thank you for my freedom and your sacrific.
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08-14-2007, 10:20 PM
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First, thanks for your service to our country!
Secondly.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6c3emqC6aw OH YEAH!
Secondly.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6c3emqC6aw OH YEAH!
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08-15-2007, 02:20 AM
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RE: You're welcome!
ORIGINAL: tbone52
This is just a note to a few people on here who recently have responded to a couple of my posts by thanking me for serving my country in the United States Marines. I was always taught to say "You're welcome" to someone who said "Thank you". I feel like I neglected to properly respond to those who thanked me. I am posting this as a encompassing "You're welcome" to those who were nice enough to say "Thank you" to me recently and to anyone who would say the same in the future. I was genuinely glad to serve. I volunteered during the draft even though my number was much too high to place me in the line of the draft and I enjoyed every minute of my "peacetime" service. I traveled and saw things that a little old country boy could only read about in novels and magazines. I enjoyed the company of buddies that no friendship before or since has ever come close to comparing to. I worked on jets and saw an airshow every day for over five years consisting of every aircraft that flew in the 70's. I met my wife in a faraway place called Virginia Beach. We rode our Harleys and got drunk and crashed and had a good ole time. We werehitched by an invalid named Bernie who couldn't walk. My wife busted out laughing when she looked up and I still had on my aviator's glasses that I rode with day and night. When he came to the part about the ring he asked if we had one and we said "No" and he said "Well, we'll just skip that part". I've still got the jeans that I wore everyday with the patches on them even though I have no hope of ever wearing them again. I was wearing an American flag shirt that I had bought in the Phillipines on Magsaysay Boulevard. My son wore it to school on "70's Hippie Day".
I guess I am saying that the pleasure was all mine and I would do it all over again the same way.
God Bless America.
This is just a note to a few people on here who recently have responded to a couple of my posts by thanking me for serving my country in the United States Marines. I was always taught to say "You're welcome" to someone who said "Thank you". I feel like I neglected to properly respond to those who thanked me. I am posting this as a encompassing "You're welcome" to those who were nice enough to say "Thank you" to me recently and to anyone who would say the same in the future. I was genuinely glad to serve. I volunteered during the draft even though my number was much too high to place me in the line of the draft and I enjoyed every minute of my "peacetime" service. I traveled and saw things that a little old country boy could only read about in novels and magazines. I enjoyed the company of buddies that no friendship before or since has ever come close to comparing to. I worked on jets and saw an airshow every day for over five years consisting of every aircraft that flew in the 70's. I met my wife in a faraway place called Virginia Beach. We rode our Harleys and got drunk and crashed and had a good ole time. We werehitched by an invalid named Bernie who couldn't walk. My wife busted out laughing when she looked up and I still had on my aviator's glasses that I rode with day and night. When he came to the part about the ring he asked if we had one and we said "No" and he said "Well, we'll just skip that part". I've still got the jeans that I wore everyday with the patches on them even though I have no hope of ever wearing them again. I was wearing an American flag shirt that I had bought in the Phillipines on Magsaysay Boulevard. My son wore it to school on "70's Hippie Day".
I guess I am saying that the pleasure was all mine and I would do it all over again the same way.
God Bless America.
And Ive been to Magsaysay blvd. But I didnt buy a shirt
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08-15-2007, 02:18 PM
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RE: You're welcome!
ORIGINAL: Kolni
Can you get me some MarPat BDU's?
Can you get me some MarPat BDU's?
Nope. All we wore wore was O.D. green right up until just before I got out and then we got some M81 woodland camouflage pattern BDU's. Mostly I wore O.D. green coveralls and steel toe safety shoes issued to squadron crews working on jets. I wore blue jean cutoffs and a white t-shirt under the coveralls all summer.
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ORIGINAL: celtlion
First, thanks for your service to our country!
Secondly.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6c3emqC6aw OH YEAH!
First, thanks for your service to our country!
Secondly.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6c3emqC6aw OH YEAH!
Thanks for the song. I enjoyed it.
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