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"Make this Holiday season one to remember by creating spectacular memories that you will cherish for a lifetime..."
and..........
"Well finally I came to resolution. I now place all my plastic bottles in the shower with me. That way they get rinsed, I don't waste water and I can recycle. The only down side is that it kind of puts a damper on urinating in the shower now... "
Priceless.
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Believer,
LMAO thinking the same thing from Pio's post...I can see it now...do you think it may be a LB for Gemela...
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Merry Christmas KiwiJ. I think of you often and wish you and Rob a warm and fuzzy Christmas season...I must admit I am jealous:)
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Merry Christmas All of TKO!
Been down with a stomach bug hoping I'll be better for Christmas dinner. It's at my house & food is not very attractive at the momnet, yikes!
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As we race toward Christmas, please remember that there are soldiers from many nations assembled on battlefields. There is no lonelier place at Christmas than a battlefield far from home.
If you are traveling and see men and women in military uniform at the airport coffee shop, train station vending machines, gas stations – and if you can afford it – step in and buy their lunch, sandwich, coffee or gas. The smile you receive will be worth much more than your nominal investment. If you are financially unable to help, extend your hand and a voice of “thank you”. The gleam in their eyes will stay with you forever. Military personnel make abundant sacrifices; all they really expect in return is appreciation from the very people whose freedoms they serve to protect.
Merry Christmas!
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Ahhh Todd, you old softy. Thanks for posting this. I've been blessed to work with these men and women, and always welcome them home, and buy a lunch. The last one was with his dad, and I bought lunch for both of them.
Okay, have to confess that the lunch was only $6.00 (hospital cafeteria), but was one of the best $6.00 I ever spent. Dad was so happy and proud and surprised, that there was a lump in my throat.
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God Bless all my friends on TKO
You all mean so much to me.
Merry Christmas
(((TKO)))
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Good idea Todd.
I live near an air force base, so I see soldiers all the time where I work. They really don't get the credit they deserve.
Merry Christmas. I hope it's wonderful for you all.
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Thanks Stef,
I was in the military during the Vietnam war and there was almost no support for troops. I remember flying into Chicago and taking a train home. On the train were tons of college students going home for the holidays. I went from car to car looking for a seat and in every car, the students made fun of me. It was very disconcerting. I am happy that most in our country support the troops regardless of how they feel about the war.
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Those were dark days Todd. Lovely job the media did there. Thank goodness it's changed.
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Thanks Stef,
I was in the military during the Vietnam war and there was almost no support for troops. I remember flying into Chicago and taking a train home. On the train were tons of college students going home for the holidays. I went from car to car looking for a seat and in every car, the students made fun of me. It was very disconcerting. I am happy that most in our country support the troops regardless of how they feel about the war. That's awful to hear Todd. I'm so sorry that happened to you. It kills me the lack of respect people have for one another...even today. People enlist in the military voluntarily knowing what can happen. They put their lives at risk EVERY DAY for our safety and freedom. They deserve the utmost respect, IMO. I hate that they don't always get it.
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Todd - I hope we have learned from Vietnam. I was against the war there, but supported the troops. However, I was just happy they were home. I think you are wrong in thinking that Americans didn't support the troops.
But we failed by not showing them. Won't do that again.
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Ironically, I was against the war as well. But I performed my duty. And the college kids on the train called me a "baby killer". Did not feel good to come home to that.
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Todd -
I'm so sorry that happened. I remember those times, with MaiLai, fighting an unwinable war. It was a national disgrace how our returning soldiers were treated. I think most Americans want to do better.
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I know Believer. That's what motivated me to post the bit about buying lunch for a soldier. It is a different time today. The wars we are fighting seem to be not popular but at least most Americans support the troops.
These men and women are our heroes. We can never forget that our country was built on the back of heroes.
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Believer, don't you remember. The Vietnam war veterans were the first and only vets to come home to complete antipathy.
It took a terrible toll. It's never happened since. People may be against a war now but they appreciate what the fighting forces do for them.
We were visited yesterday by a very old g/f of my sons. She is in the army and has only been on a couple of tours - she's mainly in trades. She was a very troubled girl when my son met her and she lived with us for a couple of years - probably the happiest couple of years of her life.
When she joined the army I was thrilled for her.
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I still maintain that most Americans supported the troops. I know because I protested against the war, out in the streets. I had people throw red paint (communist) at me and spit in my face.
The Vets came home and we failed them.
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My brother went to Vietmam. He was injured and came home with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He was also messed up just like you saw in the movies. I could not believe it. We grew up in the worst, meanest neighborhood you could imagine but the war still messed him up.
I visited him many years ago and found the Bronze Star and Purple Heart in the trash. I retrieved it and have been saving it for when he comes around. It has been well over thirty years and he still cannot talk about it.
The only thing he has ever said to me about the Vietnam War is that everybody hated him when he came home.
I hope our society learned the lessons those decades ago.
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B, of course I don't know what it was like in America. I only know what I saw on TV.
But that's what I mean, the vets were the first vets from a war to meet with total disregard and to be ignored. No one knew what the physcological toll would be and stil continues to be.
NZ was there but we weren't drafted like the Australians and everyone else. It was volunteer regular army that was there.
Weren't they dark days? I was 16 and then 17 and remember it so well.
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