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  3. Those two simple words in that video, “Thank You”, Bruce do mean a lot to our veterans and their families. I taught my sons that lesson this summer when we happened to be in a Culver’s ahead of 4 NatGuardArmy soldiers and went ahead and bought them their lunch, shook hands and said Thanks. You’d think we’d have given them a $1m bucks; simple Thank You and a small, small gesture. We’ve done it before… I wish others would do it more often, on a personal level… citizen to soldier.

    Unfortunately, with the election of Obama/Biden, I think those veterans and military personnel are going to see less of that, less honor for their service, less empathy for their sacrafice… and we need look no farther this week than uber-liberal, fellow-leftie, anti-military Phil Donahue and his wing of the Democrat Party for what’s likely in store… it’ll begin with trumpeting the failures of America, the horrific impact of war on 1-2 soldiers and then lead to indicting the soldiers and brass who prosecuted the WOT.

    We’ll be transported back to the post-VietNam days and guys like Bill Ayers and Phil Donahue will be high-fiving the Commander in Chief and Jane Fonda will be sacked out in the Lincoln bedroom. It’s a topsy-turvey world.

  4. Despite our new president elect, we as citizens must continue to show our thanks and appreciation to our fighting men and women.
    We owe them so much, the choose to serve us the people, not the president. Though I am sure we will see a drop in enlistment and reenlistment in the next four years.

  5. I went to Normandy in November 1993 on a very cold, windy day. I visited the American cemetery and went to Point du Hoc. Almost, no one else was there. At the American cemetery I was able to talk to the person responsible for United States planning the 50th anniversary for about 30 to 40 minutes. The French people in the area loved the American people and were unabashed in showing it.

  6. I have a childhood friend who went to West Point during the Vietnam era. After he retired he was paralyzed from the neck down. He has been that way now for around ten years. He can’t even swallow his own saliva…………..but, he remains the great person that he has always been.

  7. I don’t have much exposure to people who’ve been in the military other than a few folks at work.

    I remember going to DC some years ago and visiting the Vietnam Memorial. I’d seen pictures of it (ho-hum) but seeing it up close – thousands of names – realizing that every one of the names represented someone who’d died in service to this country – took my breath away. I honestly got weak in the knees and had to go sit down… and have a good cry.

    I certainly question the decisions our leaders make sometimes but I’ve never doubted the nobility of our service men and women (with remarkably few exceptions).

    Saying “thank you for your service” seems so inadequate.

  8. Saying “thank you for your service” seems so inadequate.

    Boy, are you ever right, Robert. So trite.

    Leah reminds me of NBC’s filming of the 50th Anniversary of Point du Hoc and D-Day. The French do this kind of thing so well. Even Chirac was wonderful and reminded everyone that France will never forget what Americans did for them and for Europe. During the presentation, Tom Brokaw interviewed two Frenchwomen who spoke about what they endured, how they swam into swamps to retrieve paratroopers who had flown in and how they guided them to their farm, fed and clothed them. They used the silk parachutes for their wedding dresses. Communicating with the Amerian soldiers was difficult due to language, but they taught each other songs and one began to sing “It’s A Long Way To Tipperary”, a point at which I began to cry.

    That’s the power of the media, for better and for worse.