Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all forum members who have served!
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I will be playing Taps outside in a short while, on the 11th month, 11th day, 11th hour, 11th minute.
Many of my trumpet colleagues will doing the same. If you go outside you may hear one of us. We stop what we are doing and play wherever we are at the time.
Please join us, no matter what instrument you play.
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Thank you! I served in the U.S. Navy from '81-'85. I was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60), which has since been retired.
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Thank you for your service @McRican and @moburns92 !
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Thanks Elk…it was an honor to serve in the world’s finest Navy. 
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You may of been on there with my cousin. Thank you for your service!
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Thank you for your service!
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Indeed. Thank you, sirs.
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Today is also the one hundred anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
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Thank you for all that have served.
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I may have been. An aircraft carrier is basically a floating city. I probably served with 10,000+ men over the years I was there. People are always coming and going. Just like a city, there is no way to know everyone.
Ironically, I met someone one time and he told me his stepfather also served on my ship around the time I was there. I asked him what his stepfather’s name was and it turned out that not only did he work in my Division, but he actually sat at the desk next to mine for about year. Talk about a small world!
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Happy Veterans Day to my fellow vets! Thank you for service!
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Here here! Our company goes out of its’ way to recruit and hire our Veterans as a token of appreciation for their service. Veterans Day is special for all of us. Honor, selflessness, integrity, skill … we value everything they bring to what we do.
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A story about my dad for Veteran’s Day which some may find of interest:
Shortly after D-Day, Normandy, France
101st Airborne Division 502nd Company
Patrick J .Callery, medic:
The 502nd were under heavy fire trying to clear Causeway #4 on Cotenin Peninsula leading into Carentan. Despite being told by his commanding officer to wait until dark when it would be safer, my father found a horse, hitched it to an open wagon and for the rest of the day, exposed many times to enemy fire, drove up & down the Normandy Roads bringing in wounded & jump-injured Paratroopers. Once that afternoon he jumped off to pull someone into the wagon & machine gunfire fanned across the seat he had just occupied.
50+ years later:
Each winter my father traveled to Florida for the 101st Airborne Reunion. In 2001 he noticed some of the guys wearing 101st Airborne baseball caps & wanted to buy one. At the table where they were sold he was told they were gone. When he asked if he could leave his name, address & a check for the hat plus postage and have it mailed to him the man at the table said he didn’t usually do that, but reluctantly agreed. About a month later my father received a box. In the box was the hat. On top of the hat was his un-canceled check & a note which read, “I was one of those guys you picked up on that Causeway”
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Great story. Awesome thing to be so proud of your dad!
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Thank you for sharing your Father’s story… He and his generation were cut from a very special fabric, and their selfless service literally laid the foundation for the world we have today.
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