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This is a thank you thread, not a debate thread or a thread to criticise soldiers or the regimes they fight for. If you do not heed this warning retribution will be swift and without mercy! | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On May 31 2011 03:28 hemipepsis5p wrote: You say "Cheers to the few soldiers who 'do it right', (sic) it's unfortunate that many don't." I say cheers to the soldiers of the free world who always have to eradicate ignorance at the end of a rifle! Yeah, I don't think they actually do that... | ||
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GoShox
United States1845 Posts
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
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ZeromuS
Canada13408 Posts
On May 31 2011 05:20 bonifaceviii wrote: Being in the armed forces is a shitty job, but someone's got to do it. I'm thankful someone else is doing it so I have the freedom not to. Yeah thats my perspective. Regardless of how I feel about war(s) I understand that when put into a situation where there is a war I am thankful for those who volunteer to be in the armed forces so I don't have to be. | ||
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Zhou
United States832 Posts
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
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relyt
United States1073 Posts
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
They get paid a fortune. Just saying. Other than having most expenses paid which is fair your regular soldier doesn't make much money. Dunno where you get the idea they do. | ||
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SpiZz
112 Posts
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FungiBass
Chile13 Posts
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AttackZerg
United States7579 Posts
and thank you and thank you and thanks again. Life is priceless and giving yours so that others may live a life like the one my son and I enjoy is greater than anything I will ever do. I wish the mongers of the world spent your lives with more care. | ||
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Virtue
United States318 Posts
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UndercoverNerd
88 Posts
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TheFrankOne
United States667 Posts
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FT.aCt)Sony
United States1048 Posts
On May 31 2011 04:32 Khaymus wrote: From someone in the Air Force, thanks for all of the support. <3 I was bought countless drinks over the weekend from complete strangers because I mentioned I was out celebrating one of my last weekends home before deployment. USA is great about making the armed forces feel supported and appreciated. Whats your AFSC? <- 1C751 Airfield Operations | ||
DivinO
United States4796 Posts
And you too, sYz-Adrenaline.  | ||
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abominare
United States1216 Posts
On May 31 2011 02:10 NIJ wrote: and thank you for thanking me. all i really did in the sandbox was sit on a box of MREs while I played my gameboy advance. But I sure did guard that box of MREs well. thanks to those who went out and did stuff while i sat on a box of MREs. Taken from General Patton's Speech to the Sixth Army "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn't like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly bastard could say, "Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands". But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the hell would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like? No, Goddamnit, Americans don't think like that. Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important in the vast scheme of this war. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the 'G.I. Shits'." " One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, "Fixing the wire, Sir". I asked, "Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?" He answered, "Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed". I asked, "Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?" And he answered, "No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!" Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds. And you should have seen those trucks on the road to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts. Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren't combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable." Guarding MRE's may not have been glorious but don't let it downplay that you served in wartime for this country | ||
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frontliner2
Netherlands844 Posts
To the soldiers who've fallen my greatest respect. I just wish we (The West) never invaded Iraq and Afghanistan but that is just my opinion. Most importantly thank you for freeing Western Europe from the Nazi's and preventing Soviet's from enforcing their rule on Western Europe. | ||
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sicarii
United States93 Posts
On May 31 2011 02:32 Jokithedruid wrote: I dont really get the fuzz about honouring soldiers, someone care to explain how you can make a better world with violence? Sometimes violence must be responded to with violence, denying that is naive and immature. So thank you heroes for answering the call. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
 But if this is a soldier day then it is for all, even the ones on the "other side" Maybe all the soldiers should stop on this day and ask themselves why are they killing and trying to get killed?! | ||
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