Vietnam Veterans Day

[crazyjim]

Happy Vietnam Veterans Day to my Brothes & Sisters who also served.  WELCOME HOME!

[Snake45]

Thank You for your service, Jim and other Vietnam Vets.

[crazyjim]

Thank you Snake.

[bamadon]

I was not aware of this. Thank you for letting me know and thank you for your service.

[Jim N]

2 hours ago, bamadon said:

I was not aware of this. Thank you for letting me know and thank you for your service.

Agreed.

[slusher]

Thank you Jim for your service and all Vietnam Veterans!

[High octane]

I was not aware of this either, otherwise I would've flown the flag today. I thank the Vietnam Veterans and those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

[crazyjim]

Why not fly Old Glory everyday?

[HomerS]

The Vietnam War Traveling Wall came through the Cincinnati area last year.  Second time I've seen it and I got to take my youngest (10yr old) to see it as he is getting of the age that he can understand its significance.  Inside the union hall, a vet had a collection of artifacts that he has amassed through the years of various wars.  He does this so people can feel what it was like for these heroes to wear this and carry the gun/ammo versus locking it up in a museum.  This is Garrett as that young soldier.  He had a much greater appreciation for DOING this versus just reading about it.  (It was July 4th weekend so he understood how the heat took its toll as well).

My oldest (20yr old) and his girlfriend spent the night the first night as security for the memorial wall.  My father (a 7.5 year veteran of the Air Force/deployed to Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall) had just passed six weeks earlier.  He did this as a tribute.  Just when you can't be more proud of your kids, he goes and does this and I never knew about it until days later.

Thank you Vietnam Vets and all the vets for putting their butts on the line for all of us!!

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[PARTSMARTY]

Always appreciated and i never forget-thank you.

[thatz4u]

22 hours ago, crazyjim said:

Happy Vietnam Veterans Day to my Brothes & Sisters who also served.  WELCOME HOME!

Thanks Jim,  Welcome home to you also...

[Classicgas]

On 3/29/2018 at 1:27 PM, Jim N said:

Agreed.

 

On 3/29/2018 at 5:38 PM, crazyjim said:

Why not fly Old Glory everyday?

Ditto. Was not aware there was a special day set aside for Vietnam vets. I salute them. They are the only vets I know of so disrespected.

[Ace-Garageguy]

12 hours ago, Classicgas said:

 

Ditto. Was not aware there was a special day set aside for Vietnam vets. I salute them. They are the only vets I know of so disrespected.

Shouldn't have to worry about the returning vets from the next conflict being disrespected. There won't be anyone to go anyway.

http://time.com/2938158/youth-fail-to-qualify-military-service/

Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service

 

[Classicgas]

Not too surprising. It may well be the next conflict will be fought by ai and drone technology.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Classicgas said:

...It may well be the next conflict will be fought by ai and drone technology.

One can only hope that true AI will be too smart to have to resort to war between differing nodes of itself.

Can't you just imagine armies of robots slugging it out because they each thought THEIR programmers were better, or because one group believed they were developed from typewriters, and the other group were certain THEY were developed from adding machines, and a third group believed they sprung forth fully formed from the mind of Alan Turing?

Nah.

[Classicgas]

Ai learns on its own from its mistakes. There were two ai that started communicating in a language they made up. They had to be shut down. I think it was ai robot Sophy that was asked what Ali's goal was. World dominance was the answer.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Classicgas said:

Ai learns on its own from its mistakes.

What a shame that so few humans do.

[Classicgas]

22 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

What a shame that so few humans do.

Very true .

[Johnt671]

Thanks for posting this and welcome home to all vets. Here's a picture I took in Rumor Valley near Cobb bridge.

 

 

[Agent G]

USMC, BLT 3/4 at the bitter end. I didn't have a camera so all pics are from the web. 

I was about ten feet behind the photographer.

These were guys from another squad.

Set a perimeter around this bird.

 

Back parking lot of the US Embassy in Saigon. Can't swear to it but I may be the one standing alone in the background to the left.

 

G

[rel14]

Thank you, and all my brothers who served, and are still serving,  God bless all of you.   And God Bless all them who never made it home. My you rest in Peace.