Just a heads up......

Moosez45

Moosez45

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Contest winners and VIP pass getters (:D), I will be mailing some stuff out today, and some stuff out Tuesday. I have 3 knives ready to go out today.

Tradewater, your VIP passes will be with your knife.

Paperairplane, you knife will be shipped today.

Mist, your knife will ship today.

The rest of the winners will either ship on Sat. or Tuesday.

Thanks for the great contests guys and gals, ya'll done a helluva job, and should be be very proud of yourselves.

For the April Contest, I will have to poke the badger again, to get him to give us a winner.

For the May Contest, it will end on Tuesday.

We will be cleaning up the stickies soon, and I want to wish ya'll a great Memeorial Day Weekend. Find a serviceman or woman, buy'em a drink, buy'em dinner. Shake their hand, look'em in the eye, and say "Thank you". And mean it.

Moose
 
That will be great moose. We are damn sure looking forward to Atlanta. Thanks again.
 
Hearing how you call your soldiers servicemen, how you are proud of them, how you appreciate what they do for every one of you makes me sad. In Germany, soldiers are generally looked upon as trigger-happy weirdos who don't have any goals in life but to slaughter innocent people. The phrase "Soldaten sind Mörder" (Soldiers are murderers) is still very alive in our society. We still have mandatory Army service (theoretically, every man has to take basic training), but the mentality of most young people is "Oh god, I hope I get sorted out." Some even drink huge amounts of coffee or smoke weed before their examination, so they don't have to serve in the Bundeswehr for 9 months. I've often seen young soldiers commuting back to their barracks after a weekend home, many of them were insulted or harrassed in some way by mostly older people (who experienced WW2) or young punk-ass kids (who think they know everything). I try to step up for those people whenever I can.

When I was at the hospital, one of the doctors there was a young soldier who was about to deploy to Afghanistan as a combat medic, and I surprised him by shaking his hand and thanking him for the service. He said that I was the first person not involved with the armed forces to tell him something like this in his 2 1/2 years in the Army.

So I would like to thank every man and woman who has been, is currently or will go out there to fight and risk their life. Thank you for your commitment, and thank you to the families and friends who support them from back home. I'm waiting and hoping for the day when we won't need your service anymore, but it might never come.

Thank you.
 
Meat, that means alot. I'm not sure if the majority of people know what it means to a Soldier when someone thanks them. For a young Soldier, it's akward, you don't know what to say, or what to do, especially if you are fresh out of intitial training, because deep down you feel as if you haven't earned the gratitude. You have friends, leaders and peers who have been to battle, seen horrible things and you feel that you aren't on the same level as them. After talking this over with my father, he told me that what people are thanking me for isn't necessarily everything that I have been through, because there is no way they could know what that is, but rather they are thanking me for my decision. Deciding to join the Army or any other branch means that you love your country so much, you believe in Her so much, that you are willing to fight and die for Her. You chose to do what others would not or could not. As an older Soldier now, and having experienced battle closely, I can tell you that it means much more to me when someone thanks me for my service, and instead of saying thank you, I say its my pleasure, because it truly is. I love being able to serve my country.

Thank you all for being so kind and supportive, and thank you to the men and women of this forum who have fought before me and who are still fighting with me.

In the end, its not your country that you are fighting for, it is the men and women standing beside you, everday, and you are all fighting together to get back home.
 
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Very well put jarodmichael.

Thanks for being over there.

Yeah I'm not good with words when it comes to things like this so I'll just leave it as saying thank you. :thumbup:
 
jarodmichael said:
Meat, that means alot. I'm not sure if the majority of people know what it means to a Soldier when someone thanks them. For a young Soldier, it's akward, you don't know what to say, or what to do, especially if you are fresh out of intitial training, because deep down you feel as if you haven't earned the gratitude. You have friends, leaders and peers who have been to battle, seen horrible things and you feel that you aren't on the same level as them. After talking this over with my father, he told me that what people are thanking me for isn't necessarily everything that I have been through, because there is no way they could know what that is, but rather they are thanking me for my decision. Deciding to join the Army or any other branch means that you love your country so much, you believe in Her so much, that you are willing to fight and die for Her. You chose to do what others would not or could not. As an older Soldier now, and having experienced battle closely, I can tell you that it means much more to me when someone thanks me for my service, and instead of saying thank you, I say its my pleasure, because it truly is. I love being able to serve my country.

Thank you all for being so kind and supportive, and thank you to the men and women of this forum who have fought before me and who are still fighting with me.

In the end, its not your country that you are fighting for, it is the men and women standing beside you, everday, and you are all fighting together to get back home.
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Your dad has it right. You've earned the gratitude and more the moment you sign on and you have earned it whether or not you ever get deployed or hear a shot fired in anger.

Thank you!


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6 VIP Passes and 3 knives, are in the hands of the USPS. Ya'll lemme know when they get there, and put up some reviews of the knives. Some of them may look slightly used, and I just want to say, I have nothing to say on the matter. :D

Naw, they are factory fresh, and ready to serve. Lemme know how they do.

Moose
 
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