Thanks Mom

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Sylvrfalcn

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On this day of honoring America's brave men and women in uniform, I'd like to thank an overlooked veteran. I'm a veteran from a family of veterans, my father, three brothers, and I, all career NCOs. From the Berlin Airlift to Desert Storm, Somalia, and Afghanistan, one or more of us was there. Through all that time mom was the glue that held the family together. She endured the constant moving and leaving friends behind, starting over in strange places where she knew no one. She was the one who dealt with the doctors, teachers, and landlords. She who streched every penny to make ends meet. When there was not enough food on the table to go around, she was the one who "wasn't hungry". When we all got new school clothes we were too little to notice how she'd make her old clothes make do for another year.

More than once she's sent her sons to war, her words of love, encouragement, and pride, valiantly concealing her worries and fears.
She never wore a uniform, never carried a gun, but you can bet she knows all about service and sacrifice. Thanks Mom, and thanks to all the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands, and sweethearts, and yes indeed Uncles, without whose support there would be no veterans to thank today. We in the military might project our country's power around the globe, but we know where America's true strength lies.

Sarge
 
Well put. As I have explained to all this tribe around here; the word "Freedom" is a 'stained' word........no matter what color it looks like to you on the printed page, it is forever stained red with the blood of those before us who were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice to insure we remain able to live in a free country. May we never take it for granted.
 
My Mom used to tell me when I was a bad boy, "Someday you'll miss your old gray haired mother when she's gone." As usual she was right.

I'll certainly drink to all of the above but not until 4 or 5 PM.
 
I'll thank my Mom for Veteran's Day, too. She wasn't a WAVE or a WAC, but she served 18 months in the Civil Service during WWII repairing aircraft radios at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii. She could strip, clean and reassemble the complex, mechanical tuner from a B-17 set faster than anyone else in her class :D Yay Mom!
 
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