To All Veterans

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I may not be supposed to post such a thread as this on this forum, but I will anyway!
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I just want to say THANK YOU to all the veterans who have sacrificed so much in times past so that we can all have the freedoms we hold so dear.

Without your unselfish sacrifice, not one of us here would have the freedom to make and sell the fine knives we do.

I for one am deeply in your debt.

Thank You!




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Craig Blankenship
Blankenship Knives
http://www.blankenship-knives.com
 
I gotta agree on this one. We all owe a great deal of gratitude to all those who served to keep our country the Great Country it is.

Marcel
 
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Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms!!!
 
I move that such a post is always appropriate, no matter what the topic of hte forum is. Do I hear a second for my motion?

I am always proud to be the son of a veteran, and would not hesitate to volunteer if there was ever a need. What are so often referred to as rights are really privledges, purchased at a very dear price, indeed.

--JB

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e_utopia@hotmail.com
 
I'm retired military, 20 years in the US Marine Corps and the US Army, and I for one appreciate your post Craig. Thanks
Tom
 
I appreciate your post also, having spent a little over 20 years in the U.S. Army.
Thanks.
 
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers on this solemn and important day.
The tomb of the Unknown Soldier was consecrated today in Ottawa, Canada where the remains of a First World War Canadian soldier was finally laid to rest in his native soil after being temporarily interned in the soil of France for the last 80 years. We welcome our Fallen Brother in Arms as we welcome all who have gone to the final resting place for those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.

Dileas Gu Brath
 
I too appreciate your post having spent a little over six years (1963-69) in the U.S. Marine Corps. And I echo your thanks to all the men and women who came after me and the ones currently on duty risking their lives for our freedoms. God willing the tradition will continue for a few hundred more years.

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Gary Bradburn
Bradburn Custom Cutlery
www.toptexknives.com/bradburn.htm

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other mans freedom. You can only be free if I am"
 
I work at The USS Yorktown (The Fighting Lady)in Mt.Pleasant S.C. it is an WW II aircraft carrier that saw a lot of action . It is now a museum along with the USS Laffey (The ship that woudn't die). I see the people everyday who fought in battle so that we are free today. I never forget to tell them "Thank You". To all of the veterans and all of the men on this forum who served our country I THANK YOU

Bobby Branton
 
i would like to thank all the veterans too. i have a couple relatives that are veterans. i'm sure they're glad that you all appriciate what they've done for they're country.
 
Originally posted by Knifeslinger:
I work at The USS Yorktown (The Fighting Lady)in Mt.Pleasant S.C. it is an WW II aircraft carrier that saw a lot of action .

Bobby Branton
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Knifeslinger,

What else can you tell me about the Lady? When I was in the Navy in the early 70s, I thought it was the Fighting Lady that was in drydock in Bayonne NJ. Back then they said gillette bought her and she was going to be made into razorblades. We used to go over there and scrounge vacuum tubes to keep our sonar running. Could it have been the same Lady?



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Hoodoo

The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone—the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

Walt Whitman
 
That is where she came from. She came to Charleston in 1975. Saved by the state of S.C. I'll send you a personal e mail with our web site.

Bobby Branton

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AKTI member #1000
President South Carolina Association of Knifemakers
President American Knife Throwers Alliance

http://www.brantonknives.com
 
Thanks, I appreciate what everyone who served has done for us. War isn't a fun prospect and military life isn't something everyone could handle. Even if you didn't join by choice you did what you had to do to make things better for everyone else. Its to bad that people don't take as much time to think about the people that serve our country anymore.

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It'll feel better when it stops hurting.
 
Bobby,

Great news about the Lady! For a minute there I thought I was losing it. I'd been on that ship several times swiping stuff for our old tin can. There were only three navy ships that docked at that pier in Bayonne, our destroyer, a navy cargo ship and the Lady. I got out in 1973 and she was sitting there then.

Thanks for the link.

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Hoodoo

The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone—the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

Walt Whitman
 
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