Comments on: Happy Veterans Day…With Gratitude

By: gunnlino

gunnlino — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:10 +0000

Why do the heaters always have to bring stuff in that should be discussed in another arena ?
A wonderful and heartfelt post twisted and spun by the heaters with their tunnel vision agenda.

By: Sure Fire

Sure Fire — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:31:29 +0000

Nice play Robbie, but they probably are just what the cops label them as.

Your stupidity is astounding, excuse the countless murders by gang members of small children and innocent bystanders because they returned a wallet. Oh yeah, you definitely are a con lover. Go visit Reg, probably have plenty living around him, Oakland is like Pomona, full of gangsters and parolees.

You’ll find your soul mate.

Real nice play.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:13:58 +0000

Celeste, with history repeating itself and warfare being what it is, there's someone out there who has similar experiences to your uncle, if you want to seek them out and learn more about what your uncle experienced and to help those living veterans feel appreciated and to help them relive some of their youth. You'll find a lot of great stories at a V.A. Nursing Home.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:01:35 +0000

I just added to the post a thank you to my uncle George Armstrong, whom I would call every year on this date, right up until the year he died. I miss him with particular intensity on this day.

I wish I had grasped what he had been through earlier in both of our lives so we could have talked about it.

By: RobThomas

RobThomas — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:26:14 +0000

Everybody’s going to find that story about the gang members touching except for the local police, who’ve probably spent the better part of the past decade labeling that gang as a group of terrorists with no compassion toward humanity whatsoever. How are they going to spin this? Rest assured, they will.

By: RobThomas

RobThomas — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:22:44 +0000

I want to thank George W. Bush for making us safer…

OK, all jokes aside….

Thank you to my grandfather for fighting in WW2 and my father for fighting in Vietnam, although my father denounces everything he did over there in the name of a fascist government which forced him to fight under the threat of imprisonment. Whatever. Stupid hippie. Anyhow, love ya, gramps. A WW2 veteran who loved his family, loved his country, and fucking hated Republicans. God bless his soul!

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:16:43 +0000

To try again, this is the link that I tried to provide earlier: LINK

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Local Links to Veterans' Stories on Sunroom Desk | Sunroom Desk — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:42 +0000

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By: Jeff Levine

Jeff Levine — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:55:55 +0000

I just want to thank my Dad and his generation for their sacrifices in the name of defeating the horrorific tyrants of WW II.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:25:46 +0000

Thank you, muggers, um….we think.

Woody, great story but that Boston Globe link doesn’t seem to work.

Here it is from NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120300346
and from the AP http://www.pnj.com/article/20091111/NEWS03/91111005