To All Our Vets...

[Catfish]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/eEs4ke7cdNQ?feature=player_detailpage%

Absolutely beautiful tribute! 21 Gun Salute...

 

[bustedwing]

I hope a few political big wigs see this and appreciate the lowly little warrior that protects our great nation but gets little respect!!

 

[peteg59]

 

[bustedwing]

HAHAHA- LOL, I love it!

 

[Delf]

As a retired Navy pilot, I have seen several "Kilroy was here" sketches in various places when I was in the service. I never knew who he actually was until this post, thanks! In fact, I have drawn a few on hotel bathroom steamed mirrors. If the maid didn't wipe the mirror, the next patron would be surprised with the sketch after showering. I've always wondered what they thought.
As a bit of humor, if you turn the image upside down, it then becomes "Senator Craig was here". This is a result of his "toe tapping" incident with a plain clothes police officer in the Minneapolis airport bathroom stall. Needless to say, it cost him his senate seat!

 

[clint44]

My dad was a B29 bombardier in the Army Air Corp, told me the story years ago but had forgotten most of it. While he was stationed Tinian and Saipan they use to put "Kilroy was here" on a lot of the ordinance they dropped but changed it most of the time to "Here comes Kilroy"....

Thanks for the great memories.....

8~\o

My dad told me the story,also. He was in the Army Air Corp too,with the 509th Composite Group,on Tinian. I bet Texan's dad and mine knew each other as Tinian Island was not a very big place.

 

[Delf]

New member

Sundog,
I'm a new member too. I have a 2014 HD trike. Maybe we can get together sometime. I live in Boise.
I am a retired Navy A-7 pilot, callsign "Elf". Retired in 1995 after 21 years of service. Flew for SWA for 18 years and retired July 2014. Loving retirement! Love the trike! Just put on the reduced reach handlebars which make it more comfortable for shorter riders. I'm going on a 2 wk ride though WY, CO, UT, ID starting Friday. Should be a blast! Go Navy, Beat Army!

 

[Lucky]

Welcome glad you joined us. Thanks for your service. RIDE SAFE

 

[Keystone]

Welcome to TT!

 

[Gorilla]

Sundog,
I'm a new member too. I have a 2014 HD trike. Maybe we can get together sometime. I live in Boise.
I am a retired Navy A-7 pilot, callsign "Elf". Retired in 1995 after 21 years of service. Flew for SWA for 18 years and retired July 2014. Loving retirement! Love the trike! Just put on the reduced reach handlebars which make it more comfortable for shorter riders. I'm going on a 2 wk ride though WY, CO, UT, ID starting Friday. Should be a blast! Go Navy, Beat Army!

Welcome aboard DELF enjoy the ride. be safe

 

[Rob683AD]

Qual Boat was USS John Marshall SSBN-611G
Also served on USS George Washington Carver SSBN-656B
USS Nathan Hale SSBN-623G
USS-Michigan SSBN-727B

Retired Chief Missile Technician.

 

[2006gold]

Not one either. Served in the ground based air Navy (P-3's) operating a couple of sensor stations and radio. Tracked a lot of subs, mostly soviet. Did have the honor of meeting a WW2 submariner on the last cruise the wife and I went on. Some awesome stories.

 

[Sully]

LA Times Quote of the day - priceless

Quote of the day by Dianne Feinstein.......

Dianne Feinstein: "All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms."

Yep, - she really said it on Thursday in a meeting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.... And the quote below from the LA Times is priceless. Sometimes even the L.A. Times gets it right.

Kurt Nimmo: "Senator Feinstein insults all U.S. Veterans as she flays about in a vain attempt to save her anti-firearms bill."

Quote of the Day from the Los Angeles Times:

"Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're Number One. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on ' Macbeth '. The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."


Columnist Burt Prelutsky,
Los Angeles Times

Be sure to forward this to all of the "mentally ill" vets you know. Especially the ones with guns..

 

[gwnut]

Its really funny that our girl Dianne carries with a concealed carry permit. I guess she has never served in the military so she is mentally competent. Go figger!!!!

 

[Gorilla]

She must of got dropped on her head when she was little. I can not come up with any way that comment makes any sense at all.

 

[1dn5up]

Its really funny that our girl Dianne carries with a concealed carry permit. I guess she has never served in the military so she is mentally competent. Go figger!!!!

She might carry but when it comes to the nitty-gritty she shit in her wetsuit

 

[Hhardrockminer]

The women in office for Calif. seem to out do the other weomen there with their stupity LIKE "You have to pass it to see what's in it" MUST NOT BE ABLE TO READ I guess.
All I can say is they're DUMBER than a BOX of ROCKS

RIDE SAFE and FREE!!!!

Ken

 

[Phu Cat]

I am ashamed of you guys. Don't you know it's not right talking about a person that has a handicap this way? You do know Dianne Feinstein was born with her head up her ass, don't you?

PC

 

[Phu Cat]

Sundog, Did you go thru the AF academy by chance? If so, maybe my buddy's name of Lance Sijan might mean something to ya. He musta had a set the size of basketballs.

Phu Cat

 

[Phu Cat]

I remember back in '68 raising my right hand and swearing "to uphold and defend", but I don't recall there being an expiration date. And to this day when the National Anthem plays I don't put my hand over my heart, I give the sharpest salute I can, in memory of the guys we lost defending that flag. I don't care what others around me might think. That's MY flag, I love it and will continue to defend it till the day I die.

PC

 

[DblTrbl]

Ah, so she suffers from Cranial Rectal Inversion.... :xzqxz:

 

[Sundog29]

Sundog, Did you go thru the AF academy by chance? If so, maybe my buddy's name of Lance Sijan might mean something to ya. He musta had a set the size of basketballs.

Phu Cat

Hi Phu Cat - I didn't know Lance personally but sure know of him.

 

[wehrme]

I am ashamed of you guys. Don't you know it's not right talking about a person that has a handicap this way? You do know Dianne Feinstein was born with her head up her ass, don't you?

PC

...and still has it there.

 

[Ol' Man Jeb]

In the "FWIW" vein, http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/feinstein.asp

 

[Ed Hobgood]

Thanks Sully for the post, I looked at this a few days ago and each day for some reason I keep coming back and looking at it.

 

[BigWheel5b]

I'm one! Served and qual'ed on USS Bonefish (SS)582 in 1982 in San Diego as Electrician's Mate.

 

[Shmick]

Kilroy at WW2 Memorial

I was fortunate to be a Guardian on the 2nd Honor Flight. I was assigned a WW2 vet who was in the first wave at Normandy. (Honor Flight's mission is to get all WW2 vets to Washington to see their memorial at no cost to them.) Incredible experience! Anyway, after lunch a 3 star General asked if we saw Kilroy in the memorial. We hadn't, so he actually took us back there himself and showed where the designers snuck Kilroy in...quite inconspicuous. My wheelchair-bound vet laughed out loud for the 1st time that day. Changed his whole demeanor! Laughter and tears ensued. Remarkable!

 

[rhino 2]

3 of my Uncles were in WW2... There all gone now, One is forever nineteen in Anzio....
They told me when they would see a Kilroy ' It would give them a laugh, And the knowledge that there were American units in front so they better step it up a little to catch up...
They would also joke that Patton would leave Kilroy's behind for Montgomery to see...:laugh:

 

[Dockem]

Was able to visit the Memorial Traveling Wall this weekend.

Very well done, a lot of people came out to see it in our small town. Moving memorial service.

 

[Rod69]

The Moving Wall is very Special to me. While Working for the City of Lawrenceville, Illinois the Moving wall came to town. Got to build the base for the Wall to set on. You won't believe how that felt. Helped put up the panels. Reading the names of the Brave Soldiers as you set each panel was Humbling. Couldn't keep from getting misty eyed. Had big Parade and ceremony for all Veterans in town. Big Huey came in during ceremony, was spectacular. Five kids from our town was on the wall!

Will never forget the special meaning this Wall has.
Putting up and taking down the Wall was unbelievable. We now have a monument and Flag Pole where the Wall was. Something unusual was were the wall sat, the grass didn't grow for several years. Walk in the park almost everyday and say a prayer and take my hat off to these brave souls as I walk by the monument. Rest in Peace.