Thanks for the info
To All Our Vets...
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Yeah. Don't hold your breath on Applebums. We ate there forgetting about the vet's day. Place was packed for a Tuesday. I didn't see anything on the Menu for vetsThat I liked. So I got the ribs
. MY fingers have more meat on them then these ribs I had. BIG disappointment!!! Wife's dinner was cold and our friends wife's also. Trip turned out to be a bummer. Don't think the 4 of us will go back there anytime soon. I don't need a FREE meal. I just want a HOT and tasty one !
Should do it for the entire week.
just did oil change for my 2 car/trucks at Jiffy Lube for free cause of vets day, good for Wednesday too. Golden Corral 5 to 9 pm. on Monday the 17th.
Phill Griggs
450+ Posts
We had a problem with the first video so here is again.
From April to the first of November over 500 riders participated in the “TOUR OF HONOR” I road several hundred miles to pickup 27 Memorials.
The following video is a collection of Memorials that these riders collected honoring our American Hero's. The video is 35 minutes long. So get you a cup on this cold winter day and enjoy seeing how the different city honor America’s finest.
Picture Man
From April to the first of November over 500 riders participated in the “TOUR OF HONOR” I road several hundred miles to pickup 27 Memorials.
The following video is a collection of Memorials that these riders collected honoring our American Hero's. The video is 35 minutes long. So get you a cup on this cold winter day and enjoy seeing how the different city honor America’s finest.
Picture Man
I'm not seeing a link
That did not work for me Phil. Mwy just be me though. RIDE SAFE
It works, just click on the pic. ThumbUp
Very nice, I have never heard of this before and tho it was a long video it was interesting. I would like to add Hermansville, Michigan to the list. For a small town we have a lot of people who are involved in maintaining memorials. The Vietnam Veterans maintain a museum with artifacts and a Huey and a tank on static display. We also are the site of the memorial for the Twin Towers , meaning we have two pieces of steel from the WTC, and we are working to build a memorial to house them plus several artifacts donated to us. So if you are ever in the area, please stop by.
Thank you sir for posting this. Noblesville Honda installed a set of Kuryakyn heal and toe floor boards free as a vets discount when I purchased the bike.
About the American Sniper
Now I understand why Hollywood is opposed to American Sniper.
As you know the movie has just been released about CHRIS KYLE. Many of you may not be familiar with our TEXAS HERO!
Please read this about his funeral. You may want to see the movie.
TEXAS GOODBYE
This is why America will remain strong. We take care of our own as well as others who may not deserve taking care of. I just wanted to share with you all that out of a horrible tragedy we were blessed by so many people.
Chris Kyle was Derek's teammate through 10 years of training and battle. They both suffer/suffered from PTSD to some extent and took great care of each other because of it.
2006 in Ramadi was horrible for young men that never had any more aggressive physical contact with another human than on a Texas football field.
They lost many friends. Chris became the armed services number #1 sniper of all time. Not something he was happy about, other than the fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American lives.
Three years ago, his wife Taya asked him to leave the SEAL teams because he had a huge bounty on his head by Al Qaeda. He did and wrote the book "The American Sniper."
100% of the proceeds from the book went to two of the SEAL families who had lost their sons in Iraq.
That was the kind of guy Chris was. He formed a company in Dallas to train military, police and I think firemen how to protect themselves in difficult situations.
He also formed a foundation to work with military people suffering from PTSD.
Chris was a giver not a taker.
He, along with a friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered trying to help a young man that had served six months in Iraq and claimed to have PTSD.
Now I need to tell you about all of the blessings.
Southwest Airlines flew in any SEAL and their family from any airport to the funeral... free of charge.
The employees donated buddy passes and one lady worked for four days without much of a break to see that it happened.
Volunteers were at both airports in Dallas to drive them to the hotel.
The Marriott Hotel reduced their rates to $45 a night and cleared the hotel for only SEALs and family.
The Midlothian, TX Police Department paid the $45 a night for each room. I would guess there were about 200 people staying at the hotel, 100 of them were SEALs.
Two large buses were chartered (an unknown donor paid the bill) to transport people to the different events and they also had a few rental cars (donated).
The police and secret service were on duty 24 hours during the stay at our hotel.
At the Kyle house, the Texas DPS parked a large motor home in front to block the view from reporters.
It remained there the entire five days for the SEALs to meet in and so they could use the restroom there instead of the bathroom in the house.
Taya, their two small children and both sets of parents were staying in the home.
Only a hand full of SEALs went into the home as they had different duties and meetings were held sometimes on a hourly basis. It was a huge coordination of many different events and security.
Derek was assigned to be a Pall Bearer, to escort Chris' body when it was transferred from the Midlothian Funeral Home to the Arlington Funeral Home, and to be with Taya. A tough job.
Taya seldom came out of her bedroom. The house was full with people from the church and other family members that would come each day to help.
I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris' mom and the next morning with Chad Littlefield's parents (the other man murdered with Chris). A tough job.
George W Bush and his wife Laura met and talked to everyone on the Seal Team one on one. They went behind closed doors with Taya for quite a while.
They had prayer with us all.
You can tell when people were sincere and caring.
Nolan Ryan sent his cooking team, a huge grill and lots of steaks, chicken and hamburgers. They set up in the front yard and fed people all day long including the 200 SEALs and their families.
The next day a local BBQ restaurant set up a buffet in front of the house and fed all once again. Food was plentiful and all were taken care of.
The family's church kept those inside the house well fed.
Jerry Jones, the man everyone loves to hate, was a rock star. He made sure that we all were taken care of. His wife and he were just making sure everyone was taken care of.Class.
He donated the use of Cowboy Stadium for the services because so many wanted to attend.
The charter buses transported us to the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am. Every car, bus, motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police.
I am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a name for themselves or if so many SEALs in one place was a security risk, I don't know. We willingly obliged. No purses went into the stadium!
We were taken to The Legends room high up and a large buffet was available. That was for about 300 people. We were growing.
A Medal of Honor recipient was there, lots of secret service and police and Sarah Palin and her husband. She looked nice, this was a very formal military service.
The service started at 1:00 pm and when we were escorted onto the field I was shocked. We heard that about 10,000 people had come to attend also.
They were seated in the stadium seats behind us.
It was a beautiful and emotional service.
The Bagpipe and drum corps were wonderful and the Texas A&M men's choir stood through the entire service and sang right at the end. We were all in tears.
The next day was the 200-mile procession from Midlothian, TX to Austin for burial. It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people were out.
We had dozens of police motorcycles riders, freedom riders, five chartered buses and lots of cars. You had to have a pass to be in the procession and still it was huge.
Two helicopters circled the procession with snipers sitting out the side door for protection. It was the longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas. People were everywhere.
The entire route was shut down ahead of us, the people were lined up on the side of the road the entire way.
Firemen were down on one knee, police officers were holding their hats over their hearts, children waving flags, veterans saluting as we went by.
Every bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed from their tall ladders, people all along the entire 200 miles were standing in the cold weather. It was so heartwarming.
Taya rode in the hearse with Chris' body so Derek rode the route with us.
I was so grateful to have that time with him.
The service was at Texas National Cemetery. Very few are buried there and you have to apply to get in.
It is like people from the Civil War, Medal of Honor winners, a few from the Alamo and all the historical people of Texas.
It was a nice service and the Freedom Riders surrounded the outside of the entire cemetery to keep the crazy church people from Kansas that protest at military funerals away from us.
Each SEAL put his Trident (metal SEAL badge) on the top of Chris' casket, one at a time. A lot hit it in with one blow.
Derek was the only one to take four taps to put his in and it was almost like he was caressing it as he did it. Another tearful moment.
After the service, Governor Rick Perry and his wife, Anita, invited us to the governor's mansion.
She stood at the door, greeted each of us individually, and gave each of the SEALs a coin of Texas. She was a sincere, compassionate, and gracious hostess.
We were able to tour the ground floor and then went into the garden for beverages and BBQ.
Many of the Seal team guys said that after they get out, they are moving to Texas. They remarked that they had never felt so much love and hospitality.
The charter buses then took the guys to the airport to catch their returning flights.
Derek just now called and after a 20 hours flight he is back in his spot, in a dangerous land on the other side of the world, protecting America.
We just wanted to share with you, the events of a quite emotional, but blessed week.
Punch-line: (pathetic as it might be)
*To this day, no one in the White House has ever acknowledged Chris Kyle. - his service, his death, his duty, his generosity, his caring, his life.
However, the President can call a sports person and congratulate him on his bravery for announcing to the world that he is gay.
He can say on national television say that someone, a man who has committed a crime, and was shot by police in the line of duty, would have made him a good son.
The SEALS have asked that you please, keep this moving if you think Chris Kyle would have made a good son.
Now I understand why Hollywood is opposed to American Sniper.
As you know the movie has just been released about CHRIS KYLE. Many of you may not be familiar with our TEXAS HERO!
Please read this about his funeral. You may want to see the movie.
TEXAS GOODBYE
This is why America will remain strong. We take care of our own as well as others who may not deserve taking care of. I just wanted to share with you all that out of a horrible tragedy we were blessed by so many people.
Chris Kyle was Derek's teammate through 10 years of training and battle. They both suffer/suffered from PTSD to some extent and took great care of each other because of it.
2006 in Ramadi was horrible for young men that never had any more aggressive physical contact with another human than on a Texas football field.
They lost many friends. Chris became the armed services number #1 sniper of all time. Not something he was happy about, other than the fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American lives.
Three years ago, his wife Taya asked him to leave the SEAL teams because he had a huge bounty on his head by Al Qaeda. He did and wrote the book "The American Sniper."
100% of the proceeds from the book went to two of the SEAL families who had lost their sons in Iraq.
That was the kind of guy Chris was. He formed a company in Dallas to train military, police and I think firemen how to protect themselves in difficult situations.
He also formed a foundation to work with military people suffering from PTSD.
Chris was a giver not a taker.
He, along with a friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered trying to help a young man that had served six months in Iraq and claimed to have PTSD.
Now I need to tell you about all of the blessings.
Southwest Airlines flew in any SEAL and their family from any airport to the funeral... free of charge.
The employees donated buddy passes and one lady worked for four days without much of a break to see that it happened.
Volunteers were at both airports in Dallas to drive them to the hotel.
The Marriott Hotel reduced their rates to $45 a night and cleared the hotel for only SEALs and family.
The Midlothian, TX Police Department paid the $45 a night for each room. I would guess there were about 200 people staying at the hotel, 100 of them were SEALs.
Two large buses were chartered (an unknown donor paid the bill) to transport people to the different events and they also had a few rental cars (donated).
The police and secret service were on duty 24 hours during the stay at our hotel.
At the Kyle house, the Texas DPS parked a large motor home in front to block the view from reporters.
It remained there the entire five days for the SEALs to meet in and so they could use the restroom there instead of the bathroom in the house.
Taya, their two small children and both sets of parents were staying in the home.
Only a hand full of SEALs went into the home as they had different duties and meetings were held sometimes on a hourly basis. It was a huge coordination of many different events and security.
Derek was assigned to be a Pall Bearer, to escort Chris' body when it was transferred from the Midlothian Funeral Home to the Arlington Funeral Home, and to be with Taya. A tough job.
Taya seldom came out of her bedroom. The house was full with people from the church and other family members that would come each day to help.
I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris' mom and the next morning with Chad Littlefield's parents (the other man murdered with Chris). A tough job.
George W Bush and his wife Laura met and talked to everyone on the Seal Team one on one. They went behind closed doors with Taya for quite a while.
They had prayer with us all.
You can tell when people were sincere and caring.
Nolan Ryan sent his cooking team, a huge grill and lots of steaks, chicken and hamburgers. They set up in the front yard and fed people all day long including the 200 SEALs and their families.
The next day a local BBQ restaurant set up a buffet in front of the house and fed all once again. Food was plentiful and all were taken care of.
The family's church kept those inside the house well fed.
Jerry Jones, the man everyone loves to hate, was a rock star. He made sure that we all were taken care of. His wife and he were just making sure everyone was taken care of.Class.
He donated the use of Cowboy Stadium for the services because so many wanted to attend.
The charter buses transported us to the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am. Every car, bus, motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police.
I am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a name for themselves or if so many SEALs in one place was a security risk, I don't know. We willingly obliged. No purses went into the stadium!
We were taken to The Legends room high up and a large buffet was available. That was for about 300 people. We were growing.
A Medal of Honor recipient was there, lots of secret service and police and Sarah Palin and her husband. She looked nice, this was a very formal military service.
The service started at 1:00 pm and when we were escorted onto the field I was shocked. We heard that about 10,000 people had come to attend also.
They were seated in the stadium seats behind us.
It was a beautiful and emotional service.
The Bagpipe and drum corps were wonderful and the Texas A&M men's choir stood through the entire service and sang right at the end. We were all in tears.
The next day was the 200-mile procession from Midlothian, TX to Austin for burial. It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people were out.
We had dozens of police motorcycles riders, freedom riders, five chartered buses and lots of cars. You had to have a pass to be in the procession and still it was huge.
Two helicopters circled the procession with snipers sitting out the side door for protection. It was the longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas. People were everywhere.
The entire route was shut down ahead of us, the people were lined up on the side of the road the entire way.
Firemen were down on one knee, police officers were holding their hats over their hearts, children waving flags, veterans saluting as we went by.
Every bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed from their tall ladders, people all along the entire 200 miles were standing in the cold weather. It was so heartwarming.
Taya rode in the hearse with Chris' body so Derek rode the route with us.
I was so grateful to have that time with him.
The service was at Texas National Cemetery. Very few are buried there and you have to apply to get in.
It is like people from the Civil War, Medal of Honor winners, a few from the Alamo and all the historical people of Texas.
It was a nice service and the Freedom Riders surrounded the outside of the entire cemetery to keep the crazy church people from Kansas that protest at military funerals away from us.
Each SEAL put his Trident (metal SEAL badge) on the top of Chris' casket, one at a time. A lot hit it in with one blow.
Derek was the only one to take four taps to put his in and it was almost like he was caressing it as he did it. Another tearful moment.
After the service, Governor Rick Perry and his wife, Anita, invited us to the governor's mansion.
She stood at the door, greeted each of us individually, and gave each of the SEALs a coin of Texas. She was a sincere, compassionate, and gracious hostess.
We were able to tour the ground floor and then went into the garden for beverages and BBQ.
Many of the Seal team guys said that after they get out, they are moving to Texas. They remarked that they had never felt so much love and hospitality.
The charter buses then took the guys to the airport to catch their returning flights.
Derek just now called and after a 20 hours flight he is back in his spot, in a dangerous land on the other side of the world, protecting America.
We just wanted to share with you, the events of a quite emotional, but blessed week.
Punch-line: (pathetic as it might be)
*To this day, no one in the White House has ever acknowledged Chris Kyle. - his service, his death, his duty, his generosity, his caring, his life.
However, the President can call a sports person and congratulate him on his bravery for announcing to the world that he is gay.
He can say on national television say that someone, a man who has committed a crime, and was shot by police in the line of duty, would have made him a good son.
The SEALS have asked that you please, keep this moving if you think Chris Kyle would have made a good son.
Sully, Thank you so much for sharing this!!!:goodjob:
God bless you Sully. This posts should be read by every red blooded American. Tears should fall from every cheek. Every heart should break.
Sully,
Thank you for sharing. Above that I really don't know what to say. Heart touching.
Thanks again. Prior service member but not life giving as some did, in the field and off.
Thank you for sharing. Above that I really don't know what to say. Heart touching.
Thanks again. Prior service member but not life giving as some did, in the field and off.
Thank you sir for the great post.
Thanks Sully, God Bless America, God bless Texas, have to wipe my eyes now.
Thank you Sully for posting this. I wish I could come up with the words I feel about this but right now I just want to say "thank you" to all of you that serve.
For those who severed in Vietnam. A Tribute found on UTube
I can't get the whole clip to play, Every 30 seconds or so it stops.. But I get the gist of it,
Thanks...... 66/67......
Very nice. I tip my hat to all that served. And pray for all of those who didn't make it back.
Peter A.
1000+ Posts
Thank you Sully..........and a SALUTE to all my
fellow Veterans!
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fellow Veterans!
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Served from 66 to 70 USAF. My luck held and I was assigned to a training squadron state side. I trained air traffic controllers for most of 3 years. Still it breaks my heart to all the brothers and sisters that did not make it back and all of us that had to endure and ungrateful segment of the population that did not understand the difference between service and politics. There are still thousands of Vietnam vets that suffer from their service. We can not forget them.
I live in Dunlap Tn. and would like to know where I may be able to connect with some veterans who go on rides together.
Welcome glad you joined us. Probably a Patriot Guard group you can ride with locally. RIDE SAFE
Google Patriot Guard Riders for your state, then go to your city. They are a good group of people. Welcome to Trike Talk
The American Legion as well as the Veterans of Foreign Wars have groups check them our also.
Here is another example of veteran service organizations. Being retired and able to be available on call are helpful.
Least we can do for those that DID SO MUCH.
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