Tom Wilson,
United States Army Infantry
1969-1975

------------------

People may have become discouraged with the country but its still the best in the world I would like to say thanks to all the veterans who have kept it that way .Also anyone visiting or living in or around Boston thats a veteran Boston Duck Tours gives free tours to Veterans on Veterans day Mike

I liked it too, thanks
Retired AirTorce, Disabled Veteran, '87


------------------
DG
Springfield, Ohio
70 Chevelle Malibu

www.wright.edu/~adams.6/chevy.htm (http://www.wright.edu/~adams.6/chevy.htm)
TEAM Chevelle Member #0086
Genx member (Founder 4 Ohio)

USS Saratoga Navy Ditto's! 84-88
Thanks guys!

------------------
71 Ragtop, under construction and over budget!
MCC #347, TC (Gold) #174

I don't mean to start a long thread thats not about tech, but here goes. As an Air Force memeber that trains new recruits coming in, I would have to say that I am DAMN proud of this country and what we stand for!!!! Thanks to this site for not letting this day go by without remembering us.

........all gave some, some gave all........

--Jerry--
USAF 1988-current

[This message has been edited by Chevguy68 (edited 11-11-99).]

Buddy Harley
United States Army
1970-1973
God Bless America

------------------
Harley
69 461 El Camino Nitrous Model, 69 Chevelle coupe
70 El Camino,71 SS Camaro
79 Corvette
Kerrville,Tx.

Larry Merkle
United States Army
Korea 1964-1966

A tremendous character building experience!

------------------
Larry
Gold Member #245
Seattle WA

I have never been in the military nor have I ever thought of it, and for thirty years I have never given thanks to those for whom this day is for. Last week right here on this site I saw a post that was talking about bumper stickers, and one had stated "Like your freedom, thank a vetran" and at that moment I was hit buy lightening, emotions ran through me,I can't explain the feeling that over took me. To all vetrans "Thank You" I love you all.

------------------
Mr.Thick #321
70SS Elky
Tulsa,Okla
http://sites.netscape.net/thickmadison/homepage
918/261-2121

Thanks is all I can say.

ETC(SW)Jake Piell
U.S. Navy (Ret)
1971-1991

I'm a huge war movie fan, and I've always admired the heroics of the characters on the screen (I know its not the same as real life). It really makes me think about all those who have served for this country and I really look up to all American Veterans who have fought for our freedom. Thanks guys. You guys deserve "Veterans Week," not just a day!

------------------
Jeremy J. Bennett
Team Chevelle #298
www.chevelles.com/showroom/72CHEVELLE1.jpg (http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/72CHEVELLE1.jpg)



[This message has been edited by 72CHEVELLE (edited 11-11-99).]

U.S.NAVY 1965-1968
U.S.S.PITKIN COUNTY LST-1082
THANK YOU DAD and all the veterans before and after me.

------------------
Leo Paugh
Maryland Chevelle Club #017
Those who do the world's real work don't usually wear ties.

I didn't serve, but someone I owe a lot to did:

Capt. Arthur F. Byfield
Surgeon, WWI

Kurt

Nick Popoutsis
1990-1994 Navy
Desert Shield-Desert Storm
As the song goes I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

------------------
Proud owner of a 66 chevelle. later, Nick a.k.a POPS
Member #387

Thanks!! Retired Air Force (20 years)!
Dec 77 to Jan 98. Desert Storm!
Never Forget! Salute!

Doug
1971 Chevelle SS

Thanks to all vets!

Son of: Vietnam Vet USMC
Grandson of: WWII vets USN
Nephew to: Korean vets USMC

POW/MIA You are not forgotten!



[This message has been edited by Bob70 (edited 11-11-99).]

Doug Hinton
USNMCB 4
VietNam - 1968

Welcome Home!

Thanks to all veterans who have risked their lives to preserve the freedom that we take too often for granted. And bless the memory of those that gave their life.
Proud to be a free Canadian and wish all countries could leave in peace with their neighbours the way we do with the great country south of us.
Dont ever forget what freedom has cost.

Thanks to all the Veterans

VETERANS Day should be only second to
Christmas! The way this country trivilizes memorial day makes me crazy! First we "not me "vote for a president that was a draft dodger over two WWII decorated war hero's! Then we treat this great day like arbor day leaving some schools open and goverment offices open. We owe everything short of god to them. THANKS!!!!

Browsing this awesome website is something that makes many of us feel good. But seeing the "we support our veterans" graphic has taken the good feelings and atmosphere of Chevelles.com to a new level. Very nice touch on this very special day.

Thank you veterans for keeping our country free, and making it the greatest place to live on earth.

God bless America, Joe Clark.

Rene Cartier
US Army Medic
1969-1971
Thanks

Thanks Dad, I miss you.

Paul Daniel Mosier
11th Airborne
Pacific Theatre, WWII

Rick Loncosky MM2
U.S.S. Shreveport LPD 12
1974,75,76
In my genealogy seach I'm proud to say that Loncoskys have been in all wars since my Greatuncle inlisted in 1901.

Dale Flinn
USN 73-77
Vert/Rep Air-Crewman
Helicopter Combat Support

------------------
Lowered '67 Elcamino
ZZ430 eng / 4L60E trans
"Canyon Carver"

Thnx to all you who sacrificed.

Gene Chaas
USA INSCOM 85-89

As soon as I saw the graphic, I wanted to post the same message. Very nice and thank you Al!

USAF 1994 - present


------------------
Rick Sutter
Member #383
'67 SS 396
San Antonio, TX
www.sutternet.com/chevelle.asp (http://www.sutternet.com/chevelle.asp)

Thank you Armed Forces of the United States for protecting the freedoms I enjoy every day. You guys and gals have tons to be proud of - and so do the citizens you protect! http://www.chevelles.com/forum/smile.gif

------------------
'70 Malibu - 383 'Fog Fed' Stroker! Houston, Texas Gold Member #39
Chevellz Alwayz!

I tell everyone what an extraordinary site this is. It's here that we can share some of our feelings about things, other then cars, with a group of great people that we could not otherwise do. Thanks everyone! http://www.chevelles.com/forum/smile.gif

Steve Courter
USArmy MP 101st Airborne Div.
Vietnam 1970-71
Aces 209
TG63

Thanks Al and thank you to all who have served.
Philip Valentine
USN 1969-1972

WHAT IS A VET?
Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a
jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.

Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone
together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner
steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.

Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America
safe wear no badge or emblem.

You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating
two gallons a day and making sure the armored personnel carriers
didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose
overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic
scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to
sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or
didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has
saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account Rednecks and gang
members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals
with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass
him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose
presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the
memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with
them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now
and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who
wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the
nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who
offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his
country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice
theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he
is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the
finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just
lean over and say Thank You.

That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than
any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".

November 11th is Veterans Day. Remember:

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the
press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the
freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn
the flag."

Thanks Al, for the Graphic.

Tom Parsons
Medic-Surgical Technician
Spec5 US Army
Airevac Nam 1962-3
Not one scratch. VERY LUCKY!

Dad, Dale Parsons, USN, WWII
Came home and died of cancer.

Uncle Jerry (Mom's big brother), B-17 pilot, never lost one crew member, but lost 2 engines one day.

Son, Tom Jr, USN, Persian Gulf

------------------
Tom Parsons

thanks for the great graphics, it's good that people really appriciate us grunts. proud to have served in the army. we all lost too damn much. john

U.S. Navy 1968 - 1972. Aviation Electronic Technician. Serving my country is the best thing I ever did. At the time, I did'nt really realize the significance of what it meant. Every day since, what a feeling. If you have to explain it to someone, then they obviously just don't have a clue. For everyone who served, thank you. Whether you enlisted, were drafted, it does not matter. You unselfishly gave part of your life to preserve this country and the freedom that it represents. We can all enjoy the pleasures of life that are based on the freedom that was/is protected by our armed forces.



------------------
Bob Murray 66 Malibu
Greenfield, Indiana (Indianapolis)
TC Gold #49
Aces #01941
NCOA #20838

Thanks to all who served for the priveledges I and everone in this great country enjoy everyday!
Thanks,
Rich

usn 1969-1973, boiler tech on dd849 uss richard e. krauss, 11 months in viet nam.
god bless this country, my family, and of course my chevelle. got to admit this thread brought a tear to my eye.

This topic has proved to me that this is the best site on the web. Chevelles, God, and Country, what more could a Real man need ?" but maybe a lady from time to time" thanks again to our veterans !

The recognition means a lot to us vets. Thanks.
Gary Stegmiller
USMC
Vietnam 1969-70

Hat's off to all the Vets. Fr. O'Brien said it best.

Woj. USAF 1980-Present

Thankyou for the great graphic!

Jerry Kampo
US Army 1967-1969