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Thanks.
« on: November 11, 2009, 04:52:05 PM »
12AX7, BizB, Demosthenes: Thanks, Dudes.

If I'm forgetting someone here: Thank you, too.

And also: Thanks, Pop, for what you did in Normandy when you were my son's age.

Edited to clarify: ...when you were your grandson's age.

« Last Edit: November 11, 2009, 08:49:03 PM by ivan »
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Re: Thanks.
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2009, 05:00:22 PM »
My own service was mostly self-interest motivated.  It was the only way for me to afford any sort of education whatsoever at the time, after being screwed over financially by my father after I moved out at a young age.

That said, it was not without a certain amount of patriotism and enthusiasm that I joined the US Navy.  Naval tradition has always been something that fascinated me, and I wasn't disappointed.
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Re: Thanks.
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 08:15:29 PM »
You mean being on boats for long periods of time with men, just men, for many days at a time? Up on the deck with lots of men, or down in the galley with lots of men?
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2009, 08:46:12 PM »
Yes, thank you guys very much.  And also both my grandpa's who fought in WW2.  One of them had to forge a parent signature to get in because he had a bad eye.
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Re: Thanks.
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2009, 12:32:37 PM »
My dad was drafted and had to go to Vietnam.
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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2009, 12:37:24 PM »
Des nada.  I hated most of the time I was in, but I have a couple of good stories out of it.
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Re: Thanks.
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2009, 10:42:25 AM »
Quote from: Joe Sixpack on November 11, 2009, 08:15:29 PM
You mean being on boats for long periods of time with men, just men, for many days at a time? Up on the deck with lots of men, or down in the galley with lots of men?

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Re: Thanks.
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2009, 12:18:31 PM »
No, mostly just the head shaving part.
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2009, 01:07:21 PM »
A long time ago, the Red Army tried to draft me, as it did most male Soviet citizens, but I got out of it on account of not actually being a Soviet citizen. It was laugh riot. I should tell you that story some time.

Wait... I just did.
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« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2009, 01:14:55 PM »
So when was that?  Was it too early for you to have been sent to Afghanistan?
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« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2009, 02:04:26 PM »
1974, peacetime.  I actually would not have minded, but there was no chance -- I was a US citizen.

Still am.

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« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2009, 03:31:59 PM »
gee, I had no idea you guys were veterans.
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« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2009, 04:00:42 PM »
Quote from: ivan on November 13, 2009, 02:04:26 PM
1974, peacetime.  I actually would not have minded, but there was no chance -- I was a US citizen.

Still am.

Hey!  That's when *I* became a US citizen!
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« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2009, 04:19:20 PM »

Sure when you're as old as those guys you're bound to have seen a war or two!
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« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2009, 04:22:29 PM »
...you're all such geezers.
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« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2009, 04:33:14 PM »
We could start a geek squadron.
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« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2009, 08:45:13 PM »
I can see the lawsuits now.
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Re: Thanks.
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2009, 07:32:59 AM »
Quote from: ivan on November 11, 2009, 04:52:05 PM
12AX7, BizB, Demosthenes: Thanks, Dudes.

If I'm forgetting someone here: Thank you, too.

And also: Thanks, Pop, for what you did in Normandy when you were my son's age.

Edited to clarify: ...when you were your grandson's age.



Quote from: Detta on November 11, 2009, 08:46:12 PM
Yes, thank you guys very much.  And also both my grandpa's who fought in WW2.  One of them had to forge a parent signature to get in because he had a bad eye.

   Well, you're welcome and thank you for the expression of gratitude. Those things mean a lot to me. I did enlist to serve my country and it's people and for no other reason; and it sort of validates my belief in the 'greatness' of the people here to know that the service given by myself and others is realized and appreciated. For me, at least, it's expressions such as yours that made it all much more than worthwhile. So, "you're welcome" and "Thanks."

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