[Steppes] OT -- Thank A Veteran Not Just Today But Everyday

[glen wilkerson]

To my grandfather, who flew Neuports before he finally got into a SPAD 13, and got three confirmed kills.

To my father, who was a drill instructer, an MP, and a flight engineer on C-47s, C-54s.  He also flew a few B-17 bombing missions when they needed a replacement flight engineer.  Later, as an engineering inspector, he eventually retired flying B-36s out of old Carswell Air Force Base.

Glen   

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>From: Susan McMahill <sueorintx at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 11, 2008 9:57 AM
>To: "dietrich.von.greyssen at gmail.com" <dietrich.von.greyssen at gmail.com>, steppes at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Steppes] OT -- Thank A Veteran Not Just Today But Everyday
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>Thanks to my grandfather, who left the farm in northern Iowa to serve in the Navy in WWI. It may have been hard to "keep em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree," but grandpa came back, and farmed for over 50 years.
> 
>Thanks dad, for his service in the Navy during the last months of WWII. He trained for submarines, but for some reason was never assigned a sub. To my knowledge, he was the only graduate of his sub school class that survived the war. He then, within a few years, rejoined the military, choosing the newly-separate U.S. Air force. He served in Korea, Japan, France, Germany, Turkey (several of those twice.) The first five years of my life, he was gone more than 75% of the time as an electronics instructor that moved from base to base. He switched jobs after my sister was born so that the family would be more stable, becoming an ELINT man. serving at sometimes very remote electronic listening stations during the darkest hours of the Cold War. We were in Germany while the Berlin Wall was built and the Cuban Missile Crises loomed. Dad spent his long working hours on a remote base right on the border of West Germany, East Germany, and Chekoslovakia while mom sat at home with us kids 
> trying to figure out where to go and how to get there if the border should be crossed. (it was much closer to reality than most people here will ever know or understand.)
> 
>To my son, Adam. Thank you for just beginning your military service in a time when many are afraid or refuse to do so.
> 
>Thanks also to my mom and all the other military spouses and families who serve as much as do their spouses and parents. Sometimes theirs is the hardest job of all. Too often the families and their service are forgotten in these rememberences. Their sacrifice is often the most dear. Their uniformed soldier/sailor/airman/marine has a job to do and is well-trained for it and well-supported. The families are often thrust into this service without really knowing or understanding what they will go through and the wait can be agony when their loved one is in harm's way.
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>Lyneya de Grey
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>Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:50:55 -0600> From: dietrich.von.greyssen at gmail.com> To: Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> Subject: [Steppes] OT -- Thank A Veteran Not Just Today But Everyday> > I know this is off topic, but Today is Veteran's Day.> > Because you have the freedom to read this, Thank a Veteran.> Because you have the freedom to respond to this without fear, thank a> Veteran.> Because of the sacrifice countless men and women have made, shedding blood,> sweat and tears so that YOU can live the life you lead today, thank a> Veteran.> > I will start off.> > To my wife's grandfather, a Master Sergeant in both the Marine Corps and> Army (yes you read that right), who fought in some of the worst fighting in> WWII in the Pacific Theater, Thank you. We all love you and appreciate you> for what you did.> To Chris Fisher, aka Lord Falen Caimbeul, thank you my friend, for all that> you did when you served.> > I know ther
> e are many others out there in the SCA who are Veterans. Thank> them today...and thank them everyday.> > Dietrich von Greyssen> mka Eric Dickey> > my blogs....> http://currentmiddleages.blogspot.com> http://bigmanintraining.blogspot.com> http://randomthoughtsbyeric.blogspot.com> _______________________________________________> Steppes mailing list> Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/steppes-ansteorra.org
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