My Dad and all my uncles served, but both of my grandfathers (and my great uncle) fought for their country in WWI!

All came home, one being a POW after being shot down over Ploesti Romania, and I served '71 -'73
To our dads & uncles...

My grandfather Mauro was a Sicilian immigrant who served in Europe and was awarded citizenship for it. My grandfather George, the only one of that generation I knew in my adulthood, served in Pershing's expeditionary force in the Southwest against Pancho Villa. His service was noted in the New York papers ("War veteran's sister marries former German spy" ) when his sister married a former spy for the kaiser who had defected and helped the US war effort. That was my great uncle Mark, a brilliant chemist, who I remember meeting when I was a kid.

Not a sucker or loser among them.

Thanks for posting this, KS Toronado.

I saved the one of trump saying "I regret to inform you that your son was a loser."

but decided it was worthwhile to remind everyone what he thinks of us Veterans.

As a veteran, daughter and granddaughter of WWII veterans, it keeps the blood flowing through my veins with purpose to see them.

A special thank you to my ancestors who served fighting fascists

Thank you for the great toons.

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That one hit me like a ton of bricks. It made me think of my Uncle Joe, whom I never met, a gangly teen-ager whose biggest thrill was to get to the record store every week to hear the latest tunes. But he enlisted and fought overseas till one day he suffered a flesh wound on a French battlefield, but his buddy suffered worse, and Joe carried him to safety. They were short on penicillin so his more severely wounded buddy got it and Joe didn't. He died there from an infection. My grandmother, a Sicilian immigrant, never got the whole story from the army so she made the train trip from Fort Edward to a hospital in New York City to see his buddy and learn what happened to her teen-aged son.

These are great, book marking for future use.

This is a great collection, much appreciated.

Here's some other good info about veterans. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/08/the-changing-face-of-americas-veteran-population/

[Chorus]
You know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"

[Verse 3]
So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare as if you didn't care
Say, "Hello in there, hello"

Some great information on the artist and his legacy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_In_There_(song)

when I meet a Marine Veteran who's unit landed on every beach in the Pacific. He had all kinds of stories
how they outfoxed the enemy, the one I've always remembered was how they screwed two 2x4s to a M1
rifle with the rear one tall enough to hold a helmet and a string to pull the trigger. One foxhole would have
a couple of those set ups doing all the firing and drawing all the attention and then the other foxholes would
carefully look around and get bead on the enemy.

Here's the sad part, someone asked him how many of his original unit made it back to the States, and he
said "Out of the battalion only 4 of us" Don't know how many was in a Marine battalion back then but
guessing a thousand.

Thoughtful and insightful……
Peace ☮️