How blessed I am to know and love selfless, strong and brave men & women who served in the armed forces!
I am so very proud of my brother Jim the MARINE. I remember my heart swelling with pride seeing him in his Marine uniform. He was already good looking, but that uniform made him even more so! I think all my girlfriends had a crush on him! I loved hearing him tell stories about serving. The one I recall most is his telling of how proud he was being one-of-hundreds holding a huge gynormous United States flag from underneath and having tears in his eyes while telling it. Thank you Jim. I love you!
Thank you uncle Benny and my uncle Buster, my cousin Fred, and ex-cousin-in-law Terry for serving in the NAVY! Thank you Aunt Nelda for your service in the AIR FORCE. I have always looked up to you!
Thank you Bill for your service in the AIR FORCE. It wasn't easy letting you go to Viet Nam and wonder if you would be coming back home to me. I know how very hard it was for you to witness the horrors you saw and try to make the world seem normal when you came back!
Thank you to my uncle Cotton and uncle Kenneth for your service in the Army. Thank you Ted for serving in the ARMY and for the sacrifice in pain that you experienced losing friends and being wounded in the jungle of Viet Nam. How tender must have been your feeling knowing that your child was being born when you were so far away. Thank you for taking time to write to me. I cherish those words. I loved you then and still.
Thank you my Grandad Cluff for your service in WWI. You will always be one of my heros!
HEROS ALL!!
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Thank you Paula for honoring me among all those guys!D You are really good with words and it brought tears to my eyes just reading your tribute. Thanks Again, Your Aunt Nelda Loves YOU!!
You are amazing!! What a moving tribute to all who served and especially those that were close to you.
Vets ROCK--nuff said. ;o)
I got a call from my brother Jim last nite, and decided after our conversation to write some additions to this post of others in our family who served. I also figured out that I had the wrong world war for Grandad Cluff and made that correction! Thanks, Jim for the additions!
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