“I am 76 years old, a veteran of the European Theatre of Operations and went in to Omaha Breach on the 14th of July, 1944 when the Germans were just six miles inland.
This past week ago Monday my wife and I attended the Memorial Day services at a small town in Wisconsin. As was my custom, I wore my Eisenhower jacket (which I can get on but can’t button) with my T5 rating on the sleeve along with 4 gold stripes for two years overseas and the few ribbons I picked up along the way and my overseas cap. I stood at the right times and saluted at the right times. As we got up to leave an army officer from the Vietnam conflict who had been on the band shell as one of the speakers came up to me and said: “I saw you in your uniform and I just wanted to say thank you.”
~ An excerpt from The Greatest Generation Speaks (p. 167) ~
Without veterans, this country and every life of every person living here would not be what it is – blessed by extreme freedom and opportunity. On this Veterans Day, take into consideration the life you live and especially those things you can be thankful for. Then go and thank a veteran, because they’ve helped make those things possible.
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