OUR MILITARY.

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68jk09

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SEARS TAKES CARE OF THE MILITARY..... QUOTE..... Christmas shopping this year.

I know I needed this reminder, since Sears isn't always my first choice. It's amazing when you think of how long the wars have lasted, and Sears hasn't withdrawn from their commitment. Could we each buy at least one thing at Sears this year?

What commitment you say?

How does Sears treat its employees who are serving in our military? By law, they are required to hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being on active duty.

Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all employees who are serving.


I submit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its contribution. I suggest we all shop at Sears at least once this year. Be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement & feedback it well deserves.


I decided to check this before I sent it forward. So I sent the following e-mail to the Sears Customer Service Department:

I received this e-mail and I would like to know if it is true. If it is, the Internet may have just become one very good source of advertisement for your company. I know I would go out of my way to buy products from Sears instead of another store for a like item, even if it's cheaper at that store.

This is their answer to my e-mail:

Dear Customer:
Thank you for contacting Sears. The information is factual. We appreciate your positive feedback. Sears regards service to our country as one of greatest sacrifices our men and women can make. This is the "least" we can do for them. We are happy to do our part to lessen the burden they bear at this time.
Bill Thorn
Sears Customer Care

Please pass this on. Sears needs to be recognized for this outstanding contribution and we need to show them as Americans, we do appreciate what they are doing for our Military!!!


It's verified! By: www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.asp .... UNQUOTE....THANK YOU SEARS.

 
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Interesting counterpoint to this article.  Last night I passed by the site of our last week's Veterans Day ceremony in Chelsea and noted that the wreath was still in its place.  The area is often a gathering site for the transient and the homeless and I learned today that those gentlemen have made sure that the wreath has remained undisturbed for ten days.  Some of them are Veterans. You never know who you're dealing with.  Remember that and keep them in your prayers.
 
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That really is a GREAT Story. Thank you Chief JK and thank you "JOR176" for passing that on. And if you don't mind, I'd like to pass it on also. It sure makes you think.

  For our younger members who don't know this guy Tony Orlando or a song about yellow ribbons.

  And for Chief JK, "68jk09", Jack O'R., "JOR176", and all our other veterans on this site, who wanted to come home, this one is for you. With a Special Thank you for what you have done. We take you back to those days of one very famous song. Sung by a guy named Tony Orlando. Called: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree".

  THANK YOU our U.S. Military Veterans.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ouKAhxZbQ
 
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SOMETHING THE BLEEDING HEARTS SHOULD THINK ABOUT.... QUOTE...
I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967, a Sqdn. Commander.
After I returned in 1973...I published 2 books that dealt a lot
With "real torture" in Hanoi .  Our make-believe president is
Branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has
No idea what torture is.
 
As for me, I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond..
Pistol whipped on the head....same event..  Couple of days later...
Hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got
Shot and recaptured.  Shot was OK...what happened afterwards was not.
 
They marched me to Vinh...put me in the rope trick, trick...almost
Pulled my arms out of the sockets. Beat me on the head with a
Little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot,
Unbroken hand a pulp.
 
Next day hung me by the arms...rebroke my right wrist...wiped
Out the nerves in my arms that control the hands....rolled my fingers
Up into a ball.  Only left the slightest movement of my L forefinger. 
So I started answering with some incredible lies.
 
Sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck.
 
Hanoi ..on my knees....rope trick again.  Beaten by a big fool. 
 
Into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel.
 
Much kneeling--hands up at Zoo.
 
Really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson.
 
Several more kneeling events.  I could see my knee bone thru
Kneeling holes.
 
There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo.  I was the Senior
Officer of a large building... because of escape...they started a mass
Torture of all commanders.
 
I think it was July 7, 1969...they started beating me with a car fanbelt.
In the first 2 days I took over 300 strokes...then stopped counting
Because I never thought I would live thru it.
 
They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent
Part in the escape.  This went on for at least 3 days.  On my knees...
Fan belting...cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke.  Opened up
Both knee holes again.  My fanny looked like hamburger...I could not
Lie on my back.
 
They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape...and
That my 2 room-mates knew about it.
 
The next day I denied the lie.
 
They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of
The fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th..to 14 October
1969.  I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.
 
Now, the point of this is that our make-believe
President has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of
Torturers...Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they
Catch us...because that is what the U.S. Does.
 
Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks
That pouring a little water on some one's face, or hanging a pair of
women's pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE..  He is a meathead.
 
I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron,
In jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does
Not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
Torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.
 
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
Our great country are a disgrace to the United States .  Please pass
This info on to Sean Hannity.  He is free to use it to point out the
Stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after
Effect...is torture.
If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ...
Hurrah for the guy who poured the water.
____________________________________________________________________
 
"Bud" Day, Medal Of Honor Recipient
 
George Everett "Bud" Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired
U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the
Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. 
Service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having
Received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions
In combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.....UNQUOTE...THANK YOU SIR.






 
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Major George Everett Day was flying a 2-seat F-100F "Fast FAC" on 26 August 1967 when the aircraft was hit by AAA fire. Both plots ejected, the co-pilot was rescued but Major Day was captured before he could be rescued. He suffered several injuries during ejection including a dis-located left knee, a blood clot in his eye, and his left arm was broken in 3 places. He escaped several times from his captors before being re-captured and sent to Hanoi was he suffered many severe torture sessions at the hands of Cuban interrogators. Major Day was released from Hanoi on March 14, 1973.
 
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68jk09 said:
SOMETHING THE BLEEDING HEARTS SHOULD THINK ABOUT.... QUOTE...
I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967, a Sqdn. Commander.
After I returned in 1973...I published 2 books that dealt a lot
With "real torture" in Hanoi .  Our make-believe president is
Branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has
No idea what torture is.
 
As for me, I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond..
Pistol whipped on the head....same event..  Couple of days later...
Hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got
Shot and recaptured.  Shot was OK...what happened afterwards was not.
 
They marched me to Vinh...put me in the rope trick, trick...almost
Pulled my arms out of the sockets. Beat me on the head with a
Little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot,
Unbroken hand a pulp.
 
Next day hung me by the arms...rebroke my right wrist...wiped
Out the nerves in my arms that control the hands....rolled my fingers
Up into a ball.  Only left the slightest movement of my L forefinger. 
So I started answering with some incredible lies.
 
Sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck.
 
Hanoi ..on my knees....rope trick again.  Beaten by a big fool. 
 
Into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel.
 
Much kneeling--hands up at Zoo.
 
Really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson.
 
Several more kneeling events.  I could see my knee bone thru
Kneeling holes.
 
There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo.  I was the Senior
Officer of a large building... because of escape...they started a mass
Torture of all commanders.
 
I think it was July 7, 1969...they started beating me with a car fanbelt.
In the first 2 days I took over 300 strokes...then stopped counting
Because I never thought I would live thru it.
 
They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent
Part in the escape.  This went on for at least 3 days.  On my knees...
Fan belting...cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke.  Opened up
Both knee holes again.  My fanny looked like hamburger...I could not
Lie on my back.
 
They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape...and
That my 2 room-mates knew about it.
 
The next day I denied the lie.
 
They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of
The fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th..to 14 October
1969.  I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.
 
Now, the point of this is that our make-believe
President has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of
Torturers...Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they
Catch us...because that is what the U.S. Does.
 
Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks
That pouring a little water on some one's face, or hanging a pair of
women's pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE..  He is a meathead.
 
I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron,
In jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does
Not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was
Torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.
 
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing
Our great country are a disgrace to the United States .  Please pass
This info on to Sean Hannity.  He is free to use it to point out the
Stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after
Effect...is torture.
If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ...
Hurrah for the guy who poured the water.
____________________________________________________________________
 
"Bud" Day, Medal Of Honor Recipient
 
George Everett "Bud" Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired
U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the
Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. 
Service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having
Received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions
In combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.....UNQUOTE...THANK YOU SIR.
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  Just reading that story makes me sick. How could anybody do that to another human being ? I guess the REAL QUESTION is "How can anybody go through that with no hope of when it will end" ?

  This is the first time I ever heard that story. But it will stick with me for the rest of my life.

  To me, Major George Everett Day is NOT a HERO. He's A GOD.
 
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52 YEARS AGO.....Operation Chopper - January 12, 1962

In the first use of the recently-arrived U.S. helicopters, Operation Chopper lifts about 1,000 South Vietnamese paratroopers to an assault on a suspected Viet Cong headquarters about 10 miles west of Saigon.

Operation Chopper marks America's first combat missions against the Vietcong.

 
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nfd2004

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68jk09 said:
23 YEARS AGO....THE START OF OPERATION DESERT STORM - January 16, 1991.
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  Hard to believe that was 23 years ago. We were able to watch this on our television sets as it was happening. I remember thinking that we were going to take a beating as the planks dropped into the water and our soldiers would attempt to fight as they ran for land.

  Instead we saw a high tech war using direct hit missiles fired from ships off sea. Our military was hitting all their major roads and bridges. We knocked out their communications systems and the enemy was surrendering by the hundreds within a few hours.

  It was referred to as "Shock and Awe". I'm glad I was on the winning side of that because I know I was "shocked and awed" by what I saw. As I remember, the late General Norman Swartzkoff was the man who ran that campaign. He was referred to as "Stormin' Norman". He had all the great qualities of what a real leader should be. 
 
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General Schwartzkopf JR. was the son of Colonel Norman Schwartzkopf Sr. The colonel was also a West Point graduate, WW 1 veteran and the founder and first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police in 1921. He wore badge number 1
 
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jmag228 said:
General Schwartzkopf JR. was the son of Colonel Norman Schwartzkopf Sr. The colonel was also a West Point graduate, WW 1 veteran and the founder and first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police in 1921. He wore badge number 1
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  Thank you "jmag228". I didn't know that but I always considered General Schwartzkopf Jr an excellent leader. I would watch him as he gave reports on TV and I thought to myself, "If I ever became a leader, I would try to follow him in the way he led the troops". He was respected by all, not just the military.

  I don't know if guys know this or not, but this months issue of "Readers Digest" (February, 2015) has an interesting article in it called: Our Troops Tell All". I've only read a few bits of it, but so far it seems pretty good.
 
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