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From: Humboldt KS USA
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posted 11-11-2005 06:08 AM               

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I would like to encourage everyone to remember the veterans today. Give thanks to them for the freedom that we have. I also like to think of the troops that are serving our country today. I would like to give thanks to the astronauts that are veterans. Most were military pilots who served our country in our armed forces then again with NASA.

With respect.

Mike Myer
Humboldt KS

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From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
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posted 11-11-2005 06:45 PM               

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I also would like to offer my most sincere and humblest thanks to all who have sacrificed for the cause of freedom.

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Don

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posted 11-11-2005 06:49 PM               

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I just got back from a symposium of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Bataan death march, B-17, battleship Alabama, and Easy Company (Band of Brothers) vets. My god what these guys went through!! We can't thank them enough.

Dutch vanKirk (the Enola Gay navigator) was also there. I had to thank him especially for saving my dad's life - Dad was in the First Marine Division on Okinawa, and they were starting to train for the invasion of Japan when the bomb fell. They were going to be in the first wave...

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posted 11-11-2005 07:00 PM               

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What a wonderful sentiment, Mike!

One of my employees, NASA Photographer Louis A. Rosales, is currently deployed in the Middle East fulfilling his duty as a U.S. Naval Reservist. Lou calls and e-mails at every opportunity to express his wonderment at the successes of STS-114 and The Station. He's ready to come back and help us go back to the moon.

posted 11-11-2005 07:11 PM              

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Originally posted by micropooz:
Dutch vanKirk (the Enola Gay navigator) was also there.

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I had the same experience a few years ago with Colonel Paul Tibbets, the Pilot of the Enola Gay.

My Dad was biding time on a ship in the Pacific awainting a probable amphibious landing in Japan where there would have been terrible carnage on both sides. I'm convinced the A bomb,as terrible, yet necessary as it was, saved many lifes including my Dad. (Also thanks to Harry Truman, a proud doughboy veteran of WWI).

I thanked Col. Tibbets for saving my Dad's and many other lifes, and I thought he was going to cry. This surprised me as I'm sure he had heard this many times. It proved to me again that we all like to be appreciated and thanked.

Thank you Ladies and Gentleman for your sacrifices.

"Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but beggard is the nation that has heroes and forgets them."

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posted 11-12-2007 05:29 PM            

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I would like to take this opportunity to recognize not only astronauts/aviators who have served this great country, but also those veterans of all foreign wars including the brave soldiers who have served (fighting the good fight) in Iraq & Afghanistan.

God Bless America!

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posted 11-13-2007 12:03 PM               

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This country owes all of our veterans and the men and women who serve today a huge debt of thanks. Whether you beleive in the current mission or not, the people who have to carry it out deserve every support.

God Bless each and every one of them.

Tim

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posted 11-13-2007 07:07 PM               

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My father was gound electrician for the Enola Gay when it was stationed at Roswell N.M. from November of 1945 until April of 1946.

I have the utmost respect for all Veterans and thank them for service to the free world.

Terry

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