ACTIVE MILITARY AND VETS, please read...

[Short on Cache]

Thank you for the recognition. I wish I wasnt stationed so far from OH! Im all the way in WA at Ft Lewis JBLM. Hopefully in the next few years when I get back to the midwest the offer will still stand and Ill be there!

[Rustic]

Originally posted by Mudd:
I appreciate your recognition of our service.

I think it was over 30 years after I got back home before I heard anything that even closely resembled a "Thank you!".

The general population has made a great deal of change for the better in their attitudes toward veterans.

I am grateful to all of the men and women who are currently serving our country.

Some of these are most definitely in harms way, those not only get my thanks but my prayers.

God bless,Mudd

ditto... good things come to those who wait

[buckster]

Thanks from a Desert Storm Vet!  Awesome gesture indeed!!

[Fletcher]

Thanks, Rick, and you are welcome!  My wife is from Barnesville; if we get in the area, I may try to take you up on the offer.

Best,  Rick

US Army 71-74

[Linwood Hines]

Originally posted by centaur:
Thanks for caring. Treatment of vets today is much better than in some years past, and for that I am very glad. Some of us can remember a much different way that vets were treated. If you have ever read the poem "Tommy" by Rudyard Kipling, you could get an idea of how the military was treated in the late 60s and early 70s. I am grateful that those times are past us.

Agreed, Centaur, and I have a little experience with that, coming home in '73.  I also thank the people who have done the enthusiastic work to have created the change (in veterans affairs) that we see now!

[Craig Schoneberg]

As others have said, Thank You to all Veterans and active duty Military Personnel.

I don't want to take anything away from the original post but I would like to put something out for everyone to think about.

If you take a deer this season think about taking a small portion 10 pounds or so and having it made in to jerky.  Send the jerky to a Soldier serving in Afghanistan.  If you don't know anyone serving - contact your local Military Recruiter or National Guard units - they should at least be able to provide names of Division Chaplains.

I started a Jerky for the Troops project 5 years ago and to date I've shipped in excess of 3700 pounds of finished jerky to Soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.  My freezer is starting to fill up now with more venison donations.