Veterans Day

Pictures: Three of our own: Bob Elliott, Joe Doyle, Richard Swayze.

Diane remembers back in 1964 and 1965 during the rapidly intensifying build up in Vietnam that the powers that be tried to minimize what was going on down there. She also remembers it was one of those engagements that never was declared a war and yet it sure looked like a war with all the fallen on both sides, all the destruction. (Diane was up in Yokosuka while we were down south moving Marines and their equipment here, there and everywhere.) I remember the long wait for decisions to do something, anything. Eventually that decision was made, to go big in Vietnam, and we landed the Marines at Chulai, just south of DaNang. And then the D&D, death and destruction, really started.

But this day we remember not the wars that made us all veterans but rather the men and women who served, who answered their country's call and did what they were asked. To each of them, a thank you and a hug and a bless you.