Happy Memorial Day!!!

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Does anybody have a favorite vet to mention?

My wife's uncle, Allen Sills, died in the Bataan Death March in WW2. Since the Japanese were shooting anybody who slowed them down, Allen carried his buddy to the prison camp. They both died of disease and neglect in the POW camp. My wife was born 25 years after he died, but my MIL still likes to talk about her big brother. We keep his picture out so we don't forget him. I have many relatives who are vets, but Allen is the only one we lost in war that I know of.

Happy Memorial Day!

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We have a few veterans in the family. Nothing as serious as yours but they all served and made it home. My FIL was in WWll. You never woke him out of his sleep unless you wanted to be cold cocked. Only once after many beers did he share any of his war stories. Seemed like he buried most of those years.
We have a cousins son that finished 2 tours in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan and got out over a year ago. He could have left 3 months earlier then he did, but wanted to stay till his whole company returned to the states. Just couldn't leave his men behind. He is bicycling this summer from Washington state to Washington DC with a buddy who's life he saved in Iraq.

May God Bless our fighting men and women!