Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

Yep, I remember watching the Desert War on TV news at the time. He was very well known and popular. A real "Fighting General" in the tradition of Patton, though not a prima donna like Patton and Monty. He was all business - the business of winning a war.

 

My ancestors came home from the Civil War, and in the 7 generations since no one has served, because we didn't enlist and they don't draft farmers. Thank y'all for your service. Down here we celebrate both memorial days, last Sundays in April and May.

 

I had many military family members. I was named after an uncle who died stateside in the US Army during WWII. Mom's youngest brother Larry was a supply Msgt in the USAF during the Vietnam War. Dad's youngest brother Purvis was in the Navy about the same time. My Dad served two hitches in the USAF in the late 1950s, missing Korea by a couple years. Finally I served four years as an Avionics Tech in the USAF 1976-1980 and then six years as an Electronic Tech in the US Navy 1980-1986. I tell people I served "tween wars", no combat though my little ship did brazenly cross Kadaffy's "Line Of Death" several times during our 1983 deployment, but he never came out to play. Those Navy Tomcats had bloodied his nose well, back in '81.