I'm sick and tired of people running down America I love America and always will and I'm a Canadian!!!! I love everything about John Wayne tough,smart,brave and bold a true hero!!!
+notlih11, that is POSSIBLY accurate, but even if true, the term "dodger" with what it implies isn't fair. Here are two links from slightly different viewpoints that say you are correct to a degree, but for a different reason than the one you espouse, followed by a link supporting the storyline that he did try repeatedly to serve: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2819281/John-Wayne-DID-dodge-draft-continue-torrid-affair-sexy-German-actress-Marlene-Dietrich-best-lay-ve-new-book-reveals.html www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1055/was-john-wayne-a-draft-dodger www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2010/02/28/john-wayne-world-war-ii-and-the-draft/
I was lucky enough to meet this great American as a young boy in Los Angeles and he told me, "Son, there is no better way to honor your father, than to learn from his mistakes and love him as a good son would." I took those words to heart and live by them still today.
my son sitting on my lap right now and listening to this video and your story of John Wayne explaining to love and honor and learn from your father's mistakes choke me up thank you for sharing and God bless...
And he learned from Wyatt Earp(Yes him) while helping out at Hollywood when Earp was trying to sell his story to Hollywood(he never did succeed in that venture) but The Duke did base his character personality off of him. So you had the chance of also learning a bit of Earp’s wisdom.
I am crying, John Wayne was right, I know I have done my best to honor my Dad. I am a veteran like him, same branch of service Air Force. My Mom said I looked so much like Dad when I came home in my blues. I am very much his twin, He died when I was 14 and was never able to see me wear the Air Force uniform, I know he would have been proud! He was a Staff Sergeant when I was born, so my goal before leaving the service was to be promoted to Staff Sergeant, I succeeded in getting that promotion. TAPS has a huge meaning to me as well as it has been played over my Dad's grave and my older brother's whom served in the Army. I never get through hearing it played without sobbing!!! I will say it as my actions have said it: I Love You Mom and Dad, rest in peace!!!!
I have had the honour to play our tribute to the fallen, we call it the last post in the UK. Has the same meaning as Taps. From across the pond this Veteran salutes America, respect to you all.
Peepresc ....Thank you UK... from America.. I (as well as others here in the USA) sent our respect to all of you likewise who have served, are serving and have fallen... May God Bless us all and keep us safe from our enemies....
It was no problem. I have heard this since I was a little girl and I have always loved it. I am the daughter of a Vet and a very proud American. I just want people to know more about our history and what it means.
I bought this album when it first came out in 1973. Still have it and still LOVE it!!! John Wayne one of the last silver screen and real life heroes. He believed in this country. We need many more like him. GOD BLESS YOU DUKE & THANKS!!
For those that have served in uniform, police, fire, military, this song holds significance in that we went to sleep with it, and laid to rest our brothers and sisters in the uniform. Beautiful, but heart wrenching. TAPS either says goodnight, or rest in peace with God. Most grown men cry when they hear it and remember the fallen heroes in their lives. SSgt Miller Veteran
Reading this made me tear up a little. I remember that first night on Parris Island myself. Scared to move or make a sound. But my heart was full of determination. I'll be 52 in a few months. I guess some things stay with you forever. Thank you for sharing that and above all, thank you for your service. May God bless you and yours. - Semper Fi
this goes out to all my veteran friends and the folks i serve with today, Only John Wayne can put this in the proper way. To all war veterans this what we do. And thank you for it. Our children are safer for what you have done. And for that have lost it is not in vane due to the fact you all have us to give you peace in your hearts and we will keep up the fence they built, till the day we give the same sacrifice they gave. so help me GOD
One of the most sad and yet proudest songs that have made my heart weep is Taps. It brings tears to my eyes and reminds me of those that have served our country and those that have give the ultimate sacrifice for the country.
I consider it an honor you responded m'am. I'll humbly pray for your grandson's safe return. The service you gave to our beloved Corps in a time when women were not valued or appreciated shows what it is to be a Marine. We are born Marine's, we just lack the training. I realized it in the 7th grade. Tomorrow we have many friends coming over to celebrate the 4th. I'll pull the men of honor aside and we'll say a word for Rich, you, your family and all our Marines.
this goes out to all my veteran friends and the folks i serve with today, Only John Wayne can put this in the proper way. To all war veterans this what we do. And thank you for it. Our children are safer for what you have done. And for that have lost it is not in vane due to the fact you all have us to give you peace in your hearts and we will keep up the fence they built, till the day we give the same sacrifice they gave. so help me GOD.
On this Veteran's Day 11=11, thank or hug a Veteran. And share this moving tribute to ALL Vets, from John Wayne, and the story of Taps. God Bless America!
My late father, John Mitchum wrote the text to this piece as well as 8 other poems on the album- America, Why I Love Her. When he and John Wayne heard the playback of Taps for the first time, John Wayne turned to my father with tears in his eyes and asked "John, won't the people get mad at me for talking"? Thank you for your appreciation for this piece and thank you posting the video. Cindy Mitchum
God Bless You sadeyes, my daddy died not in WWII, but because of it. Taps and our flag are two of the most precious things to me.. I especially love to hear echo taps.. If you have never head it played with an echo, the chills will run through your body. One plays in sight, and another may go behind a building, etc.. and if you do not shed a tear, you are a hard core to break.. My dad was very young, but I still miss him everyday..
I have heard taps as an Airman when it was time to rest, then again when a fellow soldier, sailor, airman, marine and coast guard'sman was laid to his final resting place. I never can go through hearing Taps without tears welling up in my eyes for those heroes!! SSgt Miller Veteran
I turned 80 in June, so I go back to the first group of women into the Marines as Regulars..they were reserves before that. I do not think you ever lose the things that really change your life. Thank you, and for your service. My Grandson is over Afghanistan today flying a Black Hawk, picking up our wounded. His name is Rich, Keep him and the others in your prayers.
I have played Taps as a trumpet player/bugler and this is one song that makes me shed a tear. I am humbled and honored to play it knowing the history of Taps.
Do not diminish the men and women who died in the years before and during the start of WWII, in England, It was their bravery that gave us the edge when Roosevelt finally got the power to go in. Our congress wanted NO part of it until December 7, 1941, when Japan called our hand. I know, I was listening to the radio every day.
The toughest thing I have ever had to as a active duty Marine while wearing full dress blues was to hand a flag that drapped a coffin of one the men in my platoon to the father who had a son killed in a training exercise at Twenty-Palms Marine Corps base and keep a strait face while taps was being played. These dipshit nfl football players need to be at a military funeral to see this and maybe they will understand why you stand for the playing of the National Anthem and the presentation of the colors by a armed forces color guard.
Thanks for posting that. I miss John Wayne, he will be remembered forever. It was great to hear the story of taps....being told by him made it even more emotional. God Bless our Veterans and John Wayne.
I played taps for my school just this veterans day. Thankfully I didn't crack a note. My legs were shaking but I played with a great tone and sound. Many people said I did great and I thank all of them for their support.
Thank you , to you and all those who stepped up when this nation needed a force to protect "Our" land.. A Special Thanks to those who lie in our National Cemeteries around the world, on the Arizona and all those lost at sea. What ever the war, wherever they laid down their life...at home in bed or on a battlefield. You, YOU were a special breed. You are sorely missed.
1862, i never knew the history of this song. i just always knew what it represented.. respect for the fallen. and remembrance for the brave. it's a song that reminds me of home. too me home was Las Pulgas. Camp Pendleton Ca, home of the Artillery for U.S. Marines @ first Mar Div. 11th Marines. this song played every night @ 22:00 hrs. and even the Coyotes would cry. any one ever stationed there should know that. Semper-fi!
@1958wvpicker Thank you for your kind words. I grew up singing the words growing up. I love the words and i feel they are very powerful. May America reign as long as there are patriots to die for her and to support her.
To All TRUE Patriots Who Have Ever Served Our God Given Nation,, Thank You !! GOD BLESS The Families, & Friends Left Behind in EVERYWAY POSSIBLE in Jesus Name AMEN !! 😇😇😇
Butterfields served with General Washington. Some at Valley Forge. Dan Butterfield's father was John Butterfield, who ran the first transcontinental stage line, the Butterfield Stage Line. My dad was Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Ray Butterfield, he served in WW2 in the Pacific.
And my family was at Valley Forge my great+ uncle was aid to Von Steuben . He was his translator. Small world indeed. We must always honor our forefathers. 👍👍👍
Obviously theres 93 who has never served in the armed forces or had a family member in the armed forces ! If they had there would be no thumbs down ! Dont disrespect something you know nothing about ! Those who has served an paid the ultimate price deserve our respect !
I am sorry for your lost! Yes you are right so many soldier would love to have those words on his memorial Card.. Today we laid one of my family members to rest. He was world War 2 veteran and was awarded 4 Bronze Stars. He would Cry when he would talk about Normandy, he lost so many of his friends and saw things, that no man should ever see. I wish you and your family the best
My son came to me on June 10th 2005 saying he was joining the Marines, on August the 5th...I said there is a war going on you can't go...He said Mama I have to,On November the 5th I was one proud Mama. Long live the Marines and long may our sons and daughters continue to serve even in the face of danger. Semper Fi...
Every time I hear that song I stand at attention an give a salute. Then I feel sad inside because I know what that song stands for. That some young man or women has died while serving thier country. God bless all of them for they alone know what the price of freedom is.
Taps, will be played at my funeral, as they enter my cremains into their final resting place. Hear it more often, as my fellow soldiers come to the end of this incarnation, and begin their next. Too many of whom have left this plane, too soon.
I remember living in the barracks at Vint Hill, VA, 72 to 73. One of the post's speakers was just a bit away from our barracks. We heard all of the bugle calls daily. The most haunting was, of course, Taps. Maybe because it will be played for us as we are laid to rest, as it has been for all of my now departed brothers. SFC, Retired.
God Bless America, the greatest nation in the world. John Wayne was from the greastet generation. We have brave men and women today fighting, but there are many young who would not fight for this country today. Back in Johns day, a young man did not even think twice. Many came home, many injured, and many gave it all. They are all angels in heaven.
God, John knows how to put that lump in your throat and bring that tear to your eye. This country needs a man like him again! Someone not afraid to wear her colors and love all she has done for man instead of criticize everything she didn't or couldn't do. He brings honor to wonderful men and women everywhere that gave everything and THAT'S what America's all about appreciation and love.
When my dad died he was a WW2 veteran. Unless you hear those taps inside a church If you don't know then don't comment negative It was then I knew what he gave to me and my country and still after 30 years haunts me every day and I'm so proud of my dad God Bless you dad.
@1958wvpicker When one hears TAPS played for his own fallen son it really hits home. This happened to me in 2004 when my 21 year olld son died while serving in the US Army. This song stills brings tears to this old soldier's eye's.
I love the lyrics to these pieces. I have four of the songs from the album. I think your father did a wonderful job with capturing America. Thank you for your father.
even if you are a man and TAPS brings tears to your eyes it is ok. You also know that they are working to protect you freedom. i am a man and it still brings tears to my eyes they are for joy. GOD BLESS THE USA
As a Member of the Patriot Guard Riders, I've heard Taps many a time. No two times are alike. The chill that runs down your spine....the hair standing up on the back of your neck as you render the final salute to a Hero...each time is unique. It's truly an honor to say that I've had this privilege, and while it may not be easy...I'm honored to do it. It's the least I can do for someone who's given their all... As Billy Ray Cyrus says, "All Gave Some...Some Gave All."
I will also do the for me.There is just something for a soldier, regardless of his Branch of Service. One side I had a picture of the Unknown Soldier with Taps being played. On the other side, two Angels helping a child over roaring water & the bridge is barely holding on by one rope, & but the Angels have their Arms around the child, protecting him, saying "We'll help you over". It's quite comforting. I was Army, my husband Air Force. But as they say 'Once a soldier, ALWAYS a soldier".
Norma Kay 37 seconds ago this has a lot of truth in this video, that the Americans people need to get back to. That's the only way to save our country. God knows who is voting and working for this country that God has in trusted to us as american. AMEN
This is for the POS who called Duke a draft dodger. John Wayne has been on people’s minds lately. Dick Cavett recently wrote a nostalgic New York Times piece about his lone meeting with Hollywood’s “Duke.” He also told of the meeting on the Dennis Miller Show. Meanwhile, liberal author Gary Wills, presumably an expert because of his 1992 book John Wayne’s America; the Politics of Celebrity, was on another radio show loudly exhorting Wayne as a draft dodger during World War II. Oh, the hypocrisy of it all, Wills went on with glee that America’s biggest media patriot had shirked service during one of the nation’s most trying times. Perhaps Cavett and Wills were both reacting to last years Harris Poll where amazingly Wayne was still ranked third amongst America’s favorite male film stars. Wayne is the only deceased actor on the list and the only one to have appeared in the top ten every year since the poll was started in 1994, despite the fact that he died in 1979. Wayne once said, “It’s kind of sad when normal love of country makes you a super patriot.” That kind of honest sentiment that came across on film has helped the “Duke” maintain such a revered place in so many American hearts and minds. The charges of Wayne being a “draft dodger” are not new and with a simple Google search one can find any number of far left types absolutely blowing their “peace and love” credentials over Wayne and his lack of service in World War II. The truth is far more complex and even “hidden in plain sight” than one would think. Upon graduating from Glendale High School in 1925, Wayne applied to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, hoping to live out his dream of being a career Naval officer. He came close but was instead chosen the first alternate candidate. By the start of World War II Wayne had been suffering for years from a badly torn shoulder muscle incurred in a body surfing accident that cost him his football scholarship at USC in 1927. He also had a bad back from performing his own stunts during ten years acting in “B” Westerns. Moreover, he suffered from a chronic ear infection, resulting from hours of underwater filming on Cecil B. De Mille’s Reap the Wild Wind in 1941. Had Wayne actually undergone a pre-induction physical, he might indeed have been classified 4-F. According to Randy Roberts and James Olson’s top notch John Wayne American, as a married but separated father of four and thirty-four years old in 1942 Wayne was classified by the Selective Service as 3-A (deferred for family dependency). In 1944 as the U.S. Military feared a manpower shortage he was reclassified 1-A (draft eligible). There is no record that he disputed this reclassification but his employer, Republic Studios, did and requested he be given a 2-A classification (deferred in the national interest, i.e., war bond drives, visiting the troops, etc.). Selective Service records for World War II are spotty at best, many having been destroyed, but surviving records indicate these claims were filed “by another,” i.e. Republic Studio’s legal department. In fact, a letter from Republic Studios head Herbert Yates threatened to sue Wayne for breach of contract should he leave the studio for volunteer military service, though it is doubtful he would have carried through with the threat. But Wayne was indeed Republic’s biggest moneymaker during the war and that studio’s only “A” star at the time. Yet, according to director John Ford’s grandson, in 1943 John Wayne tried to get a commission in the Marine Corps and get attached to Ford’s O.S.S. (the forerunner of the C.I.A.) Field Photographic Unit. In Pappy; the Life of John Ford, Dan Ford says emphatically “…that the billets were frozen in 1943. John (Ford) couldn’t get Wayne in as an enlisted man, much less an officer.” For Duke; the Life and Image of John Wayne Ron Davis interviewed over seventy Wayne intimates including Jimmy Stewart, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Harry Carry Jr., Robert Stack and Gene Autry, who all served during World War II. He never noted criticism of Wayne on the draft issue from any of them. There is a letter from Wayne to Ford in May of 1942 in the John Ford Papers at Indiana State University quoted by Davis in which Wayne practically begs his mentor to find a way for him to join up: “Have you any suggestions on how I should get in? Can you get me assigned to your outfit, and if you could, would you want me? How about the Marines? You have Army and Navy men under you. Have you any Marines or how about a Seabee or what would you suggest or would you? No I’m not drunk. I just hate to ask for favors, but for Christ sake you can suggest can’t you? No kidding, coach who’ll I see.” No response by Ford has yet surfaced but these don’t sound like the words of a man shirking his duty. Wayne’s sometimes secretary at Republic, Catalina Lawrence, remembered writing letters to various military officials inquiring about possible service during this time period. There has always been a suspicion that Ford refused to intercede on Wayne‘s behalf because he knew that with so many other male “A” stars in uniform that his friend would have an excellent chance of becoming a major star. Also, as great a director as Ford was he could often display a manipulative and sadistic side a mile wide. He might have refused to help in order to have something that he knew was important to the actor over Wayne’s head for the rest of his life. Ford’s Field Photo Unit was no rear echelon cakewalk either, composed mainly of cameramen, sound men and editors with Ford as the boss. They were often right in the thick of things as they were on June 4, 1942 at the decisive naval battle at Midway where Ford himself was wounded by shrapnel. Two of Ford’s cameramen were killed during the war, Junius Stout and Arthur Meehan, both sons of well-known Hollywood cinematographers. By 1943, with officer’s slots all filled, the only way Wayne could have gone into the service was as an army private; he had waited too long. Years later Wayne told Dan Ford that as a private, “I felt it would be a waste of time to spend two years picking up cigarette butts. I thought I could do more for the war effort by staying in Hollywood.” Almost all of the stars who served went in the armed forces knowing they would receive officer’s commissions. Most stars in the service found they were relegated to public relations duties out of harm’s way strictly for morale reasons. Adolph Hitler, a huge Clark Gable fan, reportedly put a bounty out for Gable’s capture Both Gable and Jimmy Stewart managed to cajole their way into combat, Gable in charge of a film crew aboard a B-17 and replacing wounded gunners more than once and Stewart flying twenty combat missions as the pilot of a B-24. In 1993 Dan Ford, a decorated Vietnam combat officer, told Wayne biographer Davis, “It must have weighed heavily on him which way to go. But here was his chance and he knew it. He was an action leading man, there were a lot of roles for him to play. There was a lot of work in ”A” movies, and this was a guy who had made eighty “B” movies. He had finally moved up to the first rank. He was in the right spot at the right time with the right qualities and willing to work hard. Would I have done any different? The answer is hell no.” John Wayne’s application to the O.S.S. Then in 2003 the above document surfaced in a National Archives traveling exhibit that at the time stirred no great interest - John Wayne’s application to the O.S.S. On page twenty-three in a Los Angeles Times Magazine article dated September 21, 2003 Coming Soon: Living History On Exhibit are photos of two pages of at least twelve of Wayne’s August 2, 1943 application SA-1, page eleven marked in red pencil at the top “22087.” There is no doubt it is Wayne, he uses his birth name of Marion Robert Morrison, his middle name being changed to Mitchell after the birth of his younger brother Robert and his next of kin is listed as his then estranged wife Josephine Morrison with Mrs. John Wayne in parenthesis. Here for the first time is the first hard evidence that Wayne volunteered for potentially dangerous service with the equivalent of today’s C.I.A., and the papers are not out of someone’s attic, but official government documents. The only way Wayne’s application would have wound up in the National Archives is if it had actually been submitted to the O.S.S. The National Archives was created in 1934 to house and manage all federal records, including documents, photos and film, and now includes well over 4 billion items. According to Roberts and Olson Wayne’s Republic Studios secretary remembered typing a letter in the spring of 1943 inquiring about openings in John Ford’s O.S.S. Photo Unit. A navy official responded in May that the navy and marine allotments for Ford’s unit were filled, but there was room for Wayne in the unit under the army’s allotment. Wayne secured the application and we now know he turned it in. Dan Ford recalled that Wayne told him he had been approved by O.S.S. commander William Donovan to join the Field Photographic Unit, but that the letter went to his estranged wife Josephine’s home and she never told him about it. The National Archives documents list her address as the same address as Wayne’s, the family home at 312 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles. By the summer of 1943 Wayne had moved out and was staying at the famous Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, though he still visited his children at the Highland Avenue home. The dates and sequence of time seem to line up to support Wayne’s story, though additional information is needed to document the last part of the puzzle conclusively. Wayne did do a USO tour in early 1944 in the Pacific and was asked by John Ford to keep his eyes out for O.S.S. commander William Donovan. The Pacific Theater commander General Douglas MacArthur was highly suspicious of the freewheeling O.S.S. and Donovan, who Ford was serving under, wanting to keep them from operating in his area of responsibility. Wayne is quoted in Dan Ford’s book that “I got to go places the average entertainer wouldn’t get to go… but I never did catch up with MacArthur. When I got back to the States I made my report, and they gave me a plaque saying I had served in the O.S.S. But it was a copperhead, something Jack (Ford) had set up. It didn’t mean anything.” When the certificate was sent to Ford’s home to give to Wayne, he didn’t even bother to pick it up and it remained amongst the director’s personal effects until his death. That Wayne acknowledged that the recognition was meaningless, says a great deal, given the bloated egos of many actors, especially today, who are more than willing to exaggerate their own perceived accomplishments far beyond the credible. This also seems to raise doubt that there was any connection between Wayne’s O.S.S. application and the organization’s recognition of his “report” to William Donovan. If Wayne didn’t value the recognition in the first place, why bother to go through a formality to receive it. On that same USO tour Wayne made it to dangerous combat zones where Japanese bombing runs and enemy infiltration occurred routinely. Not really a performer in the singing, dancing or comedy sense, mainly he just talked with regular grunt troops staying up drinking locally brewed “jungle juice” and swapping stories. He brought back vivid stories about these ordinary servicemen, “They’re where 130 degrees is a cool day, where they scrape flies off, where matches melt in their pockets and Jap daisy-cutter bombs take limbs off at the knee. What the guys down there need are letters and snap shots, cigars and lighters, phonograph needles and radios. They need the support and love of Americans back home.” John Wayne was a patriot but not a hero, and he would have been the first to tell anyone that, though his courageous battle with cancer displayed the kind of understated heroics many could relate to. But if you watch some of Wayne’s best films his representation of a hero was certainly of great value and still has great value. He once explained the appeal of his image quite succinctly, “I define manhood simply; men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one.” So here’s one for the “Duke,” he may not have been a military hero, but we now have proof that he did actually volunteer for service in World War II
+john Magill Appreciate the information you posted here. I knew quite a bit about John Wayne, this certainly adds to it. Interesting how many who have never served in the public capacity are quick to jump on the band wagon faulting others for not serving. Hollywood today could do with a few actors who actually have served their country (either in the military, public service (ie, fire, police, etc), instead of "acting" their way through combat. Again, thanks!
John - yes, but idiots like him are just drive-by posters who could care less about the opinions they post and how little they contribute to society. Again, thanks for posting this!
Wow! Thank you John. I feel like I know him a lot better. I didn't know that much about John Wayne but I always loved him. Even off the set he wasn't always perfect but he was humble and forthright, held no punches and had a good sense of humor. Thank you for posting some facts about John Wayne's.
@rubbing2001 , I shalll always recall the first night at boot camp, "Paris Island" as the lights went out all over the camp, and Taps began....I was reminded of that day in December when I was 10 years old ..wanting to be a boy so I could fight for my country. I will be 80 soon, and still proud to have served. Thank you Sgt for your service
Looking at our wonderfulnation in this day and time, I find too many who have no idea the sacrifice that tens of thousands of the Men and Women who have given all for the freedom we enjoy in America today. So sad but true. May God have mercy on our nation in these difficult times of our lack of unity and appreciation of the fallen. I for one am proud of all of those who paid with their lives for that freedom we seem to take for granted. Thanks to all of our armed forces for your service.
My father was Air National Guard for 29 years. My Grandfather Ralph Frisbey was an aircraft mechanic for the navy during the Second World War. My Grandfather Adolf Neumann was part of the German Army during World War II and when he met Ralph he hit it off well. My family history is full of those who served foreign and domestic and those who stain them with their hatred will earn my ire. While I can't join the services I would if I could. I would salute every soldier and servicemen with honor.
There was never born a man who could have said this better than "The Duke" himself. RIP Born Marion Robert Morrison May 26, 1907 Winterset, Iowa, United States Died June 11, 1979 (aged 72) Los Angeles, California, United States
As a child, we grew up on Fort Sam Houston. At the age of 5, I grew up listening to Taps at 2300 EVERY single night, Reville at 0530 EVERY single morning and Retreat at 1700 EVERY single day. Children today know NOTHING about love for their Country....PERIOD!!
I was on a six month tour volunteering to be on the funeral detail at Offutt AFB during my time stationed there. I remember during the funerals, after firing our three volleys, the first two notes of taps sounded out and guaranteed, not a dry eye with any of the mourners. I also remember the family of the deceased would gather up the empty brass casings of the blanks we fired from our M-1's. I would always remember the bugle call, long after my time in the service ended.
I'm 14 and do LOVE this country with all my heart, but i agree with you, most of us dont respect or love America nearly as much as we should, and even the ones my age that do haven't experienced the wars at home as much as anyone that served or even was the family of one who served, and we will ALWAYS remember their service and sacrifice.
Hayden I am a veteran that served away from home, we did it for YOU. My hope is that you have researched our form of government and voted since your 18th birthday!!
We salute you all!! My father was a Korean War veteran as was my uncle Phil, also had 4 other uncles that were WWII veteran's. My Uncle Jack and Uncle Dud were in the navy in the pacific fought off a lot of Japanese attacks, Uncle Jack was on the Missouri. My Uncle Ed was in the Army and served in So. America protecting us in the espionage war with the German's and their allies there, and finally my Uncle Bill was in europe and he survived the battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest.
From Someone who is related to this great man. I'm really happy that he supported the Military. Also because he was a badass. He is one reason why I have decided to enlist into the Marine Corps and be leaving soon to San Diego for basic.
