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Veterans Day Here In the US - Thank You!

  1. X350 XJR Vintage Omega Aficionado Nov 11, 2013

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    Thank you to any veterans here or abroad, without your service our world may look very different, and not in a good way!

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  2. UncleBuck understands the decision making hierarchy Nov 11, 2013

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    Thanks, Norm
    We all wrote a blank check for our countries. Fate filled in the amount.
    There is no reason we can't all be as one.

    Buck
    U.S. Army '71-'72
     
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  3. MyVintageOmega Nov 11, 2013

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  4. JimInOz Melbourne Australia Nov 12, 2013

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    Yesterday was Remembrance Day in Aussie and most Commonwealth countries.

    A day to think of all the good times I had and more importantly, remember those mates of mine that didn't come home.

    Cheers
    Jim

    Australian Navy 1964/1969 - Australian Air Force 1969/1996
     
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  5. alam Nov 11, 2019

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    Happy Veterans Day! 11/11/2019

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  6. gostang9 Nov 11, 2019

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    A very special day in Canada where we honour the fallen and remember the many sacrifices made.

    We learn "In Flanders Field" and it is a very fitting tribute on this day. We also wear red poppies as a symbolic remembrance.

    I never served, and I feel the deepest gratitude to all who did or are serving still.

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  7. alam Nov 11, 2019

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    and btw, let’s remember the difference [in the U.S.]

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  8. Njnjcfp88 Nov 11, 2019

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    B86D866E-E756-4C0E-8BBB-2411854311CA.jpeg Happy Vets to my fellow OF vets and a belated happy 244th USMC birthday. Here’s a pic of me in my last month in the Marines. Oct 1982- Quantico had a big athletic event in which our team MCAF ( HMX-1) finished for a silver.
     
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  9. UncleBuck understands the decision making hierarchy Nov 11, 2019

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    Which are you?
    I think the watch up front may be a Seiko 6139 but wondering what the Officer was wearing?
     
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  10. Bill Sohne Bill @ ΩF Staff Member Nov 11, 2019

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    Hi

    here is a pic of my dad turning 95 this week ..... he was in WWII....

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    After the war he became a successful business man ... had two business trips to Tokyo in the 1970s. He bought two Seiko a one on each trip .... a 17 j bellmatic which I left with a watchmaker in the 90s and forgot to get back .....

    And a Speedtimer .... 6138-0030 which I still have !
    And was wearing yesterday and this am ...

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    Good hunting
    Bill
     
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  11. Njnjcfp88 Nov 11, 2019

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    dunno. I can’t even remember what I was wearing.
     
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  12. mydeafcat Nov 11, 2019

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    In March/April 2015, I went to Belgium to watch the Spring Classics pro cycling races taking place across Belgium, primarily in Flanders. Of course, I had to stop at a local war cemetery to pay my respects to those Canadians who paid the ultimate sacrifice - one that allowed me to make this journey 100 years later. With the exception of the souls buried there I had Tyne Cot cemetery to myself. It was a cold wet, miserable night, but nothing like the horrific conditions experienced by the Canadians fighting for Passchendaele ridge. I went to Passchendaele the next day and couldn't believe it: the 'ridge' this memorial stood on was little more than a diminutive hill, below which are fields filled with lowing cattle. (THIS was the valley so many died and suffered in? FFS. We've learned nothing, I might add.)

    In the town of Ypres nearby, where battles and mustard gas took their grisly toll, every night of the year at precisely 8pm veterans and the public gather at The Menin Gate for The Last Post, honoring those who served and died in WW1. This crowd was comprised of tourists from the UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Canada, the USA, Australia, India, Italy....the entire world. As you see here, the number of names of the dead, etched forever into the walls of the Menin Gate, almost beggars belief.

    The Belgians remember, and not just on November 11th, but Every. Single. Day.

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