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Happy Veterans Day

Gratitude and appreciation mark my feelings for today.

As an Iraq war veteran I want to wish all of my fellow veterans a Happy Veterans Day, be proud of your service to this great nation.

Thank You.

Thank you....you and your service are sincerely appreciated.

Thank you to C-Span for showing the panel from the homeless veteran's summit this morning.

GOD BLESS YA'LL AND THANKS!

So so so very proud to be an American BECAUSE of our Veterans!!!

Thanks to all my family members, who is serviceing our country

Me too I have a father a husband, and a son who served in the Navy and the army. My dad was on the Finback the sub that rescued George H W Bush. My husband was Germany, Greenland and Vieit Nam. My son was a Ranger was in Afghanistan. So thats my story and I think Veterans are a gift and should be treated as such

cannot say thank you enough to all the veterans current and past

thanks vets!!!!!!

Thank you to the vets, but I must say I'm getting kind of weary of the idolizing of the military. These are just people doing the job they signed up for. Most of them are good people, just as most people are good people. Not heroes, just good people doing their job.

So blessed to have Americans that believe in the good fight and are ready to protect our freedoms and liberties...so blessed

I am proud to be a 3rd generation Veteran. I served in the Navy, have a cousin in Air Force, father was a Marine, an uncle was in Army, another uncle was in Navy, and a grandpa who was in the Army. I am proud to have served and am proud of those serving today. GOD BLESS THE USA!!!!

If we have a Veterans Day, shouldn't we also have a Counselors Day and a Doctors Day and a Public Service Day and a Teachers Day and a Clergy Day and a Fire Fighters Day and a day for every other group of people who serve their country and community?

Veterans Day is a special day we reserve to honor those who make a choice to risk life and limb to protect the ideals of American society.The beautiful thing about today is that even if you disagree with it as a holiday,the fact that you live in a country where dissent is allowed is a tribute to those who have fought foriegn powers who reject individual freedoms we take for granted...

No Elissa Bishop-Becker! Veterans are the only group that risk their lives on a daily basis on behalf of the "entire nation"....and the only ones who offer to give their lives to preserve our rights and freedoms. Fireman and policemen, who also risk their lives, work for individual communities and municipalities and are frequently honored in the places where they live and work.

Elissa Bishop-Becker,

If you wish, then you are welcome to honor on Veteran's Day, those who are veterans, and served / are serving as doctors, lawyers, military police, chaplains and assistants, map-makers, engineers, cooks, mechanics, infantrymen, pilots, teachers, trainers, fuel services, paratroopers, air assault, pathfinders, front-forward observers, artillery people, signal people, snipers, decon. units, nuclear personnell, submariners, fire people, mail clerks, supply clerks, maintenance pool people, etc., in any case, if in your mind, this is not good enough, then maybe some of the following holidays will be more to your satisfaction:

National Freedom Day Feb. 1st... See More
St. Joseph's Day March 19
Secretaries Day Wed. of the last full week in Apr.
Labor Day 1st Mon. in Sep.
Boss Day Oct. 16th

Come on...why fight over it?

I assume you guys wish them a Happy Holiday...give it a rest just for the holiday...ok? does it always have to be a fight about everything?

Most people don't really give a shit about VETS they just hop on the bandwagon of well wishers because everyone else is doing it.

Its a sacrifice most of us will never make and one that most of us never forget. God Bless you Veterans.

This comment should shame every person on the Left who demonizes kids who put their lives on the line.

That's you Michael Moore. And millions more.

This comment should shame every person on the Right who demonizes Barack Obama, whose brilliance, substance and dedication are the very best of what America is, just as these poor kids were and those who survive, are.... See More

That's you Lou Dobbs, and TENS of millions more.

Barack took the reigns prematurely, there was NEVER any question about that, the brilliant kid is not chosen as department head or project manager, not because their genius is not recognized or appreciated, but because Management and systems require experience and intellect, even prodigious intellect, cannot replace experience.

But hire him we did, and we all have a stake in the outcome. Year 1, year 2 are the missing places in his resume and the voraciousness of the opposition make this his vulnerable time. He NEEDS the on-the-job training, and we need the benefits of year 3-8 when a guy this brilliant and centered GETS that training. We have to be the antidote to the Tea Party morons, and deliver a better congress to year 3 next November.

Think of what those kids gave up? Is your pride too much to ask?

Thank you!!! For without you, my freedom would only be a dream...You made it a reality since the day I was born!!

Matthew Storey, that's a lot of sanctimonious bs. Everyone needs to be scolded by you, I guess, because only you are right.

BTW...does anyone know what Veterans' Day was called before it was Veterans' Day?

Hint...it happened 91 years ago on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month....

It was called Armistice Day for the armistice signed at the end of WWI. My grandmother used to call it that. . .

might I point out thats what we need now, ajoining together of multi nations to agree upon a common goal of providing infrastructure and civil rights to the people of afghanistan and Pakistan, and to bring to justice Bin Laden, and Justice.

we should build this infrastructure in HONOR of the soldiers on every side of the wars of history, and honor them with Insititues and Intentions of Peace, and BY reinstating and giving to everyone what they have fought for.

LIFE LIBERTY ANd Self Actualiazation, with liberty and Justice for all.

Dawn Young, you sound either naive, or insane, particularly with the following quote: "giving to everyone what they have fought for". Any U.S. Commander in Chief, who would abide by such an action, would be impeached immediately on the grounds of being a traitor, as it has been many nations, and many soldiers outside ourselves, and our allies, ... See Morethat have fought for the destruction of the U.S., and its allies.

It was the Armistice, or the Treaty of Versaille, I might add, which placed such severe economic sanctions on Germany, that it drove the German population into starvation, famine, and into the impossibility of anyone being able to afford the meal, that they ate in a restraunt: it would cost, say, ten dollars at the start, and 100 dollars at the end of the meal. Inflation rose by the second. Yes, they had a market crash due to theft; however, many concede--the Armistice drove Germany into such deprivation, that abortions were procured; euthanasia was practiced, and families were planned: simply as a matter of economic survival on the part of an entire nation, that's what is so disgusting about Nancy Pelosi's, Catholic Social Justice, Health Care Reform--it places us in the position of being so economically depraved, that we can neither care for ourselves, nor others, without Federal gov. intervention.

Let me end by saying, it is foolish to honor those soldiers, and to provide to those governments, that have fought for our destruction, and the destruction of our allies--it's traitorous and subversive!

The Armistice came into existence seven mos. before the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaty of Versailles is what is attributed with having driven Germany after W.W. I, into economic ruin. Some of what I wrote is based on what has been written in encyclopaedias, in addition to what I recall people telling me, while I grew-up as a boy, and as a teenager, etc..

I watched portions of Washington Journal this morning, and I came away from it, thinking: maybe Nancy Pelosi's Health Care Reform Bill is less than disgusting, but I, admittedly, favor a medical industry, all of it, dominated by private business. An overly simplistic view? Probably.

The proposal for health care reform, is estimated at a cost of 1.5 trillion US dollars. We have approx. 154 million employed outside government institutions. It would take between 800 to 900 US dollars, each month, for one year, from each of those 154 million to obtain an equivalent amount to 1.5 trillion USD.

The medical industry is approx. 1/6 of our economy: approx. 2 trillion USD, or 3,560 from 21,587 USD as per capita income (1999). The median income of 2007: 50,740 USD. How many employed people do we have in the US, and its territories, that have incomes, which can stand to have 800-900 USD per mo. going into health insurance, for over 304 million US citizens, and those of US territories? If it were feasible, the government could subsidize the remaining 500 billion, then this would reduce Nancy Pelosi's Health Care Reform Bill by 1 trillion. Furhtermore, employment might increase within the medical industry, in private sectors, profit, or non-profit. Building castles on foundations of sand? Join the federally subsidized medical industry. Annually, it seems, federal spending is above 2.5 trillion USD.... See More

What is the point? In overtly simple, mathematical terms, we have to be able to afford medical insurance nationwide, and for our territories, for those unable to afford it: it's a goal, more enjoyable than the space race of the 1960's; we're trying to out-do ourselves. :-)

Thank God for our vets....
Support them by deeds and not just words...

Americans need to be thankful everyday for our Military they volunteer to serve and protect the USA. I have serveral family members since 1950's both men and women who have servered in Marines, Air Force, Army and National Guard they were glad to serve and protect us. They served in different wars and risk their lives and died for our Freedom.
This why we have so many foreigner's who come to America so they can have our Freedoms and want to become citizens.