My dad was injured in the Korean war, he lost a finger. But it still pays him $65.00 a month and it paid for him to get a full ride to any college- he choose Georgetown.
My hubby said Grenada was a big joke- they ran from them!
I'm so happy for your Dad, Ruby. I won't go into too many details, but my husband hasn't received many of the benefits that they promise in their commercials. His GI bill got him 2 years at a technical school, and the only on the job training he has is as a navigator or flight controller, which hasn't really helped out much.
They don't make them very easy to pursue, so it probably wasn't much of a loss for him. In fact, my husband used up his GI bill on schooling for a profession that he never went into (and that I could never see him in). Now that he finally knows what he wants to be when he grows up, there's no money left to go back to school. We're looking into other options with scholarships, grants, loans, and seeing how the American Legion can help though. He should also probably be getting some disability, but since he didn't get any obvious wounds, they denied that too.
My husband used the military to get out of Ohio and away from his parents. It taught him good ethics though. I think he messed up not going for anything, but he is not a school person. That is the irony of relationship- I am totally a school person? Oh well- opposites attract!
I had a friend that went into the Army after he finished his culunary degree at Johnson & Wales in Rhode Island. They promised him all sorts of things, one of which was his future in intelligence. He spent the first two years doing construction work - he was in the operating engineers. While he was doing this, he was trying to get into the program they promised him. It ticked someone off and they sent him to Korea for a year. That did't stop him and when he returned to the States they finally put him into the correct program. But it really did take a lot of fighting on his part.
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My husband went because he didn't know what to do after high school. He failed his senior english class (not because he couldn't, but because he is stubborn), and had no direction. His dad was in the air force, so he decided to get his GED and go into the Navy while he figured out what to do with his life. 4 years later, he was in the reserves, but other than that, he kind of just picked something out of the air to study that really didn't suit him.
We live in a multicultural society. So may I ask, with the greatest hope of offending no one.
I have a neighbor that NEVER flies a flag. Today, a flag is flying and it is not the Stars and Stripes. Now I have an Italian Flag that I display proudly, from time to time, to show my heritage, however, it is below Old Glory, and Old Glory is 3X the size. There is no question as to my patriotism. As many of you know I come from a long line of soldiers and public servants, grandpa even being a Senator.
I am deeply offended and yes, even outraged. Am I wrong in this. It is all I can do to keep from going over there and ripping it down.
Maybe he's showing his respect to the veterans from his own country that he is remembering today. What flag is he flying?
There's also a lot of people who are angry at the current administration, and they have a hard time realizing the difference between the government and the soldiers. I'm not saying that's right, but I don't think they realize the injustice they're doing. I live in a college town, there are many of these people here. They'll protest about everything, they claim that they are the only ones supportive of others, but the are just as stubborn, if not more so, than the extreme conservatives.
You are probably very correct. See why I am envious? I took it to mean a slam against the US. I just hear many people here speak poorly of our country, and highly of theirs, but then I ask myself why they don't go back. Again, you can tell that patriotism strikes a very delicate and volitile chord in me.
Veterans day can be for any soldier, not just US ones.
And even if this is a radical protester just trying to piss someone off, by getting angry about it you give them the pleasure of affecting at least one person. Let it go and assume the best.
