# Veterans Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327 "2015-11-11T21:27:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/1 "2015-11-11T21:27:03Z")
My heartfelt thanks to all of those, Doper and otherwise, who have served in the United States armed forces. I think at this time about my father (U.S. Army vet) and father-in-law (U.S. Navy vet) in particular. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/2 "2015-11-11T21:37:09Z")
I give thanks to my hubby, six years in the Navy. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/3 "2015-11-11T21:49:06Z")
To all the vets, thank you for your service. All the Vets from WWI are now gone and those from WWII are now few in numbers. I did my service in peace, the end of the Cold War in the Navy. I was never in harm’s way or at risk. My grandfather and many great uncles served in various capacities during WWII and my father was in the Air Force during Korea but not in Korea. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/4 "2015-11-11T21:58:54Z")
I have ancestors who survived King Philip’s War, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. I appreciate the fact that they survived so that I could prattle on about them. Oddly enough, I have no predecessors who served in WWI, WWII (other than my stepfather) or Korea. My brother was given a National Defense Ribbon because he joined the Army right at the tail end of the Korean War campaign period, which means he never saw the place. I did my time in RVN and have never bothered the VA for anything other than a zero-down mortgage, and some tuition costs. I’ve never felt the need for thanks and am not comfortable with it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/5 "2015-11-11T22:03:37Z")
My dad: Army, radio operator in Vietnam My uncle: Army, MP in Vietnam My grandpa: Army, tank driver in WWII My grandma: Army, WAC in WWII My cousin: Army, Iraq My step dad: Army, Korea-era Amazing individuals, every one. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/6 "2015-11-12T03:38:33Z")
Great-great-great grandfather Civil War-Union Great-great grandfather Civil War-Union Father Korean War thank God he never went to Korea-US Army Uncle Korean War he also didn’t get sent to Korea-US Airforce Me Korea, US Army 1974-77 98G2LKP in Korea in 1976 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/7 "2015-11-12T03:49:58Z")
My Dad’s uncle, Patrocinio Pablo, a US Navy Pearl Harbor survivor who was on the USS Arizona on 07 Dec 1941. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/8 "2015-11-12T04:09:48Z")
great-great-great grandfather 45th NY Volunteer Infantry 1861-1862 Permanently disabled from tuberculosis caught in POW camp great-great grandfather 2nd NY Heavy Artillery 1861-1864 Second Bull Run, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. Captured and died of scurvy in Andersonville Prison Camp great-great grandfather 25th NY Volunteer Cavalry 1864-1865 Shenandoah Valley great-grandfather 69th Infantry Regiment, NY 1892-1893 great-uncle 105th Machine Gun Regiment, 1917-1918 Ypres-Lys, Hindenberg Line Permanently disabled from poison gas father USS Eldorado 1944-1945 Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Philippines nephew USAF Intelligence 2006-2010 Korea nephew 10th Mountain Division 2011-2014 Ft. Drum, NY ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/9 "2015-11-12T04:17:37Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > My Dad’s uncle, Patrocinio Pablo, a US Navy Pearl Harbor survivor who was on the USS Arizona on 07 Dec 1941. My dad’s uncle, [Capt. Chaplain Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick](http://chaplaincorps.navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/12/05/honoring-the-legacy-of-chaplain-kirkpatrick-and-chaplain-schmitt-on-the-72nd-anniversary-of-pearl-harbor/), was on _Arizona_. He was killed at his duty station. [My dad](https://www.flickr.com/photos/27492458@N05/2577222254/). Army Signal Corps at the end of WWII, Combat Aircrew in the Navy during Korea, a communications officer in the 7th Fleet’s flagship, USS _Oklahoma City_ (CLG-5) and ASW through the '60s. My uncle, dad’s youngest brother, a Navy chief. (He was born December 7th --or thereabouts – 1941. His middle name came from the Chaplain.) My wife, U.S. Army, Black Hawk pilot, 101st Airborne, Iraq War. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/10 "2015-11-12T04:23:27Z")
I hope I’m not hijacking a perfectly good thread, but on this date I like to appreciate Coldfire’s thread of momentous importance. I cant seem to find the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/11 "2015-11-12T04:32:03Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I hope I’m not hijacking a perfectly good thread, but on this date I like to appreciate Coldfire’s thread of momentous importance. > > I cant seem to find the OP. [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/12 "2015-11-12T04:55:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=23572) Thank you. I tear up every time I read that, year over year. Thank you Coldfire. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day/737327/13 "2015-11-12T04:58:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > great-great-great grandfather > 45th NY Volunteer Infantry 1861-1862 > Permanently disabled from tuberculosis caught in POW camp > > great-great grandfather > 2nd NY Heavy Artillery 1861-1864 > Second Bull Run, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. > Captured and died of scurvy in Andersonville Prison Camp > > great-great grandfather > 25th NY Volunteer Cavalry 1864-1865 > Shenandoah Valley > > great-grandfather > 69th Infantry Regiment, NY 1892-1893 > > great-uncle > 105th Machine Gun Regiment, 1917-1918 > Ypres-Lys, Hindenberg Line > Permanently disabled from poison gas > > father > USS Eldorado 1944-1945 > Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Philippines > > nephew > USAF Intelligence 2006-2010 > Korea > > nephew > 10th Mountain Division 2011-2014 > Ft. Drum, NY Hey, my great grandfather was with the 23rd NY Volunteers, Company K. He was captured at 2nd Bull Run. He may have chatted with your ancestor at the latrine. 🙂