Remembering Those Who Gave Their Lives

Remembering Vetter’s Vandals on Memorial Day 2024
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[@Moss500.]

I was taught as a kid to always respect all servicemen and law officers. I was raised with military men as my hero's. Even as a kid I was taught to acknowledge the troops. In the 70s and 80s we always thanked and talked to the Nam vets. My moms uncle Robert drove a truck in Pattons red ball express. and was 6 trucks from him when The Gen stood on a truck and gave a talk to the men. Uncle robert shot a frenchman in the leg for stealing his clothes off a line. The Army made him pay 1 dollar for the bullet he wasted and give the frenchman a carton of smokes. He also just miss getting killed in a German plane strafing run on a convoy. He was at the Remagen bridge 6 days after it was destroyed. the pontoon brideg the Army made would sink down and only 6 trucks could be on it. The water would come up to the door. My brother was in Korea during Nam he was on a honest john missile crew. My Cousin was Navy during Nam on the USS Ranger carrier. The Viet patrol boats would try to attack them and the destroyers would sink em. My dads side was killed in WW2 one in the Ardennes offensive and one in training. The ony one that lived was Navy in the pacific. I was in the Army as a 19kilo . A crewmen on the M-1 tank. So thanks for posting something for the brave American Servicemen.

[@erolkavlakverizon6112]

Three of my neighbors are Vietnam veterans. One was a helicopter pilot, one a tunnel rat, and one an infantry man. All made it back. Two died here because of agent orange cancer. One is still with us.

[@tylermorrison7051]

Some guys i went to school with lost their father in 1986. Agent orange. Thankfully, my girlfriend's father is still with us. As a combat engineer (Tet Offensive 1968), he was exposed to agent orange. Overall, he's doing pretty well.

[@Paladin1873]

Growing up in north Florida in the 1950s and 60s I remember most of the men in our town were WWII or Korean War vets. My best friend's Dad was a paratrooper who lost a leg on D-Day. He became entangled in a tree and had to feign death when a German patrol came around. One of the Germans wasn't convinced, so he fired a shot that hit his leg. Hours later a medic treated him, but the leg could not be saved. In retrospect I guess he came out of the war better than your late great uncle. Today is a good day to remember and honor them all. It is such a small thing, but terribly important. Never forget.

[@MichaelSisley-fw3xr]

My Dad was a young Sea Bee in the Pacific in WW2. My grandmother said it changed him. He never talked about it much, not many of that generation did. He operated a dozer to fix the airfields on different islands. I spent 28yrs in the Army. I remember every time I ever deployed I would call my Dad before I left, and he would always end with "do your best". In 2004 I had just come back to the states and Dad was near the end. I took leave to be with him. We played 6 holes of golf riding in his cart. He felt tired so we stopped. Two days later he was gone. Our last conversation he said he knew I did my best and he was proud of me. That generation was tough. They did their best. So many did not come back. Memorial Day, the day we remember those who gave their lives in service to our country, may we never forget. I feel lucky, blessed my Dad came back or I would not have been here. Memorial Day is a sobering and somber day in my household. It is not a day of super sales, partying, or frivolity. To all the folks who have lost someone in military service, I pray God is with you helping you through it.

[@matthewrobinson4323]

This is your best video ever. Thank you. USN 1964-1968 Da Nang Vietnam 1966, and then U.S.S. John R. Craig 1967-1968. Just after Christmas, 1967 we departed San Diego to proceed to the gun line in the Tonkin Gulf. Enroute, the U.S.S. Pueblo was taken by the North Koreans, and we were diverted up to the Sea of Japan to await further developments. In addition to the worst cold weather I've ever experienced (and I'm originally from NYC), the Soviet navy was there. We played chicken with them for 2 or 3 months, and then proceeded to the Vietnamese coast to provide close in naval gunfire support for our guys ashore. We exchanged an awful lot of fire with the enemy. I think we fired 3 -5000 rounds in about 3 months. I know we were taking on 5 inch ammunition every 2 or 3 days.

[@johnelder4273]

By some miracle all the Korean War Veterans and Viet Nam and Iraqi War vetetans in our family (that I'm aware of) came home alive, although one of my nephews nearly died after being shot by a sniper in Iraq. We have been very blessed. Thanks for sharing your family's stories. God Bless you and yours.

[@TheWalkWithAl]

Greg thank you my friend for remembering those who gave it all 👍👍👍🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@pedroemilio7592]

Thank you for sharing this story Greg , God bless

[@sombra6153]

Thanks Greg for sharing this story about your family’s sacrifice for our freedom. May your great uncle rest in peace. My great uncles who served in WWII all came home, but my granddad told me about his cousin, PFC Robert C Taylor, USMC, who was aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor and did not make it home to grow old. God rest all the souls of those throughout the generations who never made it home.

[@Gumby56]

A very heartfelt story, thank you for sharing. I feel for his widow, it must have torn her heart out.

[@edwardpetty5401]

🙏🙏🙏 for all of them. Thank you for sharing.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Thank you for honoring them.

[@hessdefense]

Thanks to these great men, some of whom are my family members, I've never been cold. I've never been hungry. And I've never been in danger. God Bless the AMERICAN GI.

[@terrybarnes0712]

Great video Greg Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@keithgregory7937]

We don't know them all but we owe them all.

[@dangerman007]

Greg, thank you for sharing your family story with us. I would like to honor my father's cousin Clifford. He was a regular infantry soldier in Vietnam who was sent out on patrol at night and stepped on a land mine and lost his legs. He survived the war, only to get robbed and murdered later in life. I was born right after his wounding when they weren't sure if he would survive, and my parents gave me my middle name in his honor. Later in life I was befriended by a green beret vet who gave me a Montagnard bracelet. The meaning of that bracelet is that you are brothers. Sadly, my friend and I lost touch, and the brass ring bracelet he gave me ended up breaking. Amazingly, I found another Montagnard bracelet with the name Clifford engraved on it. Needless to say, I bought it and now I never take it off.

[@fbweaver63]

thank you for sharing.

[@BillAlexander-cv6oj]

Thank you for sharing your families story, many unsung heros from WWII, My father was a Army Medic during WWII and served in the South Pacific, my Family is a Military History With Marines Sailors and Air Men and Army....to much to mention and covering three Wars..Again have a Blessed and Thoughtful Day...Semper Fi

[@terryschiller2625]

Hi Greg, I don't have any stores to share. My dad was in the Pacific theater, and my his brothers were both in the European theaters. All made it out of WW2 and came home. They never talked about the war. But like you said Sir "freedom isn't free!" I am grateful for there's ultimate sacrifice so that we all can live our life in freedom. God bless the vet's

[@billholmgren551]

Hope you and your family are having a blessed holiday! ✊️🇺🇸

[@mrbottomfeeder]

Thank you Greg for sharing your story. From another old Navy vietnam vet. That was on one of those flat bottom boats. 🙏

[@mikereese15]

God bless our troops past and present❤

[@tomcarr4630]

Beautiful presentation, Greg!

[@Machi74005]

I believe those earlier teams were called "Frogmen". Thank You for sharing.

[@toddcox8436]

Thenk you for sharing this

[@ThecrazyScotsman]

Appreciate you sharing this story with us these hero's deserve to have their stories past on. God Bless Him, you and God Bless America!

[@3Pillers]

“Let us honor those who died to protect our freedom by living to protect our freedom.” Unknown author.

[@CyborgZeta]

It's important to honor all the people who served, regardless of your opinion on a particular conflict. I'm saying this as someone who came of age at the end of the Dubya years. The number of graves of men who died young in war is far too many. The least we can do is show them respect.

[@LionquestFitness]

Amen

[@podsmpsg1]

RIP. Thank you to all.

[@stevelewis1221]

Great story Greg. Thanks for sharing. My Uncle Rosario, who I never met, died on a US ship in the South Pacific. I believe it was 1944. I have the name of the ship, but don't remember it off the top of my head.

[@marciocumpiancumpian2075]

Boa noite meu amigo americano. Que Deus acolha esses heróis, que história linda do seu tio. Meu padrinho de batismo Primo Paulocci também lutou na segunda guerra mundial, esteve em combate na Itália,na tomada do Monte Castelo, foi ferido e retornou ao Brasil onde viveu com minha tia até os 90 anos aproximadamente. Tantos lutaram, perderam suas vidas pelas futuras gerações e poucas gerações agradecem esses verdadeiros HEROIS.

[@jackk6966]

Thanks for the excellent presentation. My great uncles were there at D-Day. The country needs to honor all veterans and respect why they fought. Always review your posts. They are great. Thx.

[@LionquestFitness]

Thanks.

[@dano1956]

Great video Greg.

[@EricDaMAJ]

One of my soldiers was SSG David Paquet. He served in my Headquarters Battery convoy security team, picked troops selected for convoying senior officers and VIPs around Iraq 3 or 4 times a week. He was just one of 200+ officers and enlisted, men and women over whom I supposedly had authority. Though were really all broken up into various bureaus and teams commanded by field grade officers and senior NCOs that outranked me. Paquet proved an odd duck. The senior NCOs running the team had second thoughts about him. I could feel sometimes they were on the verge of removing him. But "The Reapers" were very good/lucky at convoys. They never suffered an incident or casualty. SSG Paquet stayed with them til we redeployed and PCS'd to another unit. Deployed soldiers were supposed to stay stateside for a year. A rough year constantly training for the next deployment but with some vacation and time with their family. However, in the arbitrary unfairness of wartime, SSG Paquet redeployed to Afghanistan only 6 months after we returned. Where he keeled over and died on a patrol. The cause of his death remains undetermined. Afghanistan is hard to explain to an American or anyone from a first world country. It's the ass end of nowhere - filthy, dusty, and disgusting. The Afghans are primitive on barely comprehensible levels. Every stereotype about backwoods hillbillies is dialed up to a 100 there - racism, illiteracy, wife beating, incest, etc. Even other Moslems hold them in contempt. That's where SSG Paquet died. He didn't die a heroic death in some decisive battle in a war to determine America's survival. He passed away on a boring patrol in the middle of nowhere in a war few who didn't wear a uniform will remember in a decade. Whatever faults my senior NCOs felt he had, real or imagined, he served honorably til the end. He went where no sane person would want to go just to die for a reason so obscure even with our advanced forensic skills we can't tell why. I don't think of SSG Paquet much. But when I do it's on Memorial Day.

[@LionquestFitness]

A very Heartfelt tribute. My respect. Afghanistan was a rough deployment. One of my former law enforcement students did two tours there as infantry. He came to see me after the first tour and everything you said was corroborated and then some. It was a nasty place for an eighteen year old to come of age; even one who had grown up rough himself.

[@bobhartman2571]

Thank you, Greg. From an old Nam vet.

[@LionquestFitness]

Thank you Bob. Just know I've always had a great deal of respect for you and your opinions. You've kept me between the ditches a time or two here on KZbin.

[@la_old_salt2241]

Welcome home Bob. Rob USNR 1987-1995

[@tylermorrison7051]

Thank you, sir.

[@davidgalloway6414]

Private Alfred L. Galloway, Alpha Company 15th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division WWll. K.I.A. 22 December 1944 in the " Colmar Pocket". My Uncle.

[@tylermorrison7051]

I know opinions vary about which conflicts the U.S. should've participated in or not, but remembering those who lost their lives is of the utmost importance. My mom's mother (who died 3 and half years ago) had a cousin, Quinton, who served during WW II. He was a B-24 Liberator crewmember. He and the rest of the crew lost their lives in the Pacific theater.

[@theepicgamerultimate4831]

The photograph in the beginning of this video, it says Fort Pierce, Florida, its in St. Lucie County, that's where I started my 2nd career as a Deputy Sheriff at the courthouse. After my first career as a Deputy Sheriff in Broward County Florida where I was assigned to he crack cocaine enforcement unit, needless to say my 2nd stint at the courthouse was a relief.

[@SheepDog44]

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[@Pointblank2U]

Hi Greg, I sent you an email with a photo of Harold's grave marker.

[@LionquestFitness]

Thank my friend.

[@lesgillard985]

Hi Greg, down here we celebrate ANZAC DAY, for the same reason. I have to say that in the last few years there has been more celebrations then the previous 10 years. It's great to see 🎉 The *WOKE MOVEMENT* , in the opinion of many, were responsible for the decline of remembering our Fallen servicemen. Some even wanted to cancil it. Things have changed😊. Best wishes and condolences to all who lost family and friends in any war.

[@LionquestFitness]

Thank you Les.

[@lesgillard985]

@@LionquestFitness Greg... no one wins in a war. All sides loose, in my opinion.

[@LionquestFitness]

@@lesgillard985 Very true.

[@Paladin1873]

@@lesgillard985 Some lose more than others.

[@lesgillard985]

@Paladin1873 sadly mate, you are correct 😔

[@yuvgotubekidding]

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