you are 100% correct, we all have something in common. DD-214 is our bond to each other. even though some of us can’t move like we used to 
. if the call comes in we will serve again. 
WWG1WGA
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I am not a veteran, so thank all veterans for their service. One thing I have noticed all veterans have in common is they are all veterans.
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YOU Sir Robert are a True Wordsmith
and you are my Brother.
I am proud to know you.
WWG1WGA
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“We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks, because we know community banks are in the community, and understand the needs and desires of that community as well as the talent and capacity of community,” 
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KAMEL TOE WHERE YA BEEN? (Yes! it’s a complete sentence!----Sheeeeeeeesh!)
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Scott 52 . WE YOUR NOT SO LUCKY 
SIR I JUST CANT LEAVE YA ALONE KAK I LOVE YA BROTHER .SIR. KAZ YOU ARE ALSOME AND I . Have ya a root beer. 
SIR AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE SIR AND ALL THE REST OF YA YOU ALL ROCK AND ROOL. 
THANK YOU ALL. SIR . MY . BROTHERS. . THANK YOU . SO VERY MUCH AND I AM PROUD OF YOU ALL. VERY. SIR. SIR’S. 
Bobby jean. And Debbie ann. THANK YOU. THANK YOU THANK . I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF TELLING YOU ALL .
THANKYA:heart:
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Munoz
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We didn’t have time for any of that race stuff, we all came from different backgrounds different colors different religions, we were men and women. We all agreed, if the Russians came across the Rhine River we’d stand shoulder to shoulder to slow them down (we knew we couldn’t stop them).
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Mike 164. Shoulder to Shoulder BROTHER. We. ARE GOING TO HAVE TO STOP THIS INVASION. Definitely. WE ARE AMERICANS. I AGREE WITH DONNY WE MY JUST BE OUT OF TIME. For . ANOTHER INVASION ELECTION. WTF .SIR LOVE YOU SIR Bobby jean . Here’s ya a root beer sir WE. HAVE TO CONSERVE . Our supply’s we have to SHARPEN UP. PDQ BROTHER. 
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ROBERT 1246 your a great American sir . Some time I think you are to F.N. Kind. Here’s a root beer for being decent SIR NO WORRIES THERE WILL BE ROOM FOR YOU ON THE LINE OF STAND OUR OUR GROUND. Brother. All . THIS IS SICKENING AND OUR LEADERS HAVE MADE THIS POSSIBLE . What is so wrong is they believe this is their country to give away . This country is not any one’s to give away . Where DID OUR NOT FOR SALE SIGN .GO. BITME. 
ITS IN THE CONSTITUTION . USA. HOME OF THE BRAVE. Love Bobby jean.
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Don102. I am proud of you and thank you for your service .SIR I KNOW YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE IN THE MILITARY TO GET . Sent to places . And you . CAN GET JUST A DEAD AS ANY ONE IN THE MILITARY . THE DIFFERENCE IS YOUR NOT GOING TO GET. TO SAY. YOU WERE IN MILITARY. . I . WAS NEVER IN THE MILITARY. . AND. I AM NEVER LEAVING HOME EVER AGAIN.!! THE ENEMIES ARE HERE IN OUR COUNTRY. Love Bobby jean .
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Mike 164 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE SIR. I AM PROUD OF YOU AND YES SIR YOU ARE A VETERAN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR.SERVICE.SIR . AND EVERYONE THAT HAS SERVED. I .AM PROUD OF ALL OF YOU. LOVE Bobby jean. HERES YA ALL A Root Beer. .THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
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Don102 SIR HELL YES THATS A COMPLEAT SENTENCE . I JUST ASKED Debbie ann and I got slapped the hell out of an I don’t even know what her problem is . Here’s a root beer. Deb does not like camels 
. At all my god what the hell Love Bobby jean sir.
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I have always had a problem with people “thanking me for my service”. I have had several therapists tell me to just say/mumble “thanks” or “you’re welcome”.
I was a combat medic. I lost troupers. I saw really terrible things. Every time someone says “thank you …” I turn my face away and try to hide my tears. I lost my wife and daughter and now my “best friend” because of this. So forgive me if I don’t see any perks.
I have paid for meals, gas in cars, food in grocery stores for first responders, soldiers families, and homeless. l myself just cannot put myself into that category. I survived. I don’t know how or why.
What I hear is not so much “thank you for serving” as “thank you for serving so I did not have to”.
Last night was dinner at the Legion Hall for us “PTSD Survivors”. The discussion got around how the local pain medicine docs are cutting back on our pain scripts. They claim we are just addicted and do not truly need the meds.
I can walk around the grocery store one day a week. I can go to church, with help, twice a week. I cannot sleep without seeing red sticky blood all over me.
I just don’t see any perks, I’m sorry about that.
If someone wants to buy you lunch? Say thank you.
You want to pay for someone’s lunch, then I say thank you.
If you want to abuse this for your own personal gain, then shame on you.
Duty.
Honor.
Integrity.
These are more than just words. These are the foundation of righteousness.
Or did you forget that?
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I am every kind. Just not the murdering kind. I can be kind to the murdering kind by relieving them of their will to murder. That is the simple life I live. As long as our leaders don’t try to stop me from insulting the tub I have to install I’ll be fine. The sooner I get done the sooner I can be on the frontline with ya. Unless my wife needs me for something. She is recovering nicely with her new ankle. Hope all is well with you.
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Welcome Daniel106, I am truly sorry for your troubles. MANY have walked in your boots, it wasn’t easy serving and was even Harder SURVIVING! Survivor’s GUILT is what PTS (It’s NOT a disorder!!) was explained to me by some people I respect and admire. You can’t go through the shite we went through and NOT be affected. It isn’t easy being a Green meanie, a Blue Zoomie, a Jarhead or a squid, a Coastie or any of the other Branches in the Defender’s TREE. Many of my Brothers are gone and sometimes I feel THEY were the lucky one’s.
I was fortunate I got off all pain med’s , the dickin’ around by the White Coats pissed me off. Like ‘Candy salesmen’ ‘Here try this, try that, we’ll double the dosage’ Bastards. And then these same quacks turn around and say ‘You are addicted’ MF’er’s.
I had a real problem with ‘Thank you for your Service Brother. But It’s a nice, respectfully thing for someone to say to you. It’s usually heartfelt and generally they mean well when they said it. Brother Dave17 here said it to me last year when he visited and the look on his face and the tone of the phrase said "Job well done!’
(and that was REALLY cool) You got hit hard by your ‘Service’ I GET THAT. and I am sorry. But I appreciate you and what you did (I hope you can accept that)
As I get older (I’ve said this once before) My Brothers come to me occasionally
for a check up from the neck up. It is a gift that I am grateful to have. They tell me to chill out, chide me a bit for getting down, and just generally bust my balls like we use to when they were on my side of the grass and that is a blessing.
We come at all we’ve been through and view life through different lenses and experiences. IT’S HARD man. Sometimes it sucks royally. But the GOOD DAY’S are a treat that I savor (Like my beloved Waffle’s) 
You EVER need to talk Brother give me a shout out. I will listen (PM me )
Take care my Wounded Warrior, We’re in this together.
Sometimes we cannot accept what we give so freely to others.(i.e: meals, gas, groceries and that’s OK, that’s who you are, it isn’t bad or good–‘It is what it is—don’t be so hard on yourself’—spoken by a guy who use to bang hs head against a wall.
It feels really good when you stop doing that Brother.
Peace Out!
WWG1WGA
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Some of the special treatment I’ve done for vets in my community.
Very well known in my community for the work I’ve done for LEO’s, First Responders and Veterans! And some politicians.
Keep your friends close and…
The work I did was mostly at my own expense and desire to protect,
for life, their sacrifices!
All the material to be framed was dropped and left for Scott to do his thing.
I’m almost famous, I’m the one that designed my local sheriffs department traveling “Wall of Fallen Heroes” .
My work on this was highlighted in Washington DC.
OK, I did receive something for my work, real in depth training with my local sheriffs department SWAT team.
My designs are well thought out.
The two columns represent two things, the number 11 and the Twin Towers. The photos do NO justice to the real size, depth and texture.
None of this is standard operating for most framers! I must have done hundreds of these. I’m extremely proud to give back. I expect nothing in return, all I do is sign my work on the rear.
I’m confident these will pass from generation to generation.
No one knows what they will get back until it’s presented to them. The letters and the tears that have accompanied much of my work is overwhelming.
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Scott 52 that’s ALSOME . Love ya Brother here is a root beer sir . Thank you for your service and all that have GAVE MORE THAN THEY HAD AND WHAT I MEAN IS IF YOU ARE STILL IN PAIN BECAUSE YOU SERVED THATS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT . When you suffer everyday after you get out of the military SIR THAT IS WHAT I CALL GIVING MORE THAN YOU HAD TO GIVE. I have to TAKE Debbie ann to KEMO and we are hoping for the best. I . DEFINITELY KNOW ABOUT GIVING MORE THAN I HAD TO GIVE. .I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. . AND ALL THE PAIN I FEEL IS NOTHING COMPARED TO SEEING Debbie ann fighting for her life . Sir I NEVER HAD THE HONOR TO PUT ON THE UNIFORM. I DID GET TO SERVE. And I GAVE MORE THAN I HAD. . AFTER WHAT I HAVE SEEN I AM SO THANKFUL NO ONE IS THANKING ME. And the pain that I will be in the REST OF MY LIFE. Let’s me know . JUST HOW BLESSED I TRULY AM TO BE HOME. I AM PROUD OF EVERYONE THAT HAS SERVED EVEN. IF THEY NEVER GOT A UNIFORM. SO MANY SERVE AND THEY NEVER . GET TO TELL THE WORLD I WAS . In THE SHITTf. AND THEY NEVER EVER GET THAT THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE . Because you was not there. I KNOW SO MANY . That never get the GLORY . THEY JUST GOT THE PAIN. . Love Bobby jean 
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Scott 52. Just looking at this has made mesmerize that word Sir. So PEACEFUL . I am still just looking at the tribute to the fallen I got lost thinking I was looking at a p38. Can opener!! As I was thinking about Johnny 60 SIR AND THAT DAY . 9.11. When the world stood still. That is so awesome . Thank you SIR. I’m still . Looking at what you did it took me a while to figure out the towers and everything else just came together the work you’re going to be around as long as people can see your beautiful tribute ., custom to the max this is definitely deep. SIR. As I was looking I was thinking about wow how old are you no Dis respect .EVER. I was scared to even ask THANK. YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE …SIR . YOU ARE FAMOUS. Yes SIR. Love Bobby jean.SIR.
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“MASTER PIECES!”
Absolute Works of ART.
What BobbyJean say’s:"
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