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TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Nov 11, 2012 - 08:42pm PT
Thanks!

To both of you.

SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Nov 11, 2012 - 08:51pm PT
‎"They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."

"Lest we forget"

For the Fallen
Lawrence Binyon 1914

So giving.....


Susan
dogtown

Trad climber
Cheyenne, Wyoming and Marshall Islands atoll.
Nov 11, 2012 - 09:28pm PT

U.S. Army, 1st of the 9th air mobile Crew chef
1970-73
Fort Ord, California

Vietnam, Central highlands
Guangzhou

Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
Nov 11, 2012 - 09:55pm PT
Not sure this is good OPSEC, but here goes. Wink Wink

Okay.. here's the way to do this
Name:
Emmanuel Lacoste
Branch of Service:
U.S. Army, Infantry.
Years of Service:
5 years
Where you Basic trained:
Georgia, Benning
Where you were stationed:
Germany, 1-4 Infantry.
KY/TN 101 Airbone.

If in a war where?Bold Text

No real wars, spent a long time wearing a blue hat in Haiti. Main mission was protecting the new president.

We must never forget the sacrifices made by those who served.Bold Text

I agree, but just as important, many were sacrifice who didn't officially serve. Some were just at the wrong place when problems started, others took it on themselves to do their part to end the war. (French Resistance comes to mind.)

Thank you Soldiers!
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Nov 13, 2012 - 03:22am PT
I'm all for appreciating what veterans go through, and support them getting the best treatment from our system when they return from war. Still...

Maybe it’s time to get more real about the military and veteran’s day. We’ve been trained by our culture to idolize soldiers. Somehow we’re supposed to tell ourselves that they are our greatest citizens. We’re never supposed to call for cuts in military spending, even as we shut off funds to the poor and helpless within our borders.

Of course when a government wants to recruit people to risk death and dismemberment in foreign lands that propose little or no threat to country, they have to pay them lip service. These soldiers are also used as a political shield so the questionable reasons for war are not questioned. Somehow we weren’t supporting our troops if we called for them to return from a lame and useless war in Iraq. The troops, of course, aren’t allowed to call for their own return. We have to do it!

Very few people join the military for self-less sacrificing service to our country, and our country is in zero danger of invasion by other lands. Once someone joins the military they may have an opportunity for heroic action for the sake of others, or also for the most depraved insults to human life and dignity. Many of the worst crimes against humanity in history have been committed by soldiers, sometimes at the request of superiors and politicians, but sometimes by the fog of war which corrupts the better angels of individuals.

So my heart goes out to those people who gone in the military and suffered death, injury or trauma thinking it was for a good cause, whether it was or not. I salute those soldiers who have done heroic deeds that saved comrades, or even better, innocent civilians.

But don’t ask me for blind adoration of the military, it’s actions, or use soldiers as a cover to gain support for the military. I don’t buy it. We need a worldwide transformation to make militaries irrelevant, smaller, and eventually unneeded. Our weapons get more and more powerful and we risk killing ALL of each other or being suppressed by robot drones from all knowing governments.

My heroes fight for peace.
steveA

Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
Nov 13, 2012 - 08:14am PT
Steve Arsenault
Army-Sgt.
1967-70
Vietnam -23 months-Central Highlands
2 purple hearts
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 13, 2012 - 09:14am PT
Good post Karl, but possibly not the best place for it.

Although, freedom of speech and all...

You probably bought the thread some added life.
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Nov 13, 2012 - 10:53am PT
I salute all those who serve in uniform with honor and integrity.

This weekend I went to NYC despite the iffy nature of a recovering disaster area to attend the memorial service of my friend Luce who, among many other fine efforts in life, served during WWII as an airplane mechanic with the Army Air Corps on Guam.

On the flight back yesterday I sat amidst a sea of DMAT personnel returning home after 2 weeks service to Sandy victims.

Although I get a little nervous about Homeland Security having a uniformed army these guys are in the business of saving lives and were to a man (and woman) obviously committed medical people. So lets not forget the service people (like the Coast Guard as well) who are less combat oriented.
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Nov 13, 2012 - 11:35am PT
2 yrs of service in the Army
One of the 1st in the Volunteer Army

Basic training - Fort Polk Louisiana

AIT - Ft. Rucker Alabama - Air Traffic Control

Viet Nam ERA veteran that spent my whole tour doing enroute control on a mountaintop in Southern South Korea (microwave relay station called Brooklyn Site) If any of you chopper pilots out there were stationed in Korea from 74 to 76, my callsign was Mike Sierra

Roger Brown

climber
Oceano, California
Nov 13, 2012 - 12:07pm PT
Gunners Mate First Class
Boot Camp San Diego
Gun School North Chicago
USS Lawrence-Destroyer-East Coast-Europe
USS Hull-Destroyer-Naval Gunfire Support-DMZ Vietnam
USS Benewah-River Assault Group One-Vietnam Delta
5 Years, 7 Months, 19 Days
Don Paul

Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
Nov 13, 2012 - 12:10pm PT
We’ve been trained by our culture to idolize soldiers. Somehow we’re supposed to tell ourselves that they are our greatest citizens.

Right on Karl. Anyone joining the US military in recent times knows EXACTLY what they're signing up to do. And I'm totally against it. Dont want to hear any nonsense about PTSD and how war wasn't as glorious as you'd hoped.

On the other hand, I can forgive people who joined out of patriotism, and claim to have been duped. But those who say they joined because they had no other option because the economy is bad - well, I wouldn't kill people for money, and none of them are as poor as their victims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MikeL

climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
Nov 13, 2012 - 12:42pm PT
One of my little sisters in Iraq:


I appreciate Karl's sentiments. Pain and suffering might seem stupid, but there's hardly any getting around it here in this plane of existence. Many things can be criticized; war and the services as extensions of the politic are among the many.

Veterans Day is also for veterans (as well as for civilians who think it's their duty to back the men and women who are sent into harm's way to do their bidding).

There is little that can be compared to the feelings of community, honor, and duty in a band of brothers and sisters in combat. War and the sense of death all around you brings a clarity about living that might only be approached in climbing, police and fire work, and maybe in critical health care. While you're in those situations, you can hate it, sure, but the experiences can leave a lasting mark on a person that frames the rest of his or her life. Many things are like that, and they are neither good nor bad.

By the way: there really are people who join up because they want to get involved for what they think are larger purposes than material needs. My sister did. Me . . . I wanted to see what I was made of.
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Nov 13, 2012 - 12:56pm PT
I think the military was the perfect thing to get me to grow up. First they kicked my butt, then they gave me responsibility, that's just what a young man (or woman) needs. I'm not saying everybody has to get it that way, but it was the right thing at the right time for me.

Hmmm, I need to give my 22yr old son a call (although he's already more motivated than I was).
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Nov 13, 2012 - 01:50pm PT
Coz wrote

Thanks for the typical sanctimonious crap Karl.

This thread is to honor vets. Who do fight for peace and freedoms, the very ones u enjoy.

Shameful!

Thanks to my parents who served.
All the team guys I've train the last 25 years and to all those currently in uniform u are hero's and a grateful nation thanks you.

You can thank me for bumping this thread, which I had to pull up from page three. I agree about our parent's service. WW2 was about the last war that had anything to do with protecting America's freedom, although Korea could be perhaps justified as protecting the Korean's freedom.

after that, the veterans have my compassion as victims of our government, not because they are truly fighting for freedom, because they aren't.

And I'd like to see any evidence to the contrary. So why continue this myth that soldiers are these heroes sacrificing themselves so we can be free? It's now a lie and making this our societies narrative only allows the politicians to have cover for stupid wars while getting poor kids to volunteer for something that can rip their lives apart while doing us no good.

It has to stop. Even Afghanistan was a total sham and waste of time. The hijackers were Saudi and the money came from there too. As soon as we leave, the place is going right back to hell and isn't good now.

So stop it. I'm sorry for the state of veterans in this country and do not seek to blame them. They are victims of our corrupt government and military industrial complex. But the guys I know who joined the service did so because they wanted to kick ass, not to save the world, and the guys who joined the service that others tell me about, joined because of the socialistic style benefits that the service provides... subsidized housing, food, health care, and college.

So why do we need a special category of honoring these people? So they will continue to volunteer for the military, getting killed for the interests of big business? I'm done with that and call foul. I'd rather honor Daniel Ellsberg for risking his freedom to get the troops home from vietnam when the government was telling boldface lies about our 'progress' there. Or Bradly Manning, who risked his freedom to out the BS of our current military. These guys actually DID fight for our freedom but found themselves in jail.

I conclude with the words of a super war hero, two time medal of honor winner, General Smedly Butler

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

MikeL

climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
Nov 13, 2012 - 01:59pm PT
So why do we need a special category of honoring these people?

Bloody hell, Karl's right. Let's get rid of all the celebrations this country devotes itself to.

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• Dia de Los Muertos - November 2
• Aviation History Month - November
• American Education Week - 2nd Week in November
• America Recycles Day - November 15
• National Care Week - 1st Week in November
• National Alzheimer's Disease Month - November
• National American Indian Heritage Month - November
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• National Geography Awareness Week - 3rd Week in November
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• Home Care Aide Week - 2nd Week in November
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• Veterans Day - November 11
• National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week - 2nd Week in November
• National Family Volunteer Day - 2nd Saturday in November
• Thanksgiving - 4th Thursday in November
• Great American Smokeout - 3rd Thursday in November
• Humane Society Anniversary Day - November 22
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - November 25
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• Learn A Foreign Language Month - December
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• Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month - December
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• Universal Human Rights Month - December
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• National Sign-Up for Camp Month - December
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• Operation Santa Paws - December
• Safe Toys and Gifts Month - December
• Seasonal Depression Awareness Month - December
• Chanukah - December 8 - December 15, 2012
• Human Rights Week - December 10 - December 17
• Las Posadas - December 16 - December 24
• Christmas - December 25
• Kwanzaa - December 26 - January 1
• World Peace Meditation Day - December 31
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• national depression screeaning day
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• National COPD Awareness Month
• National Novel Writing Month
• national-hunger-and-homelessness-awareness-week
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Nov 13, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
Just for the record, I'm fine with Veteran's day, although I think that when the president and the media speak of soldiers as the best our society has to offer, it's basically lip service so people will continue to sign up and die for weak reasons.

There's nothing inherently honorable about being a soldier. Throughout history, it has been soldiers (probably following orders) who have committed the the greatest atrocities. The Nazi death camps, millions killed under Pol Pot and in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 2-3 million South-East Asians killed by the United States in the Vietnam war era, and the rape of Nanjing by the Japanese. All done by Soldiers.

And soldiers just follow orders. There's hardly any evidence of mass refusal and desertion by soldiers in any of the above horrors. So a soldier is only as good as the cause and government who is telling them what to do. Let's fight for the cause of using force only when really needed, not for oil or Israel

peace

Karl
Capt.

climber
some eastside hovel
Nov 13, 2012 - 02:11pm PT
Karl.....Really!? On this thread...Really?! Wow!!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 13, 2012 - 02:23pm PT
This is the best time of the day the dawn The final cleansing breath unsullied yet By acrid fume or death's cacophony The rank refuse of unchained ambition
And pray, deny me not but know me now Your faithful retainer stands resolute To serve his liege Lord without recompense Perchance to fall and perish namelessly
No flag draped bier or muffled drum to set The cadence for a final dress parade But it was not always thus remember Once you worshipped me and named me a God In many tongues and made offering lest I exact too terrible a tribute
Take heed for I am weary, ancient And decrepit now and my time grows short There are no honorable frays to join Only mean death dealt out in dibs and dabs Or horror unleashed from across oceans
Assail me not with noble policy For I care not at all for platitude And surrender such tedious detail To greater minds than mine and nimbler tongues Singular in their purpose and resolve And presuming to speak for everyman
Oh, for another time, a distant field And there a mortal warrior's lonely grave But duty charges me remain until The end the last battle of the last war
Until that tomorrow render unto me That which is mine my stipend well deserved The fairest flower of your progeny Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams The cruel consequence of your conceit



Warrior, by Steve Earle


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Capt.

climber
some eastside hovel
Nov 13, 2012 - 02:31pm PT
Ummm..OK,yeah I even agree with what Karl says(wholeheartedly).My whole time in the military I was constantly told "what are you doin' here?You're definitely not the military type".But the thread title is "Thank You Veterans!".Bashing Veterans Day was not really the reasoning for this thread,nor was arguing.
Michelle

Trad climber
Toshi's Station, picking up power converters.
Nov 13, 2012 - 02:41pm PT
Back on track

Michelle
US Army
Ft Jackson, SC BCT
Ft Sam Houston, TX AIT
Medic
Stationed at Ft Bliss, El Paso, other short term conus locations
I loved my job and didn't want to get out. Long story I'm not interested in sharing here today.


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