Veterans Day / Remembrance Day 2025 photo thread

[toolmanmike]

Happy Veterans Day / Remembrance Day and thank you for your service and sacrifice. If you have any pics to post of yourself, siblings, relatives, past or present, Please post them up. You can tell a little story if you wish.

My stepdad was in the Navy after Korea and toured the world for his 4 year hitch, came home and signed up for another 2 years and was stationed in Pearl Harbor. He was on the USS Edmonds, a destroyer escort and he was a Gunners Mate (6" projectile) and a Corpsman. RIP Dad.

 

[like_A_pike]

Daddy was in the Tonkin Gulf in 1966
We visited the USS Turner Joy in Bremerton (later the track for T&T the same day). To see what life had been like for him back then. He served on the USS Henry W. Tucker however.

My wife’s father served on as an accountant for the DOD (Navy) in Philadelphia after the war and retired only a decade ago!

We lost both within a month of each other in 2023. We miss you guys!

 

[hemi71x]

Me, 1974, Zweibrucken Air Base, Germany.
21 year old kid, back then.
RF-4C Phantom mechanic, flight line crew chief.

 

[oldkimmer]

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Daddy was in the Tonkin Gulf in 1966
We visited the USS Turner Joy in Bremerton (later the track for T&T the same day). To see what life had been like for him back then. He served on the USS Henry W. Tucker however.

My wife’s father served on as an accountant for the DOD (Navy) in Philadelphia after the war and retired only a decade ago!

We lost both within a month of each other in 2023. We miss you guys!

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Sorry for your loss of the family members. Kim

 

[Dan the man]

Thanks to all of the brave men and women who have served, because of your bravery and love for your country we all can enjoy the freedom that we have today. May God bless you and your loved ones. Thanks again for your service.

 

[Dartsun]

My buddy arm wrestling in Baghdad 2003. I took the pic.

 

[norshorblufish]

The first photo is my mother's maternal grand father, second and third are my cousin and last two are my wife's dad.
My dad was in the Minnesota army national guard field artillery. Don't have a good picture in uniform.