CValentine

Yes JaNan, we are lucky ladies!!

I want to personally thank all Veterans & those Soldiers currently serving...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!

~Cheryl Valentine & Family

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Patty in Wisc

mjd, where are the pics you posted? Nothing there

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mjdsinsacto

Patty, it's posted here, but the album is private.

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Patty in Wisc

This is weird! The original post # 19 shows no pics, but w/ this 'quote' of that post, it shows links to the pics. Is it my puter acting up again LOL?
They way it shows up here is what I see ... no pics, just blank.

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Jananas Bananas

My pictures are not showing up now either for MJD, but they did last night and this morning. I don't know what's going on? ~JaNan

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mjdsinsacto

that's peculiar ... i see the images in the quote box. i'm guessing they're only showing for me, as owner of the private album.


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Eric

Yep. If an album is a "Private Album", the only one who can see them - even when they're posted, is the owner of the album. Found that out about 2 months ago when I wanted my "for threads only" pics to be private so people wouldn't keep asking why I was putting weird pics in my albums . Had to make them "Public Albums" again so I could show the pics in posts.
Btw, Thanx for all the great pics of the people who protect our way of life! Think we all owe them a LOT! I know for sure I have relatives that fought in World War 2, Vietnam, & Korea. Next time we're at Gram's, I'll take my CyberShot & try & get some digital pics to post.
Great thread, JaNan ! Thanx for starting it!

saltydad

I finally found a pic for this thread. Not of me, but of my late Dad. He was in the Pacific in WW 2, and then was with the Army of Occupation in Japan after the war. Here's a pic of him, Morris Gorinson, in Japan.

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John F. Kennedy, September, 1960


http://flickr.com/photos/saltydad/ and
http://community.webshots.com/user/saltydad
http://s751.photobucket.com/albums/xx151/saltydad/

mjdsinsacto

My Marine Son on His First Tour of Duty (Iraq, 2006)

Guard duty


Buddies in the field


Locked and loaded
(i just noted that my son is carrying 2 weapons)





Ready, Aim ...


Stop over enroute to final destination (I think this was on the way in)

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CValentine

Awesome Howard & MJD!!!

Here's my Soldier, taken this morning...Passed his PT test with flying colors!!!
~ Cheryl

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mjdsinsacto

I found this comment attached to one of the images I posted for this thread.

Posted byMaque username

Registered: July 2008
Location: Sweden
Posts: 37
Thu November 19, 2009 7:09am

The only flag I belive in is white!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make bananatrees, not war!!! Nah!


I posted the image particularly for this thread--for like-minded members who have servicemen in their families.

I will move them to a private album.

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Jananas Bananas

Here's more pictures of my military family:

Grandfather


Father


Youngest Brother
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Uncle


Aunt's Father


~JaNan

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Eric

Hi again, guys . One of the subjects I'm studying, this year, is American History. And it was on this date that an attack, on U.S. soil, occured that was at least as brutal as 9-11. This is the site of the attack:



It started because of military tensions, between the US & Japan, that were building over the course of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Attempting to stop the invasion of China, the US & Britain started a scrap metal boycott, an oil boycott, freezing Japanese assets, and (finally) a shutdown of the Panama Canal to all Japanese shipping. While this was going on, Japan began secret experiments with shallow water torpedos that might be effective in a Pearl Harbor offensive. The experiments began in January of 1941. Since Japan had no oil of it's own, the oil boycott was very effective... but not effective enough. On November 26, 1941, the Hull note was issued. The note only demanded the retreat of the Japanese from French Indonesia. But the day before, Japan had already deployed the largest strike ever launched from Japan. The secretly launched strike force was not recalled and was made up of 6 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers, and 3 submarines. Pearl harbor (named after the Hawaiian name, Wai Momi which meant pearl water) was not on alert status when the bombers hit. There's been lots of ideas & rumors about why they weren't, but nobody knows for sure.
Anyway, at 7:53 am (Hawaii time), Sunday, December 7, 1941, a wave of Japanese warplanes descended on the numerous, unsuspecting military bases in Pearl Harbor with a hailstorm of bombs that were followed by a second wave of the same. 90 minutes after the start of the attacks, 2,000 American soldiers and civilians were dead, 200 aircraft were destroyed, & 12 ships (including 5 battleships) were destroyed.
Luckily, the Pacific Fleet's 3 aircraft carriers were not in port at the time. Also, oil storage deposits, machine shops, & dry docks were spared cause the Japanese wanted to avoid detection by the then-alert US military bases.
9-11 was a terrifying thing but one we all remember Very well. Pearl Harbor was the first devastating attack on US soil and one that should be remembered too.
I'm writing this in rememberance of those who lost their lives on this date, in 1941. Let's hope that and 9-11 never happen again.

Caloosamusa

My Uncle Hamilton went through the Pearl Harbor attack aboard the USS Phelps. He did not survive the war however as he was killed by a suicide plane off Okinawa aboard the USS Evans.

Remember!!!

Jananas Bananas

R & R !!



~JaNan

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CValentine

Look at you 2 happy LOVEBIRDS!!! ~Cheryl

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Patty in Wisc

Happy for you Janan

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CValentine

Leaving for training... ~Cheryl

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klemmthamm

Well here I am... I am currently still in Iraq. Hope all is well with everyone here.

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saltydad

Klemmthamm-

Look forward to seeing you back stateside! Stay safe.

Howard

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"If by a liberal, they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind; someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions; someone who cares about the welfare of the people, their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties; someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicion that grips us; that is what they meant by a liberal, I am proud to be a liberal."
John F. Kennedy, September, 1960


http://flickr.com/photos/saltydad/ and
http://community.webshots.com/user/saltydad
http://s751.photobucket.com/albums/xx151/saltydad/