Comments on: Freebies For Veterans

By: Robert Blume (USAF Retired)

Robert Blume (USAF Retired) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:38:56 +0000

I want to personally thank all the firms offering such support to all veterans this one day a year. I only hope that they, and all peoples who have benefitted from the military, can also help address the issue of unemployed veterans, not just one day a year, but all year long.

By: Angella Mierzwiak

Angella Mierzwiak — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:40:18 +0000

I attempted to subscribe for your feed, but had an issue adding it to google reader. Could you please check this out.

By: emily

emily — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:19:06 +0000

ahhh..because you know me so well joe.

By: G. I. Joe

G. I. Joe — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:01:59 +0000

Emily needs anger management counseling

By: Bridgette M-J

Bridgette M-J — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:47:20 +0000

Everybody! Stop trying get one up on everyone else! Veterans day is a special day for those who have served and that still serves, and desire to serve in the future. It’s not about a free meal or a discount. It’s about the pride, sacrifice, and commitment we have as humans. We are old, young, men, women, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, etc., and WE all share the same thoughts and feelings. There is not one person I have met that felt anything but pride for the served in the military. It didn’t matter if they went in for the GI Bill or to have job security. We all go in for different reasons, but we all get out with the same pride and respect.
Yesterday I had to go to the ER at VA hospital to get a scheduled injection because all the clinics were closed. There were a couple of young girls with their family passing out homemade thank you cards to all the veterans. The problem was that they were only passing them out to the older men that were in the waiting room. One girl stood right in front of me and looked me up and down and walked away. I assume she thought since I am a women and young there was no way possible I was a vet. Since I am use to this I didn’t say anything to girl and she handed a card the man sitting to my left. To my right there was a women whose husband is a vet and he was in the back being seen at that time. She asked me if I was a vet and I responded yes. She got up and said you deserve a card as well. She flagged down one of the girls, yelling across the waiting room, “You forgot one over here! This women is a VET!!”
The girl, who just a few moments ago was standing right in front of me came back and gave me a card and said thank you for your service. All I could do was thank the women, who had never in her life seen me before, and went out of her way to make me feel important, respected and honored.
We don’t need free meals or discounts, although they are nice and much appreciated. All we want is to feel important and respected for the time we sacrificed ourselves (some of us our life), to honor and protect the millions of people all over the world who are strangers to us as I am to you.

By: tracy

tracy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:02:58 +0000

you are right Hank, thanks isnt enough, but to counter on your statement regarding women, I differ with you there. I am a female who served in Desert Storm and know many women who served in serveral wars. So saying that women are free and freedom is free to us, don’t forget the women who have been fighting in the wars from the beginning. Any one who has served in the Armed Forces knows the government doesn’t do enough for us, but we take what we can get. I am proud to have served my country, woman or not!

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:13:02 +0000

Just had lunch at Applebee’s in Grand Prairie Texas. All Texas Applebee’s are doing this, and I believe Texas is considered in the South. From a Navy veteran.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:42 +0000

I am a marine who has sacrificed more than I bargained for while I’ve been in. Four deployments and I no longer have a wife; I have realized that pride often comes with a price. This is a lifestyle thats is often blinded by this country; but then again I can’t expect people to go out of their way to thank me. To be honest, I don’t serve for the money, or for the benefits, or even the country; I serve for the marines on the left and right of me. Everything else just feels transparent to me now. I will still go out and get some free food because Marines never pass up free food; I just wish it was free every day. Thanks to everyone that supports us, sit back one day and ask yourself if your doing enough on your part though.

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:11 +0000

Because “thanks” is not enough. For many of us, our service has affected our lives from the time we signed up for selective service until now, in more ways than you can count. You would not know any thing about the SS, being a woman and all. Your freedom is free to you, solely because you are a woman. We as men pay the costs for you. So, thanks is not enough for a lifetime of costs, nor for the price my forefathers paid, beginning with the Revolutionary War and continuing until the present. FYI, my great, great,… grand father was Mrs. Mary Washington’s protectorate and Officer of the Day when this country won its freedom. Where was your heritage then?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:36:14 +0000

Thanks for your service anyway David! Want to move to Military City USA, i.e. San Antonio? SA loves it’s vets!