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  • Sylvain

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    Happy Veterans Day to all our INGO Vets! :patriot:

    Today we're celebrating the end of WW1 (November 11th 1918) and all our veterans.

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    Are you doing something special today to honor a veteran? Let us know!

    Let's get some rep to every vet posting in this thread! :rockwoot:

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    04FXSTS

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    U. S. Army 1969-1971, Sgt. E-5 Recon. Spent my overseas time in Korea instead of Nam. Now a member of American Legion Post 51 Honor Guard Westville, Illinois. We will be doing our yearly ceremony at the Veteran's Monument at the local park. Jim.
     

    Thor

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    Thanks Sylvain, going to visit my dad; WWII and Korea vet. My career ran from '75 to 2003...still work for the puzzle palace.
     

    KellyinAvon

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    Dad and I are going to get lunch. He was Army (Engineers) in the mid-50s.
     

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    Kirk's dad, USAFR, 1961-1969, Flight Instruments School, Mississippi

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    In the top pic he's standing in front of a buzz bomb! Glad we ditched both of those hats, although it looks like the bus driver hat (top) has some of that cool crunched down look.
     

    Sylvain

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    I know today is Veterans Day, a day where we celebrate veterans who are still with us and not the fallen as we do during Memorial Day.

    (Can you really celebrate one without remembering the other anyway?)

    But I wanted to share that picture anyway.Today France unveiled a new monument to commemorate the the death of some 600 soldiers who have died outside France in resent years.

    The monument represents six life-size soldiers carrying an invisible coffin.

    I think it's a great idea to not represent the missing soldier but to just show the void.
    I don't know if similar memorials exists in the world of if it's an original idea.
    I've seen hundreds of war memorial and can't remember a similar design.

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    My dads big brother, standing next to the B-24 he co-piloted, on a runway on Guadalcanal in 1943 or '44.

    He was lost when a transport he was on went down in the ocean near New Caledonia, in March 1944.

    Veterans Day is a little different to me these days, with the recent retiring of my two younger brothers, one a Major and the other a Colonel, from the Army. Between the two, they did three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
     
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    HoughMade's Dad was an Air Defense Artillery guy in the '50s and '60s. He tested and maintained the NIKE and others. In his civilian job, he designed and built Talos guidance systems until the late '70s at which time he switched from designing missiles to designed medical devices and medical testing equipment.

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    DoggyDaddy

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    Not a very good pic, but Dad is the one furthest to the left watching a guy shoot a Thompson off the back of a patrol boat in the South Pacific (Eniwetok Atoll) as a Sea Bea in WWII. Dad passed in 1998 at the age of 81. He was a Lieutenant JG.

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    Alamo

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    I know today is Veterans Day, a day where we celebrate veterans who are still with us and not the fallen as we do during Memorial Day.

    (Can you really celebrate one without remembering the other anyway?)

    But I wanted to share that picture anyway.Today France unveiled a new monument to commemorate the the death of some 600 soldiers who have died outside France in resent years.

    The monument represents six life-size soldiers carrying an invisible coffin.

    I think it's a great idea to not represent the missing soldier but to just show the void.
    I don't know if similar memorials exists in the world of if it's an original idea.
    I've seen hundreds of war memorial and can't remember a similar design.

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    Interesting monument. I presume this is in Paris?

    Now I'm going to have to search around and figure out the different uniforms.

    Interesting cultural difference I learned chasing down info on Lord Nelson being pickled in a cask of brandy: The European custom is use a coffin more or less shaped to the body, narrowed at the head and feet, broader at the shoulder, and carried on the shoulders of the pallbearers, as do the French soldiers in the monument. The American custom is a rectangular casket, with a long handle or separate short handles along the sides so it can be carried at waist level. IIRC, the American custom began to diverge from the European one during the US Civil War.
     

    Sylvain

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    Interesting monument. I presume this is in Paris?

    Now I'm going to have to search around and figure out the different uniforms.

    Interesting cultural difference I learned chasing down info on Lord Nelson being pickled in a cask of brandy: The European custom is use a coffin more or less shaped to the body, narrowed at the head and feet, broader at the shoulder, and carried on the shoulders of the pallbearers, as do the French soldiers in the monument. The American custom is a rectangular casket, with a long handle or separate short handles along the sides so it can be carried at waist level. IIRC, the American custom began to diverge from the European one during the US Civil War.

    Yes the monument is in a 35 acres parc in Paris.

    I never noticed the difference before you mentioned it, both on the shape of the casket and the way it's carried.

    I just managed to identify two uniforms.
    One is a sailor, wearing a bachi (french sailor hat).

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    One is probably from the Foreign Legion with the képi (tall hat thingy).Usually it's easier to identify since they are white but other branches wear it too in different colors.

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    actaeon277

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    Yes the monument is in a 35 acres parc in Paris.

    I never noticed the difference before you mentioned it, both on the shape of the casket and the way it's carried.

    I just managed to identify two uniforms.
    One is a sailor, wearing a bachi (french sailor hat).

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    One is probably from the Foreign Legion with the képi (tall hat thingy).Usually it's easier to identify since they are white but other branches wear it too in different colors.

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    Do you know why sailors uniforms have the small cape like flap on the back of the neck?
    (I do)
     
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