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Comment by Tsoi Tawodi on November 6, 2011 at 5:31am

Hey Chief...thank you for your service and for loving your wife in a good way. We are given the gift of time with others and each of us will make the spirit walk in time to rejoin those who have gone before us and until then we get to touch life with love and a oneness of spirit to make a positive difference on our earth walk. I too was Navy but being an FMF Corpsman spent all my time with the Marines....after med school I didn't see the Navy again until I got out in 1969. I had never been on a ship until I left Viet Nam and it was an old LST that took us to Okinawa...never realized a ship could go so slow and bob up and down so much...lol. My brother was a radar man on a destroyer ...we joined two weeks apart so he was two weeks ahead of me in boot camp at San Diego. I was an E-5 when I got out and the last day I had to see the career officer who tried to get me to stay but I knew I would go right back to Viet Nam so decided against it. I love the Marine Corps to be sure and am grateful for my time of service...and certainly yours as well. We are all family to be sure. Please be well and know your service made a difference. Semper Fi....Doc 3 Hawks

Comment by arthur joseph waterbury on November 6, 2011 at 1:34am

HELLO, THANK YOU, TSOI, TAWODI, FOR YOUR MESSAGE, AND POST..... FROM RETIRED NAVY RADIOMAN CHIEF ARTHUR J WATERBURY, RMC RETIRED..... APPRECIATED! first joined the U S NAVY IN 1952 am now retired with disability, and almost 21 years naval service! My heart still lives with the US NAVY and the ships and stations and the comrades I served with who some are gone now, some still hanging in there like myself, and YES we were the so called lifers, or career servicemen MET MY DEAR WIFE juliette in Beirut Lebanon loved her dearly, for 51 years, and she SERVED MOST OF MY MILITARY DAYS WITH ME by MY SIDE... She is in HEAVEN NOW since 2007, and this chief like others living alone NOW, and carrying on WAITING FOR THE MOMENT TO JOIN OUR SPOUSES ONCE AGAIN....... LONLINESS IS A TERRIBLE REWARD FOR THE DEDICATION OF OUR WIFES WHO STOOD BY US THROUGH IT ALL, and REALLY MINE, JULIETTE BECAME A AMERICAN CITZEN IN THE SIXTIES, until her death of breast cancer in 2007. I MISS HER DEARLY, and LIFE HAS STOOD STILL FOR ME SINCE.... THANKS FOR A LOVELY PAGE, AND POST.....
The CHIEF..... SIRARTHURJ1934..... Anchors Aweigh ! ..... and SMOOTH SAILING TO ALL...... SALUTE ***** the CHIEF ******

Comment by Tsoi Tawodi on November 5, 2011 at 8:49pm

Veterans Day is coming up very soon. If you served, in what ever capacity...I honor you and all you have done to answer a call. Each of us, when signing up, also signed a blank check and the amount was 'our life'. Some have cashed that in...some of us have not. I am a Viet Nam vet, yet no war is easy on the spirit...the heart nor the mind. One's gender is of no difference..all are equal when things are in the combat frame. To all who have served...I honor you and all that you may have endured, and if you are the family of a fallen brother or sister...know you are loved by the rest of us vets and pray that peace will find it's way to you. It is a fearsome thing to have to do such things as war...a sad state of failure of humans to come to some agreement and people perish at the hands of politicians and yet each trooper, female or male makes a great sacrifice of body, mind and spirit. I have served with those who died, and those who survived and I think each of us would agree that it would be a great thing to end wars of all types. It is only the arrogance of humans who lust for power, greed, and control that create these wars and our young are so often the ones who pay the price.
If you served...you are my sister and brother...If you died...you are my sister and brother and always you will have a place in this heart...never will you be forgotten.
Perhaps one day, it will be the daughters and sons of politicians who must be first on the front lines...first to serve...first to die or be wounded...and if only that were the case..we would see a cessation of war. To all our troops and our fallen....I wish you God speed in your journey...and thank each of you for your service in all ways and for all days.

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Comment by LadyHawkღ on November 3, 2011 at 10:50pm

November 3,2011...My son was sworn into the Air Force today. I'm doing the typical Mom thing right now but I know he made a good choice for his future. Last week he scored a 98/99 on his ASVAB so the recruiter said he pretty much had his pick of jobs...He wants cargo master so he can get some travelling in.
heavy sigh....

Comment by Chief Taz on September 26, 2011 at 11:50am

Doug Thanks for your effort with the page and group, Master Chief B. Taz, USN-Ret Jun 61-Oct 91

Comment by Robert Spiritwalker Murchison on September 11, 2011 at 1:56pm

My dad served stateside during that unofficial war/police offensive (funny, to our personnel there it for all purposes was a war), but he did ride aboard certain aircraft to deliver supplies at times all the way from Lockbourne AFB (a SAC/MAC/TAC base) outside Columbus, Ohio. Some of these flights were classified but when you live on base long enough and the only action known to be happening at the time is at one local it ain't hard to figure out. With my brother some of his classified missions which had cover stories were harder to figure out because they were more recent and more has happen around the world. I was easy to keep track of because I and the rest of our four person launch combat crew spent at least 24 hours babysitting the free world's largest (most powerful at the time) nuclear ICBM known as the Titan II. Since I grew up around the military and spent time in the Air Force I learned much about keeping secrets and codes. Even though the Titan IIs were decommissioned and the tops of the silos were imploded, much of what I knew then still has some bearing with today in other areas as it back when I was active. To be truthful, some parts of being active I miss and some I don't. Those I don't miss, we called them "major cluster f%#*s". Well now I am too old for them to get me back in and even if they were to try they would have wave my restrictions the VA docs have put on me. Peace and Blessings, Spiritwalker.

ps. We vets are also a part of the security here in our hometowns.

Comment by Tsoi Tawodi on September 11, 2011 at 11:09am

I agree Steven...the land had an energy that was not happy with what was being done to it...so torn up with all the war. As a Corpsman, I often gave medical aid to villagers and when we had an intrepter I was always drawn to learning their earth ways...they honored the earth and only wanted to be left alone to their farms and family. I recall almost never seeing any birds..very odd but guess it was the ordinance going off all the time. I missed Tet of 68...got there later in the year and came back in 69...our tours were 11 months...seems the Marines was 13. Like you, I am proud of my service and have no regrets either. I learned much about myself and for that I am grateful. Semper Fi and thanks to all vets for their service. I belong to the Marine Corps group here in the mountains and we still look out for families of vets and vets themselves...an honor to be sure.

Comment by Steven Berry on September 11, 2011 at 9:22am

Hello everyone..I thought it appropriate to introduce myself as I am pretty new to this site and just joined this Veterans group..Steve Berry U.S.M.C...12/65-9/68
spent about 18 months in two tours of Vietnam..Primarily in Chu Lai..5th Mar. Div...proud to have served ..lucky I suppose to have survived ...No regrets ..no complaints...I missed the Tet Offensive by 6 days...Anyone who spent any time there might agree with me when I say ..there was just an eerie feeling all the time I was there..a presence..spiritgs that were not happy to see us invade there land..that is what it felt like to me...what say you?

Comment by Tsoi Tawodi on September 5, 2011 at 9:04am

For sure on holidays such as this weekend when we can BBQ and have family or friends over...I think of our women and men in combat who do not get to do this so freely. May their steps be those of caution and peace and yet their actions what are needed to preserve their own lives and our freedom. Semper Fi to all warriors...past...present...future. Sidanelai (we are all family)

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