[AT] Thank You Vets

[ATIS]

Your welcome.   The reason I am replying is because I am mortified that I missed mentioning my father.   He served during the Korean conflict on the USS Coral sea.   My father served on cruises in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean   - never near the Korean peninsula.  He served  as the captain's PR man and ship's journalist.   He did  newsletters, announcements, press briefings, speeches, etc.   The closest he came to the front was nearly being sent there when the he wrote the editorial for the fleet's newspaper supporting the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. I still have that and several other of his pieces.   So he never saw hard duty.  As you might gather, he was a writer by nature and by training and any writing skill I manage to muster is from his genes and red pen.  

I also somehow forgot to mention my favorite uncle served in Korea too.  He also never saw action.   Interestingly he was assigned to low level intelligence and was taught enough Mandarin to do news gathering.  If you knew my uncle you would love him.  But mandarin news gathering would not be the first job you gave him. (-;  

Spencer Yost

> On Nov 11, 2015, at 8:11 PM, Gene Dotson <gdotfly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    Spencer thanks for remembering us veterans. There were 10 boys in our 
> family of 17 children. Six of those were military veterans. Three of us 
> served in the USAF and three served in the army. Two of the army veterans 
> saw active service in WW11 and Viet Nam. Fortunately the other Four of us 
> served in relatively quiet times. My oldest grandson served in Iraq and 
> Afghanistan and now suffers from PTSD which is a terrible Stress condition.
> 
> Just finished watching a program on Public TV profiling the returning and 
> disabled veterans from the past century. Was a real eye opener.
> 
>                        Gene
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: ATIS
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 7:07 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Thank You Vets
> 
> Yes.  Thank you vets.   From a great-great grandfather in the civil war to 
> great uncles in WWI and WWII, to an uncle that was pilot in Vietnam; I - 
> like most of you - have a family legacy of service.  But I am also like the 
> rest of my generation that came of age in the mid 70s.  We   missed the 'Nam 
> draft by a few years and was also was given little reason by the culture of 
> the time and by the military to sign up on purpose - so we didn't and have 
> no personal understanding of the commitment and the service.
> 
> But I do recognize and honor that service.  Thank you.
> 
> Spencer Yost
> 
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