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Comment by Anti M on November 18, 2009 at 1:10pm

I always thought Norad was so cool...

Comment by Anti M on November 14, 2009 at 3:37pm

Thanks, SueS!

Comment by Anti M on November 14, 2009 at 10:55am

Jill, I've been on flag detail also. I never heard of the new tradition until I was here. Of course any veteran's family can choose any ceremony they feel inspired by, I've said that, but I prefer the rituals I learned while in the service.

Comment by Anti M on November 12, 2009 at 12:08pm

Our local Golden Corral does free meals, and you don't even have to show proof. Very good, but hubby had to work this year so we didn't go.

Comment by Anti M on November 12, 2009 at 1:20am

So, vets, what do you think of this new explanation of the folds of the flags? It is posted in the blogs. I was taught in boot camp the 13 folds were for the 13 colonies, and now it is religious? I am very suspicious that I can't find anyone who served who learned this. I think it is very disrespectful to our original history. Is it just me?

Comment by Anna on November 11, 2009 at 1:53am

HAPPY VETERANS DAY!!!!!

Comment by Arwen on November 4, 2009 at 4:26am

I have a Navy Veteran license plate - issued by the state. I love it. It has a US Navy logo and "NAVY VETERAN" printed on the plate, even a little American flag.

However, every time I'm asked about it, the question is, "When did your husband serve in the Navy?" or "What did he do in the Navy?

Now, my husband *was* in the Navy, but this is MY plate, I used MY DD214 to get it, and it's on MY car. The moment I say it is my plate and mention what I did, when I served, they get very uncomfortable, especially the old Vietnam and Korea war vets. They don't seem to know how to talk to a FEMALE active-duty enlisted veteran. In their experience women were nurses, or yeomen at best.

It happened again today, and I'm getting very annoyed.

Any ideas for witty comebacks? Biting replies? Physical damage?

Comment by Anti M on November 2, 2009 at 12:56pm

Arwen, I feel that way sometimes. My hubby gets thanked more often, he has been given a retired Navy ballcap he likes to wear. He'll tell them to thank me too. Most of the time I had a blast, but toward the end I kept thinking about how I felt being part of a war machine. I was very torn, very proud and yet very much a peacenik. That my detailer could not keep me near my husband tipped the scales for me serving more than nine years. I'd have loved to do 20.

Comment by Arwen on November 2, 2009 at 12:14pm

I always feel strange when "thanked for my service." I never felt like I was being "selfless" or serving others when I was in, I was doing what I wanted to do because it was what I wanted to do at the time. It was no burden or sacrifice, especially because I served during the very end of the cold war. It felt very safe. I wasn't serving my country, I was having an adventure! I just happened to be serving my country at the same time. I didn't notice that part.

There is one person in particular here in town who goes way overboard thanking vets. He is a Vietnam vet himself, and I am almost mortified by HIM thanking ME when he served during a bloody war and saw horrors, while my time in mostly consisted of my ship traveling between various beautiful ports of call (Catalina Island, CA, Vancouver, BC, Adak, AK, Hawaii and the like). It didn't even feel like real work, it felt like a long vacation where I worked for my passage.

Is anyone else uncomfortable with this?

Comment by Anti M on September 29, 2009 at 10:12am

The challenge coins are neat collectibles; but yeah, they're new to the Navy.

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