Widder, SASS #59054 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 I'm watching MASH on 'TVLand' right now and they are running some of the Christmas episodes. I thought I would take the time to share a special 'Happy Holidays' greeting to those Vets who spent Holiday time overseas. Personally, I was never in a war zone but I spent 1 Thanksgiving and 2 Christmas holidays overseas in Morocco in a little place called Sidi Yahia back in 69-71. It was a secluded place that probably only exceeded in seclusion by a North Korean prison cell..... OR at least thats how it felt back then. Anyhow, glad to have you home, Soldier/Sailor, and I hope your Holidays are peaceful and blessed. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Amen to that, Widder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Thank you! It is a trying time to be seperated from wife and children over holidays, birth days and anniversaries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 I talked to my oldest son this morning, a major in the Marine Corps and he’s on his fourth Iraq deployment. He called from their base just outside Falujah. His wife and two young daughters are spending the four day weekend with us, wish he was here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Spent a Thanksgiving in the Indian Ocean during the Iran Hostage fiasco. During dinner, canned turkey with all the canned trimmings, which by the way, ain’t bad, our Captain came over the 1MC and wished us all Happy Thanksgiving and he promised we’d be home for Christmas...and we were. I felt bad for those guys that took our place. They had Christmas in the IO. Gonzo Station. At least Ronnie came into office a month later and the hostages had been released. At least we had a ship that holiday. And we were cool in our beds . I say cool because it was around 100 outside. I have always felt bad for our soldiers and Marines during the holidays. The ones humping in the sand or the mud. We had it easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Thank you. I spent my first Christmas married away from my wife, courtesy of Uncle Sam. Spent every holiday in 2008 away, save Christmas. Missed plenty of birthdays and more, but I would serve again, without reservation. I think the missed times were harder on the family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Old Man Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Spent Thanksgiving & Christmas 71 in that SE Asia paradise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrus Cassidy #45437 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 In my entire time as a law dawg, I only had one Christmas with my family, and that was when the Army Reserves called me back to active duty and I was able to take leave. I spent a year in Iraq, and I'll never forget that lonely, dreary Christmas. But the worst ones were in my patrol car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Rich Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Spent Thanksgiving and Christmas of '67 in Chu Lai. kR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dapper Dynamite Dick Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 19 hours ago, DocWard said: Thank you. I spent my first Christmas married away from my wife, My first wife and I had separate honeymoons! 2 weeks after we were married she moved back with her mother while I went to the Middle East for a United Nations Peacekeeping tour. We got married 05 November so I missed Christmas with her also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Plasters, SASS#60943 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 About 1972 I was in the navy stationed in Norfolk - not over there. Thanksgiving day I was expected to call my parents collect. Made the call from a bus station waiting to go down to Virginia Beach . Mom asked what I was having for Thanksgiving dinner and when I told her chili she started crying - I learned to lie after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcase Hardin Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Spent 3 years in Mainz W. Germany 76-79. Remember when "Ger" had and E or W in front of it? Got to go home for one Christmas New Year season. The rest of my service time was as an Air Guardsman and a lot of that was f/t in Maine. I been blessed to be with my family most holidays. These days my family is my Ukrainian wife so I guess I'm sorta "over there". Hoping to have her golden ticket (Immy Visa) and be in Maine for good in another year, then we'll have the whole family together. For those who ARE over there, there aren't enough words to say thank you, but thank you anyway and God bless and keep you and yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 16 hours ago, Charlie Plasters, SASS#60943 said: About 1972 I was in the navy stationed in Norfolk - not over there. Thanksgiving day I was expected to call my parents collect. Made the call from a bus station waiting to go down to Virginia Beach . Mom asked what I was having for Thanksgiving dinner and when I told her chili she started crying - I learned to lie after that. Yeah. Always try to paint a good picture for mom. My mom thought I was in Special Services cause I could play the guitar. My dad finally broke it to her what exactly Special Forces was. He said she didn't take it all that well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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