For those who have and are serving - thank you!

(and you better believe I am counting those who "tend the home fires" - it couldn't be done without you!)

Seconded. There's a lot of you on here, and I hope you can here this over the sound of your awesomeness.

Thank you thank you thank you! You guys are awesome!

Thanks to everyone past and present. Today is Remembrance Day in Canada and a national holiday. I always get choked up hearing the gun salute and thinking of my grandpas over in Europe during WWII. I can't imagine what it was like for kids younger than me to head off to war like that.

So thank you.

Yes, thank you!! (You too, DaddyWho!)

TM - I can't handle the gun salutes either. Our last house on a military base was 300 yards from a parade field. I could hear the salutes from the monthly memorials.

here it's rememberance day. (Well, it was on the 11th, right now it's the morning of the 12th.) But generally we're referring to WWI - and most of those guys are no longer with us. My grandad fought in WWII, in the RAAF, he was a flight engineer i think they call it, flew in Squadron 10, they flew sunderlands - flying boats. He was stationed in UK for training when the planes were commissioned, so the first sunderlands flown in war were all manned by Aussies. That might even have been the first planes in the war, i can't remember. He died 2 years ago. Man did he have some stories though. And the photos of the wrecks that he walked away from - my god. Must've been hell. Trying to land a plane on a strip of water, like a lake or a choppy ocean, or an unguarded harbour or whatever, often at night, frequently with battle damage, overstocked, running out of fuel, with crappy intercom equipment... i can't imagine what that must have been like. Other than, obviously, fucking terrifying.

He was awesome, i'm glad he survived. Plenty of other young men didn't.

Hey did anyone else see that article a while ago, about the Japenese soldiers who'd been hiding out in the jungle for like 60 years or something, cos nobody told them the war was over? (Or, they were told, but thought it was a trick.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4585287.stm

There was another one found in 1975...

or there's some like this guy, who just sort of disappeared for several decades.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18845695-2703,00.html

or then there's the japanese soldier fighting the american soldier in the jungle for friggin years...

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=253

It's possible they are a joke, i don't know - but they were in the newspaper here, so i guess it might be true. Or at least, someone thought it might be. Or something.

I'll add my thanks, but now I feel odd for not having anything else to say. I hope thanks is enough.

Thank you.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for your willingness to serve! we owe a lot to those willing to stand up and hold the lines. I wish it didnt have to be as much of a sacrifice as it is, and that somehow we could channel more money into military pay and benefits, until then, Thank you!

My heart goes out to you and your families.

Many thanks and much love to all who have served or continue to do so and to the ones left behind - thanks to you as well.

We were moving in on Veteran's day but I'll add my thanks.