Thanks to all Veterans!!
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Thanks to all Veterans!!
Thank you to all our veterans and families.
You and your families paid a price which we can't repay but I am thankful for your service to the United States of America and our citizens.
Biggest thanks to all those that have served and are serving. You people are the real MVP.
Some Dream the Dream
Some Live the Dream
Some Defend the Dream
THANK YOU VETERANS [Marine][Troops]
This is excellent, well done. It was cool to call my son this morning and wish him (for the 13th time!) a Happy Veterans Day and thank him (kind of a constant thing haha) for serving.Quote:
Originally Posted by crays
Thank you!
Thank you !!
I know it's a little late for veteran's day, but thank you to all you who have served!
I spent Veterans Day aka Armistice Day at the Auckland Museum and War Memorial. Next time we consider our casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, consider this:
In 1914, New Zealand had a total population of just over 1 million people. From this, they sent 100,444 troops and nurses to World War I between 1914 and 1918.
Over 40% of men of military age served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force fighting at Gallipoli or the Western Front.
16,697 Kiwis died and 41,317 were wounded in battle and 507 were killed in training by war's end.
Approximately another 1000 died within 5 years due to injuries sustained from the war.
That's almost a 60% casualty rate or roughly 1/4 of all men of military age from a very small country.
Every casualty is a tragedy but that kind of proportion is just staggering.
Very late to this thread. Thank you veterans for serving. Thanks to those who came before me, a special thanks to those who served during the time I should have enlisted myself, and thank you to those yet to serve.