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hi veterans
i would like to take this upcomeing veterans holiday to honor all you veterans here and in america i hope my dear friend king tiger mark and his son two proud marines god bless all you veterans and again thank you for your service to our great nation enjoy your well earned day god bless andy militarynut

Andy,

I think Mark was a Navy Medic attached to the marines.

here is me a little earlier:

Dave,,you getting in so much trouble back then your stripes were on an armband? instead of sew on!

Oh yeah,,, FLY THOSE FLAGS!

hi dave
great photo of you was that a m1 garand or a m-14 lso king tiger mark your right he told me once and i forgot i know he was so close to the marines on ship they made him a marine didnt matter his son did several tours over in irak / afganastan glad he is home safe thanks for serving dave enjoy your holiday god bless andy militarynut

Gaspare,

That was in basic training - Ft. Dix - January 1964. They used temp ranks with the trainees.

Andy,

M-14. Nice rifle.

Sure Dave!! , ha ha.... Thanks for serving!



BIG thanks to all of those who served that we can enjoy our freedoms!

hi dave
yes i should have known better with that funny looking end on the brl garands dont have that wow basic training 1964 long time ago i missed korea by one year half then had children so by then they were looking for educated men that left me out so me and gaspare joined the salvation army third floor ps your stripes look good to me have a great holiday andy militarynut

Here Is a Picture of Me and My Cousin WK(Utah) Creason om March 18 1969 He came and Visited Me For three days while on R&R He was Killed two Months later He was 19 years old. and was in The Big Red One 1st Infantry Div He is the taller on with the Black Scarf. May He Rest in Peace and God Bless Him

hi bob
thank you for showing pictures of your cousin a real american hero that was killed in 1969 battle very sad he paid the altimate price for his country . god bless him and may his soul rest in peace god bless andy militarynut

19 years old ,,,,...Names get thrown around, but when you see the soldier, put a face to the name, and just really at the beginning of his life...
So much he had to do, and experience. Everything we all take for granted.
You got it Andy,,these guys ARE the true American heroes. Either from a draft or volunteer,,these guys went and served,,,for us.
Bob,, thanks for your service, and condolences and thanks to your cousins family for his service from all of us here at GDC...

Beyond comprehension for anyone who didn't go through that.
Kids [and parents] that were 13/14 in 1964 lived with Vietnam for years on end hanging over their heads, 4 years later the kid is 18, drafted and dead, gone.
Such a terrible waste of life and in the end, we were not fighting for a just cause and the sacrifices were in near complete total vain.

I watched a docu about Hamburger Hill - NVA occupied it and the generals wanted them gone so they moved in a force they thought would be up to the task.
Force they sent was no where near up to the task so reinforcements were sent in. We got chewed up bad with over 70 KIA in a few days and hundreds wounded, in the end we kicked them off the hill - Then a couple weeks later, we left and NVA reoccupied the hill.
All that life wasted literally for nothing, really sickening and heads should have rolled for those giving orders for pointless fiascos like that. It was almost as if they didn't have anything better to do with their raw material [human lives] at hand, so they thought they had better do something, anything, else they'd look to their superiors as if they weren't hungry enough for action.
Basically to feed their egos and vanity and to pad their military resume, they squandered lives.

But none of this takes away from men like Redsled and his cousin [RIP], they served their country at the level where it really counts, and a different time different place could have been me or anyone else.