Posted on 07/31/2017 2:40:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Thanks for posting. We need so many more of these great stories. God Bless our military! God Bless America!
A friend of mine, who I knew was a vet and had seen action, once wore a suit for a semi-formal affair of my company’s. He had a very small pin on his lapel, which only a knowing eye would recognize as a Silver Star ribbon. The display was not ostentatious, obviously only meant for those who would know.
I already had known that he had taken a bayonet through the forearm - the scar was telling.
I just pointed at the ribbon and asked him to tell me about it some day. “Maybe,” was all he answered. A couple of years later he told me. Damn. God Bless those guys.
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