Thread: The unknown soldier

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I would like to salute a soldier whom i do not know, nor do i know the identity of! Thank you for your sacrifice for your country!! And to all the living and perished men and woman who have , and are still fighting for us!!


Today i witnessed something, that really disturbed me. I am building a new terminal at our local airport. about 2:30 ,a delta flight was coming to its terminal, when we noticed the firemen had parked their trucks on each side of the taxi way. As this flight came in the trucks began to spray a stream of water over the plane from aposing positions. Of course we all wondered what was going on , so we watched as the plane proceded to its terminal, once parked, a hearse pulled up to the plane, and we watched as the cargo door opened. once opened, a big white box with a marine corps logo came out and into the hearse. The scene chilled me to the bone!! No family, no parade, just a box stuck in the luggage compartment of a commercial flight. This poor kid gave all he or she could, to be tossed around like common luggage.

So here`s to you my friend, you were not alone on your final flight home!!

So Sad.So Young.

Thanks for that story - Contribute to you local troop support group.
If it wern't for those efforts, that dern war would be almost forgotten.
Even though young men and women are dying regularly.

Yep, we get so numb to the "statistics" that we forget that young man or woman is someones Son, Daughter, Brother, Sister, Father, Mother, etc.

Thank you John for telling us about that. Kinda puts a different slant on it, doesn't it?

Don

THANK YOU!! and amen to this american hero! it is sad but true that most of these heros are children too.if it wasnt for them and our ancesters who fought in the wars so heroicly this coutry wouldnt be the same.So for all of those that served in the millitary past, present and future.i would like to give a personal salute to you and also a thanks tou you all for all of our FREEDOM

Well its been a while since I flew, but it was common practice for a Military person to escort the fallen members of our fighting forces enroute home---quite possibly, you just missed seeing them or with the sercurity these days(or lack of ) they couldn't get down on the ramp. But it does sound like the time honored practice of unloading the body FIRST was accomplished. The airport fire department salute is awsome to see and does bring back memories.Up here it isn't practiced as much.

Jerry

I suppose the handling of our fallen military varies from time to time and place to place but when a fallen hero comes home it should touch and move us all.

I was working at one of the big aircraft hangers on the Fort where I work late one night (this would have been about a year after we went into Iraq). A little after midnight a medium sized plane landed and taxied to another hanger next door and powered down. I stepped out of the hanger I was in to smoke a cigarette and see what was going on.

A few minuets later a hearse pulled up and a military honor guard marched out of the hanger. They loaded the casket from the plane into the hearse that then pulled away. The soldiers marched away. Other than a couple of commands by the soldier in charge of the honor guard it was completely silent thru out and the events took place under a street light. No one other than the pilots, honor guard and driver were there (I don’t suppose anyone noticed me). I have know idea if it was a soldier from Iraq or Afghanistan or even a retired service member who had elected to be buried in the post cemetery. It doesn’t matter I was the most haunting and moving thing I have ever seen.

The Motor Pool I work at is just down the street from where the Post Honor Guard practices to include the 21 gun salute practice. I hear that reminder a couple of times a week.

When you see a service member THANK THEM NOW.

Don't worry, the Marines are used to roughing it!

Semper Fi!

Originally Posted by Twitch

Don't worry, the Marines are used to roughing it!

Semper Fi!

Amen, brother.

Originally Posted by 49 club coupe

if it wasn't for them and our ancestors who fought in the wars so heroically this country wouldn't be the same.

Nor would the rest of the world! Salute....

Sacrifices of the few for the many. God bless!