Another Funeral

[Dan Morris]

Buried another of my coworkers today at Ft Logan. CUD was Nam vet...Honor Guard was VFW...vets of WW11..............guys in 80's...sad, those in the middle no longer care...............
After first volley, guy on right..03's, dropped his rifle......tears streaming down face for doing this................I got out of chair, picked up rifle handed it back with comment..."please carry on sir".......guy took rifle and proceeded with out another bobble.....
Sad is that people of our own age group do NOT getting involved in this! Granted, a lot of bad memories are involved.....
Man, we cannot expect the old guard to carry on forever!We have got to get involved
Dan

RIP A1c Clyde Everly

[PaulS]

Sad that more people don't seem to care about what was fought and paid for by all the armed forces men and women.

My condolences to friends and family.
They are in my prayers.
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[Bret Andrysiak]

My heart and utmost respect and thanks go out to the vet his family and those who served with him and to honor him at his funeral.
I stopped what i was doing for a moment looked at my puter looked around the room and thought about my life what i have and my wife and kids and took a moment to salute and thank him for his part in giving me the ability to have what i do.
I was peacetime 101st so i get mixed feelings at times around nam vets and my father 82nd (korea) we share some things and then i can never know what they carry every day. some days i am glad i never saw combat other days i feel i missed a part of what it is to really serve.

I was wondering if the VFW was doing more to reach out to the new generation of vets returning seems to me there is a whole new member base just coming home???

[muledeer]

I served in Vietnam with a Clyde Everly and his nickname was CUD. He should be 61 years old. He was in Reno a few years ago and we had a couple of beers together. He was living in Denver at the time (I think) and was selling cars. He was originally from Penn. Stood about 5'6'' and had black hair. We went to boot camp together, tech school, our first assignment in New Mexico, and then to Viet Nam
Tell me this is a different CUD.
muledeer:(
Oh yeah, I think CUD's middle name was Albert.

[Dan Morris]

MD...hate to be the bearer of bad news....Clyde A was the guy.....
coronary!
Dan

:(

[muledeer]

Thanks for the PM. I sent you a reply. Was he still smoking "Lucky Strikes" cigs??
muledeer

[DON WALKUP]

i wish it understood that i'm in no way 'bad mouthing' or disrespecting today's vets, or ANY veteran, for that matter...but...

my dad, my wifes dad both fought in wwII, korea and VN, my brother went to desert storm, i have 3 cousins that altogether, have six and a half years in 'nam alone between them, i did my time in the 'nam war, my wife's son just returned from iraq, so it's not like i have no room to talk, but... it seems to me like the current day media and people in general have forgotten all but what happened last week.

last pearl harbor day and june 6, there was barely any metion at all of them in the media. my dad went thru north africa and the south of france and my uncle went ashore at normandy, my wifes dad went thru tarawa and siapan...

RARELY, is there ever mention of the korean war or it's aftermath and veterans...in fact...you'd probably never know we'd been involved in a bloody war there if it weren't for the veterans of it. my dad would not talk about it, he was along the yalu, my wife's dad went thru the chosin reservoir ordeal, my eldest cousin was with the USMC then.

RARELY is the war in 'nam ever spoken of: especially in schools and in the media and it's vets are spoken of even less. it's like someone or something wants to extinguish all mention of anything that occured earlier than last month...

my dad and uncle are now gone, my wifes dad is very elderly and in ill health, two of the three cousins mentioned are gone, victims of agent orange, the other in failing health.

i'm certain i am not the only one out there with a history like this.

it would be wonderful if, like the bumper sticker i once saw said: "wouldn't it be great if they gave a war and no one showed up for it"?

what will it be like in another sixty three years for veterans?

[Swift]

RIP Clyde...

[Valigator]

Sorry Dan for the loss of your friend.....there are many who realize the contributions that your friend gave to many...its remembrances that keep memories and honor alive....