To all vets past and present

[srkruzich]

THANK YOU! : )

[kshillbillys]

Yes THANK YOU! We often take for granted everything that you all have ensured us, but from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[David]

Blessings to all who have ever served to give me the life I am now afforded. God bless the peace loving, forever surrendering souls who have sacrificed with blood so I might live free!

[Lookatmeknow!!]

I, too, would like to say a big "THANK YOU"!! I have several family members who have served our country, and many friends, too!! It is an honor to say "THANK YOU"!!!!!

[Judy Harder]

Today at Elk Valley in Longton will be a service to honor the veterans..........10:30 and if
it is anything last year, it will be "SO FINE!" Come if you can.

God bless the Veterans who thought that I and the rest of America was worth their effort!

[Roma Jean Turner]

A big thank you to all who have and are serving.

[Bonnie M.]

I add my thanks and gratitude to all who have and who are serving, to protect our freedom.

Judy, I'd be interested in hearing how the honoring of veterans turned out at the School House.  I hope many who should of been honored, were there!  Such a nice thing to do.

Each year on the Sunday before Veteran's Day, our Pastor asks the Veterans to stand and be honored.  This year, he first asked for all of the WW II Veterans to stand.  When we first started attending Church here at Emmanual Faith Community Church, 24 years ago, I imagine there might of been 50 or 75 WW II Veterans stand, at the 8:00 service which we attend.  This year, there were maybe 15 who stood.  Of course, the congregation has many who ended up standing to be honored, as Veterans, but, it's sad how few of our WW II friends there are left.  There were probably more of that age group who attendied the 9:30 or 11:00 a.m. services.  "The greatest generation!"

[Judy Harder]

It was a very nice service. Missing were several vets who either have passed on, like Joe Tindle, and Frank Huges was missing. He planed to be in another service at Cherryvale and when that was canceled, it was too late to get him to Longton.
Not being from here, a few of the older vets who were from the county and not Longton, I didn't know by name.
Lloyd was so proud to be there and showed off his uniform with so much grace, it made me proud. Grinning from ear to ear.
Missing this year was someone playing "Taps" I had figured that would bring the tears, usually does, but I started to get teary when Before the service, the gym started to get quiet without anyone needing to stand up and shush voices. I was pleased with the young people..............and proud. choir sang, band played and it was just a nice celebration.

[Diane Amberg]

Most of our restaurants do free meals for vets today. We just got back from Applebees which was full of gray haired folks having a good time guessing each other's branch and time of service. Al got pegged as Viet Nam era right away. There were a lot of them there.Thanks to all.

[heather_tyler_2014]

I would like to say thank you as well!