Do you just go up to offer a kind word of encouragement or gratitude and shake their hand?
2007-03-30 03:21:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
As an ex-Naval Officer, I volunteer for the USO and certainly do so. I am also a member of the VFW, and have gone for the last 8 years to the Golden Gate National Cemetary to plant flags on Memorial Day. If I see a service member on the street: they get a nod, a smile, and a kind word (though there aren't many around here in the SF Bay Area).
I go to the local Navy & Marine Recruiters office... donate model aircraft and ships for display (I'm a professional model builder)... and talk with the kids.
And if ANY service member arrives at my local pub, they get a free drink.
WHY ?? Because other fine citizens treated ME very kindly when I was in Uniform: A Texas highway patrolman told a tow-company that the STATE would pay my tow when I broke down outside Amarillo. The Texas Hotel who comped my night in that hotel while waiting for my car to be repaired... the Steak House staff who comped my MEAL !!
Damned Proud to have served, and proud of my Shipmates... no matter their branch of service.
2007-03-30 04:05:14 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have. Five Marines were coming off a flight in Houston. As they deplaned, people stopped, stared, and then came a roar of appause and that roar just grew louder and louder and the crowd intensified. Security came running from every direction, but then they joined in too. The Marines were stunned. They clearly didn't expect that. I was one of many who got close enough to at least give a " thumbs up".
2007-03-30 10:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes. I know I have a brother who didn't have a choice, it was either navy or prison. So why thank him. But yes I do thank marines and army men/women who have just come back.
2007-03-30 10:29:31 · answer #3 · answered by JBaylus20 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all the time. My husbands a marine and my brother's a paratrooper. So whenever I run across a vet I always thank them.
2007-03-30 10:25:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely- they need all the encouragement they can get.
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http://www.forcespenpals.co.uk
2007-03-30 10:25:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes i do and I don't think they get enough gratitude for all they do, if they make it home! â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥â¥
2007-03-30 10:29:18 · answer #6 · answered by *queenfairy1*Antioch California 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I have and my child once gave some of them a toy gun he had and they said that they were going to put it in with their trophy's, it was in Virginia.
2007-03-30 12:31:24 · answer #7 · answered by Friend 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES, Being a sailor my self I have been tanked.LOL
2007-03-30 10:26:26 · answer #8 · answered by BOBBY B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live with one,so yeah. A lot of people thank him.
2007-03-30 10:40:17 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have and I do....they are so appreciative of it, too....One had tears in his eyes and said that was the first time anyone had told him thank you......
2007-03-30 10:24:40 · answer #10 · answered by missellie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋