Grateful for Veterans This Veteran's Day and Always: Your Sacrifice Is Immeasurable

Thank You For Your Service

Let’s give a big shout out to those who have served! Many have risked everything for our country. Tag a Veteran or active military service member m to show your appreciation ❤️ It is an honor to walk amongst my heroes everyday.

God bless our mission as we work to take care of our own.

One Veteran at a time.

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Thank You for Your Service!

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We honor the brave individuals who answered a very high call of service to the USA. Thank you for your commitment and sacrifices. Today, memorials across the country honor America’s honorable Veterans and we want to join to ensure that we never forget their dedication and sacrifice.

The Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., Courtesy of Nathan Jones

My hope is that we do more to prepare our military before they go into the service, and that we also take better care of them when they return. Many other countries have mandatory service at the age of 18, and they get lifetime benefits that allow for monthly paychecks and other benefits that seem to outweigh what we do for our Veterans.

My first experience with our military was my father, who was an officer in the Korean war. He worked with a protractor to calculate the angle of cannons being shot.

My second was in 1969, when my uncle in the Air Force was shot down in Vietnam as a B-52 bombadeer. Nine months later, President Nixon brought him back, and he remained at Strategic Air Command headquarters for many years until retirement. I have a picture of him in a hotel with other POWs, prior to being returned to the US… and I hope to post that one day, after I obtain his permission and a story. He has never liked to talk about it but I’m sure that today, he is grateful he was rescued.

Do you remember the MIA or POW bracelets of the 1970’s?

You would purchase one and then pray for the safe return of the soldier. They included name, rank, and serial number as well as where they were last seen.

I am thankful for the Veterans’ Administration, especially the Sepulveda VA Medical Center at which I started as Pre-Med Club President for several years. The Medical Director at that time, Ron Nelson, was also the Medical Director at the Philadelphia VA Medical center twenty years later, when I was Interim Chief of Anesthesiology and an Assistant Professor in three departments at the University of Pennsylvania. How is that for a full circle?

Ed is a Veteran also, having served in the Army and stationed Wuurzburg, Germany for two years. During that time, the longest he spent in the Graffenwoehr forest doing serious survival for many days - the longest being 143 days. He likes going to the VA, so I make sure that he gets good care.

Any Veteran who is disabled from the military can send their children to college for free, and many people don’t know this. So I wanted to make sure and share that.

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What are your Veteran’s experiences? Did you know that whenever you meet a Veteran, even if you are working at a job, you are supposed to honor them by saying,