A Happy Veteran's Day to all who have served in uniform. Thank you for your service. We owe you a debt that we can not repay.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

To the millions of men like Clarence Dotson:
Thank You.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/bib/loc.natlib.afc2001001.25068


The most horrible experience was the D-Day invasion. My beachhead was called Utah Beach. I went ashore with 357 infantry replacements. Then I went for my outfit with 343 Field Artillery at Ste. Mere Eglise, France. This was June 11, 1944. I remained with that outfit for the duration.

The most horrible was when we landed at the beachhead that so many dead were still floating in the water. They had already turned black, and decay had set in. The stench was awful.

The next real experience that I remember mostly was Christmas Day 1944. We were stationed at Hammersdorf, Germany. We had just had a wonderful Christmas dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, green peas, gravy, cranberry sauce, and all the trimmings. After dinner, I was standing at the back door of the Rock House [?], watching some guys out back who were pitching horseshoes.

We believed the war was nearly over. We were not yet aware of the Battle of the Bulge, although it had started on the 16th of December. While I was standing in the door-I can't explain it-but something just said, "You need to move." It was not audible; I was just impressed that I needed to move. I moved back inside the building; I just got inside the building when an ME-109 (German fighter plane) came across the hill and strafed the building where we were.

I went back to the door where I was standing, and where I'd been standing, bullets had riddled the door frame. Some of the men in my outfit shot the plane down. We shot the plane down, and he crashed just a short distance from where we were standing. We went to see, and all that was left of him [the pilot] was the center section. All the rest was burned up.

Then, being in the motor section of our battery, I was interested in the mechanical part of the airplane. I was fascinated with the motor especially, because it was fuel-injected Mercedes Benz 24-cylinder engine. Little did I realize that in the years to come, I would be affiliated and working that type of engine. I worked for them for 35 years. I still love that type of engine, and I still drive that type of Mercedes car. I've been back to Germany in 1969; I was treated royally by the Mercedes Benz Company.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.25068/narrative?ID=pn0001

Yes three cheers for all who served their Nation.

Without you we could not be here.

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"I have no convictions ... I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"

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Bruno '81 300SD
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'71 Buick GS conv
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Happy Veteran's Day. I always feel a little pretentious and uncomfortable saying thank you, but thank you for your service.

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1984 300TD

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Thank you, all of you who have served in the military.

I think it's sad that it took someone famous like Pat Tillman volunteering, fighting, and ultimately getting killed to attract the nation's attention to the realities and the real waste of war. Everybody is important whether we know their name or not.

As wasteful and bad as war is, it calls our attention to some of the most noble qualities and traits that some of us possess.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

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1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I understand that completely. Saying, "Thank You" to a vet sounds almost trivial, but I think its only worse to not say " Thank You"

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

It just feels kind of arrogant I guess to claim their service as if on my behalf personally. Maybe I'll start saying 'I appreciate your service.' I don't want to claim ownership.

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1984 300TD

A "Thank you" sincerely delivered is sincerely received and appreciated. Don't make a big deal of it. No need to feel guilty.

(Sometimes I think the four hardest words for many people to speak are "Thank you" and "I'm sorry")

in you small world view what do you really know of war or death

Sgt Tillman is a hero you using him in a post to spout your political views on WAR is awful ( realities and the real waste of war ) and ( As wasteful and bad as war is ) TOO you - AND WHO CARES WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT WAR never being in one - but to those who have the balls to go and do the deed its for sure not a WASTE - you diminish the loss of his life with those statements you should be ashamed -- jz

Dude, I don't know anyone who is actually in favor of war, especially those who have actually fought in one. And those are the people who usually have the least to say about it when it is necessary.

I am chiming in for my late Grandfather who served in WW2 and my Late Father who fought in Korea and and my oldest son who received a purple heart and many other medals in Afghanistan.

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Thanks to your son and all before him. Also those I had the pleasure of serving with and still continue to serve with.

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99 ML320
94 SL600
92 SL500
95 E320 Cabriolet
87 560SEC
86 300SDL Grease Car
80 380SLC Euro

13 Fiat Abarth
02 Maserati Spyder Cambiocorsa
00 BMW Z3
90 Rolls Royce Silver Spur
80 Ferrari 308 GTSI
88 Jaguar XJS12 H&E Edition
99 Land Rover Discovery

Whatever makes you think it did for most of the nation?

As a Veteran I thank YOU and you son for your sacrifice.