Ya you can go up to a military person now and say Thank You for serving.....However your right ...How do you go up to a father, mother, husband, or wife and say..Thank you for such and such paying the the supreme sacrifice for their country..
I know one thing at least... Seems like the American Public...Most or many do appreciate it more that people are serving their country..
When I was a kid my friend...Her uncle was machine gunned during the Battle of the Bulge by the Germans. see if you remmber during that offensive move the the Germans they were not taking any prisoners.. My parents told me about it but we never talked about it between ourselves, my friend and I as we hung out or played... It was just something that happened.
Then there was the dreaded Vietnam Era... I don't care if you were in Vietnam or not! Just wearing a uniform you were heckled and spit at and pointed at and laughed at no matter what 5 armed forces uniform you wore...Then when a Vietnam vet got in trouble there after.. The first thing in the paper...For example: The guy robbed a bank and got caught by police... The news article always started off like this: Jim Smith a former U. S. Marine Vietnam veteran robbed a bank in Silver Spring township... So to the Vietnam Vet and the Vietnam Era Vets it was like the media give you the knife and then that statement twisted the knife too with statements like that...
I hope that the city Government of Carlisle where Mr. Floyd Fahnestock lives will at least place a monument somewhere with his daughters name spelling out When, What, Where, and How his daughter gave the supreme sacrifice for our nation and for the town of Carlisle too.. As years past people need to read about things like this from the stone markers and monuments so they know one of their own gave the supreme sacrifice for out nation...
