Honoring Veterans Gifts

Memorial Day

'Charlie was badly wounded in WWII, and a everyday hero to us, so we bronzed his chair!'

"You're very interesting, for a civilian."

'This is the only part of my old Army uniform that still fits.'

Old navy veteran 3rd base coach

Servicemen.

"Postwar is hell."

"War is hell and so is this soup."

WW2 fighter pilot with emoji kills

Military Medals

'This one's for marrying him, and this one's for raising the kids.'

Kid to mom: 'Tell me again about the time you helped fortress a city, subdue hostile fire and got home and baked us all raspberry strudels.'

Naval Veterans Drinking at Greenwich Pub

'I was in a camouflage unit, so this one is for Hide and Seek.'

"I guess I was a good shot, because I took down 50 Nazis...all by myself. That's how I got my silver star. Honestly, I don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself lucky."

Decorated officer - 'And these are for keeping my pants up.'

'This one is for serving 27 years in the military without anyone finding out I'm gay.'

"The first one is for graduating from basic training. The rest are classified."

Monuments

'I got this one for thinking outside the box.'

'General, please hire large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny.'

'I was in the catering corps.'

Shaped Much Different: Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Military style hedgehog

"The president is awarding the Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans...whose heroism and gallantry were overlooked because of their race or ethnicity."

Thank you to those who never came home and to those who never left their side.

'Forget what?'

"Remember when we had to get along on twenty-one dollars a month!"

UNFADED GLORY

Family Salutes as Father Comes Home.

Kamikaze Colour

The unknown war poet.

"Pinpoint havoc, gentlemen, accuracy of mayhem. And yet our dress blues remain crisp and sharp, our hands soft and pink."

"That's my dad back when he was, like, militarized."

The Drone