Bye to Everyone Here

 We'll miss you. Thank you for everything. Come to visit.

Alla.

Bill, drop back in every once in a while, why dontcha?  You were one of the vets who inspired me, and we'll all miss your straight talk.  Thanks!

You will be dearly missed. Thank you so much for your story and understanding.. enjoy yourself out there

Congrats on your successful journey!

Thank you Medic Bill...Your advice and suggestions will be missed. I am 10 months out and always read your posts with great interest. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experiences with us. Good luck in whatever and wherever your journey takes you.

Old Medic you will be missed greatly.

Your straight forward, no nonsense advice and responses have always been what many people needed to read.

Thanks for being here for all of us.

Check back in once in awhile, PLEASE!
Lynda

Check in once in a while! If all the vets move on, we are going to be all alone!!! Its good to know there are those many years into the journey that we can ask if we have questions. Otherwise its the blind leading the blind! Stay!

 GOOD JOB OM!  ...ya come a long way BABY!! It sure has been a blast! Fightin  along WITH and AGIN ya! lmao!!   As far as 'same stuff over and over again'...FOR YOU..yer moving on ..your time, .ON YOUR TERMS!! I can dig it!  .......but if lurkin the boards and ya see ....THIS PERSON JUST DON'T GET IT.....I sure hope ya PM em at least! cuz your perspective is a valuble one! You have contributed immensely to this board...you have! Your mark is EVERYWHERE on these pages....Right or Wrong...you took some hard punches and YA ALWAYS STOOD TALL UNWAVERIN...a TRUE VSGr!!.......I WAS THERE! 

Not MY time YET...I prefer to hang out here in the trenches with the utter grunts...I know ya can relate too...No VSG "Criangle" MAINTENANCE Group...for me either

One of my favorite poems for YOU

How Did You Die? (or in yer case post VSG...LIVE!)

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way
With a resolute heart and cheerful?
Or hide your face from the light of day
With a craven soul and fearful?
Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it.
And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts,
But only, how did you take it?

 

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what’s that?
Come up with a smiling face.
It’s nothing against you to fall down flat,
But to lie there – that’s disgrace.
The harder you’re thrown, why the higher you bounce;
Be proud of your blackened eye!
It isn’t the fact that you’re licked that counts;
It’s how did you fight and why?

And though you be done to the death, what then?
If you battled the best you could;
If you played your part in the world of men,
Why the Critic will call it good.
Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
And whether he’s slow or spry,
It isn’t that fact that you’re dead that counts,
But only how did you die?

-Edmund Vance Cooke

Peace OUT cub scout 

 As always, well said, OM!  You will be greatly missed and I can only hope you'll swing by sometime in the future to let us know how grand life is!  Take care of yourself, enjoy life, stay with the plan and THANK YOU for everything you have shared with all of us.  You will be missed!

Old Medic please say its not truw u have been a tru inspiration I decided to get the Sleeve cause of u your a great in your advice to the point and u dont sugar coat anything please I know its all repeat but we LEARN from the Pros like u at least come in once a month Thanks Old Medic