Comments on: Have you ever participated directly in a truly historic event?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:17:42 +0000

Yes, I have!

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:12:44 +0000

I was in Saigon in January 1973 outprocessing to leave the country when they signed the peace treaty and I was stationed in Berlin when the wall came down.

By: Andrew Nelson

Andrew Nelson — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:26:06 +0000

Operation Desert Shield and Storm.

By: cmhicksusmc

cmhicksusmc — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:09:15 +0000

The battle of Marjah, Lashkar-gah, steel dawn I,II,III, Operation GodFather and almost all conflicts in the Helmand, Kandahar province Afghanistan. OORAH!!!

By: joe kingman

joe kingman — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:25:23 +0000

I was with the 9th Engineers when we were deployed to Kosovo in JUN99

By: richard

richard — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:35 +0000

i do not know if serving on a destroyer during vietnam supporting land forces is acceptable which i have done as a sailor-i worked at the world trade center for 20 yrs and was there in the 1993 attack and the 2001 attack and bore witness to both horrific events and was lucky to escape both -as an unwilling participant

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:19:34 +0000

With NORAD on 9/11.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:04:21 +0000

I have served in or with the U.S. Army over-seas in six decades (and been shot at in four of them), so yes I have been in a few.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:27:48 +0000

In 1981, my wife and I watched the space shuttle, Columbia, touch down at Edwards Air Force Base. This was the first landing of a shuttle. The memorable thing about it was the fact that I had my Mom with us. Mom was born in 1897 before the first airplane and here she was watching a space shuttle land. Quite a thrill for my dear old Mom.

By: Mike H.

Mike H. — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:10:41 +0000

Skylab 2,Skylab3, and the Apollo-Soyuz Space mission recoveries aboard USS New Orleans (LPH-11)…oh yeah, we also swept Haiphong Harbor for mines in 1973 at the end of the war.