<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">. . . </span><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Veterans Day</i></b><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><br></i></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:01F31257-FF6E-4583-BD32-30064323972C"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Armed_Forces_Logos.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Armed_Forces_Logos.jpg</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Air Force</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Air_Force.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Air_Force.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Army</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Army.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Army.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Coast Guard</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Coast_Guard.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Marine Corps</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Marine_Corps.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Marine_Corps.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Navy</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Navy.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Navy.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>“Ballad of the Green Berets”</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Ballad_of_the_Green_Berets.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Ballad_of_the_Green_Berets.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>“Nineteen”</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Nineteen.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Nineteen.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>“We Were Soldiers Once and Young”</b> (a spoken prolog)</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/We_Were_Soldiers_Once_and_Young_Prolog.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/We_Were_Soldiers_Once_and_Young_Prolog.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>“White Cliffs of Dover”</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/White_Cliffs_of_Dover.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/White_Cliffs_of_Dover.mp3</a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And, of course, a couple favorite cadence calls . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Around Her Head She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Around_Her_Head_She_Wore_a_Yellow_Ribbon.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Around_Her_Head_She_Wore_a_Yellow_Ribbon.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Old King Cole”</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Old_King_Cole.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Veterans_Day/Old_King_Cole.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>———————-</div><div><br></div><div>When I was in the Army, assigned to the 802nd Engineer Battalion (Camp Humphreys - Anjong-Ri, Korea), February 1976 - March 1977, we had our own cadence call. It went . . .</div><div><br></div><div>“Oh, soldier</div><div>Engineer soldier</div><div>Pick up your bottle and follow me</div><div>Into the village of Anjong-Ri”</div><div><br></div><div>(Those were the days, my friend)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">———————-</span></div><div><br></div><div>Private Hansen . . . Fort Ord, California (August 9, 1969) - My folks came up to visit me that weekend.</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Army/Fort_Ord_080969.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Army/Fort_Ord_080969.jpg</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>My DA photo, included in Department of the Army Promotion Board packets (November 1985 - Fort Irwin, California) . . . 30 days before I reported to Company D, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry (Harvey Barracks - Kitzingen, Germany) . . . six months before I was promoted to Sergeant First Class . . . three-and-a-half years before I retired.</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/DA_Photo_1185.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/DA_Photo_1185.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>My father and his bomber (B-24) crew in 1942 just before departing for North Africa,</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Grampa_Stuff/PETES_CREW_Names_700.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Grampa_Stuff/PETES_CREW_Names_700.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>My maternal grandfather (then a member of the Army Signal Corps) after returning from his tour of duty in England in 1918.</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Grampa_Stuff/Grandpa_1918.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Grampa_Stuff/Grandpa_1918.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>Like an old Army saying goes . . . “Old sergeants never retire. They just stop playing with their privates.”</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SFC, U.S. Army (Retired)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>