Sen. Dan Sullivan issued the following message for Veterans Day:
Today, across Alaska and across our great nation, American communities throughout our country will be taking the time to recognize, celebrate and honor their veterans and those who continue to serve.
For our state, this is a really important day, and I’m looking forward to spending time in Anchorage and in the Mat-Su Valley on Veterans Day.
Why is this so important to us? Because we are the state with more veterans per capita than any state in the country. That is a special patriotic element of our culture and heritage in Alaska, and it means so much to everybody.
Speaking of Alaska veterans, we just had the opportunity here in D.C. to honor Alaska veterans from World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam, who came to Washington, D.C. as part of the Last Frontier Honor Flight. This is such a great organization, and they’re just celebrating this year, their 10th anniversary. They do incredible work for our great state.
I have tried to make sure, whenever the Honor Flights come to Washington, D.C., and I’m here, I am ready to greet these great American and Alaskan heroes at the monuments. And we always bring donuts! “Pogey bait,” as we call it in the Marine Corps. But our veterans love the Dunkin Donuts that we bring.
My message to all of our veterans on this Honor Flight and to all veterans today is this: Thank you for protecting our liberties and defending our nation.
And, importantly, it’s not just what you’ve done to protect America. Think about this fact, and it is a fact that is not often repeated: Whether you’re a World War II, Korean War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, War on Terror—any veteran, any American who has put on the uniform of your nation, you are part of an incredible heritage. And that heritage is this: The U.S. military over the years has done more to liberate men and women and children around the world from oppression and tyranny than any other force in human history. Hundreds of millions of people are free today because of America’s military. That is an incredible legacy. That is one of the many things that makes our nation, America, an exceptional nation.
On this Veterans Day, I want to again thank all of our Alaska veterans, all veterans across the United States, and, of course, their families who, in many ways, sacrifice as much, if not more, than so many of our veterans.
I tell my wife, Julie, and our three daughters, even though they’re not wearing the uniform, they have sacrificed for their country so much in support of someone who has worn the uniform.
So for all Alaskans on this very special day, thank you to our veterans for their service. God bless our great state and God bless our great country.
Thank you Dan and Lisa nothing from Mary, that speaks volume.
Oh great. Today the nation gets to listen to more lies from Dementia Joe Bloodstains stumbling around the stage mumbling about his son “the war hero” who saved “the democracy” (from MAGA)
I call BS on this!
Dan Sullivan makes certain to be present “whenever the Honor Flights come to Washington, DC”, probably because there are lots of national media cameras around, but he doesn’t show much interest in meeting with an Army veteran who requests a brief meeting with him in Anchorage. I am an Alaska 80% service-disabled veteran and have submitted five written requests to meet with him in Anchorage. I have not received a response to any of these five requests. Also, the written “constituent affairs request for assistance” form I completed and delivered to his office generated nothing, nada, zip!
My concerns involve the “fancy Anchorage CBOC”. It is not the VA facility that all Alaska veterans (men *and* women) deserve. That place is woefully inadequate and ineffective and many with jobs there don’t give a damn. Calls to the pharmacy during the duty day are transferred from the switchboard to someplace in Colorado. When the VA optometrist refused to correct his errors, he challenged the veteran to resolve his errors within the VA bureaucracy. My sigmoidoscopy conducted there was brutal and done, I believe, by a sadist. We are advised to steer clear of the hallways at around 4:00 p.m. when VA staff run en masse to the parking lot. However, as most VA employees continue to “work” inefficiently from home, there are fewer VA employees to dodge these days when they decide to leave. Since Sullivan said he arranged for the current director to “get his job”, he believes incorrectly that the Anchorage CBOC is efficiently run, veteran responsive, sufficiently resourced, and acceptable. But he is very wrong.
Sullivan doesn’t want to know what is going on there because he “cannot handle the facts”. But here are two clear facts: Alaska veterans deserve much better than the Anchorage CBOC and Dan Sullivan’s quest for the spotlight!
Maybe it’s not the US Senator ignoring you. Maybe it’s his staffers handling his scheduling. US Senator office will receive and process hundreds and thousands of notes, letters, and requests. Unless one has spoken to someone directly and in person they intentionally dismissed you, they person can’t say they were intentionally dismissed when that person wasn’t face-to-face. That’s not being fair to Sullivan while there are staffers around him with their own judgement and discernment whether they possess good or bad judgement deciding which mail and requests reach the Senator. The US Senator may never had even received the message.
If Sullivan has an office filled with high-salary staffers who are not doing their jobs well or at all, then this is his problem to solve. The responsibility for the dysfunction or underperformance cannot be assigned to any other person. This criticism is entirely fair!
And for the record, his state director is totally inept so maybe Sullivan should can him first.
I would personally like to thank all our veterans for serving this once great country. With todays government and the lying they do I would not want to see anybody I know join this circus.
Good message and thank you, Dan, from a fellow veteran.
I genuinely wonder how many vets look at the crap fest our country has become and wonder why they bothered?
Well I am sure they think that about the time they served under Benedict Donald. A traitor who has nothing but contempt for those who have served. And as you previously stated was debunked by you. Well since you never leave the radical right traitor sites, General Kelly recently went on the record and confirmed all the horrible things Donolf Trumpler said about veterans.
Quite a change to hear appreciation for military service. Having served in the 70s and early 80s we used to try to look as not military as possible when away from base. Although many Cold War veterans are not held up as much as combat veterans, their contributions helped prevent wars ,but we always think the true thanks belong our preceding generations, and especially the ones who gave all. But again, appreciation for those who made up the volunteer military forces post war deserve thanks as well. For giving of their time to ensure against foreign invasion if nothing else. Thanks.
Alaska has had many young men that served proudly. My grandfather served in WWI, father and uncles in WWII and Korea. Many Alaskan served during Vietnam including members of our family. Many continued the tradition today. God bless them all.
George Washington, the Father of this nation and a veteran of the battles against tyranny dedicated this nation to God including New York even if they don’t like this today. May they see the spiritual truth of this nation and have a strong personal relationship with God for their blessing. I feel George Washington would be angry at how far America has fallen from the Christian ideology. Jesus is the only way back to the Father God and the blessings of eternal liberty.
Andy, thanks for the positive vibe. Encouraging to realize you’re in a good place psychologically during this reflective weekend. Like many of us I imagine your from a multigenerational military family. We all appreciate you’re families sacrifices.
This comment was meant to be reply to Andy Dufrain
LOL, Positive vibes are hard to come by when our feckless and feeble minded loser 80 million voted for doesnt have the time or patience to even show compassion for the families of the soldiers who were left behind to defend the airport and got blown up by a suicide idiot when all the troops were pulled out prematurely.
The same loser who went to Lahaina to “help” the families who lost loved ones including lots of them children and his focus was on the kitchen fire in his home where He nearly lost his “GREEN” Corvette in front of hundreds who had just had family members burned alive!
I will go toe to toe with any of your idiotic remarks regarding MY opinions because just like a**holes we all have one as well as the 80 million who voted for this ignorant insensitive loser.
To our Veterans, God Bless all of you. Thank you for fighting for this country and the sacrifices you all have made! 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸
Takes a great man or woman to serve when all is well with the leaders and country and WE think they are worth serving. Takes a greater and more humble man to continue serving giving his all when the ideals of man and country aren’t ideal, and people tell him it’s not worth serving another human being or country for fear being taken advantage. He not only serves to set a higher standard for the next generation and those around him but he does it because he serves a higher authority who is the judge over him who will personally hold him accountable and did his actions, words, thoughts being Glory to God though he doesn’t stand condemned for his wrong actions (that’s been paid for). We need more young men and women of God if they are called to serve to enter into the service not discourage our young men and women because of imperfect environment.
In the Bible Bathsheba husband modeled that kind of sacrifice and humility he continued serving a king who just took his wife. He probably knew. People talk just as much as people talk about one another as today. Uriah returned to war, returned to the mission and paid the ultimate price to protect and defend Isreal.
Takes a great man or woman to serve when all is well with the leaders and country when WE think they are worth serving. Takes a greater and humble man to continue serving giving his all when the ideals of man and country aren’t ideal (including home and work), and people tell him it’s not worth serving another human being or country for fear being taken advantage. He not only serves to set a higher standard for the next generation and those around him but he does it because he serves a higher authority who is the judge over him who will personally hold him accountable and did his actions, words, thoughts bring Glory to God though he doesn’t stand condemned for his wrong actions (that’s been paid for) (ref 1st Corinth 4:10). We need more young men and women of God if they are called to serve to enter into the service not discourage our young men and women because of an imperfect environment.
In the Bible Bathsheba husband modeled that kind of sacrifice and humility he continued serving a king who just took his wife. He probably knew before he left. People talk just as much as people talk about one another as today. Uriah returned to war, returned to the mission and paid the ultimate price to protect and defend Isreal. Uriah continued serving an imperfect king to serve Isreal.
The jacket says Vets Don’t Forget. May God keep them on bended knee humble to serve never to forget that mission to serve their neighbors, their country’s people, and their country whether they are a current member or they are retired like two retired IDF retiring Israeli Generals when they heard about the attacking happening in kibbutz they took their pistols and head straight to the front line or the young Israeli man who ran home grabbed his pistol to face off the terrorists protecting the lives of his neighbors around him- prolonging their lives, killing terrorists before dying himself. The boomer generals who came from tele aviv are still alive today when they arrived they returned direction and Hope back into a young group of IDF soldiers who just took a beating half of the security force were dead and half of the border IDF were dead including their commander then two retiring/retired generals showed up like angels to mobilize and continue the mission defend and protect Isreal.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we can not consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
You cannot support veterans and Trump at the same time. Conservatives would be pounding the sidewalk with their fists if Biden had denigrated our military so many times. Trump called veterans losers and suckers. How much more of an asshole can he be?
So what category are the veterans who do support Trump?
The basket of deplorables?
Andy. Good question. Reason does not penetrate; all facts are fake to them; the usual path of scientific inquiry fails. Trump supporting veterans, like all his cult, are weak thinkers, gullible pawns destined to burn bright and die.
In other words, I don’t know why anyone would support such a criminal.
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