Memorial Day

[Whitefield]

 

[Whitefield]

 

[Ivan]

This is what Memorial Day is all about!

 

[AThornquist]

This is what Memorial Day is all about!

Indeed. Though making time and a half on Monday won't hurt...

 

[Ivan]

This is what Memorial Day is all about!

Indeed. Though making time and a half on Monday won't hurt...

You Capitalist Pig!!

 

[reformed trucker]

This is what Memorial Day is all about!

I thought it was about a cookout at Bawb's!

 

[Ivan]

This is what Memorial Day is all about!

I thought it was about a cookout at Bawb's!

Wait! There's a cookout at Bawb's! Oh, well, I have to work anyway.

 

[Whitefield]

Omaha Beach now ...

-----Added 5/22/2009 at 11:55:57 EST-----

"Here Rests
In Honored Glory
An American Soldier
Known But To God"

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

Elmira, NY

 

[Berean]

 

[Whitefield]

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

-----Added 5/23/2009 at 12:35:25 EST-----

 

[Galatians220]

'Nam vets marching on Memorial Day

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(The guy in the back in his dress uniform - which still fits! - is my husband. This was in 2006. He'd never before contacted a Vietnam veterans' group - and that day, he finally got his "Welcome home, brother." About a dozen of them, from the others who marched. Since then, he's been involved in a Christian ministry to other 'Nam vets.)

Margaret

 

[LawrenceU]

My family just returned from a trip to the WWII / D-Day museum in New Orleans. It is a must see. I've been to almost all of the major museums and this is one of the best. It is oustanding now. It will be amazing after this November when the expansion is completed.

 

[Berean]

Did you know that there are 24 permanent American burial grounds on foreign soil. Presently there are 124,909 U.S. war dead interred at these cemeteries, 30,921 of World War I, 93,238 of World War II and 750 of the Mexican War. Additionally 6,177 American veterans and others are interred in the Mexico City and Corozal American Cemeteries. These are maintained by The American Battle Monuments Commission, established by the Congress in 1923, is an agency of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

It's quite overwhelming when you think about it. Here are links to the individual cemeteries and photos.

American Battle Monuments Commission