Memorial Day

[Valerie]

funny he got rained out in Chicago

That image looks like it's superimposed too, but whatever...


He is still The President and it's not about him...It's Memorial Day.

 

[namvet]

funny he got rained out in Chicago

That image looks like it's superimposed too, but whatever...


He is still The President and it's not about him...It's Memorial Day.

what image??? your right. its NEVER about him

 

[Valerie]

funny he got rained out in Chicago

That image looks like it's superimposed too, but whatever...


He is still The President and it's not about him...It's Memorial Day.

what image??? your right. its NEVER about him

Oh, I was just talking about the Obama video I posted above.

 

[hortysir]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxJf9ZezTZE]YouTube - Heaven Was Needing A Hero - fallen soldier tribute[/ame]

 

[Valerie]

YouTube - Taps The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps

Freedom Is Not Free
- Kelly Strong



I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
and then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of TAPS one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That TAPS had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

I didn't do anything in my life ever that has been worth the sacrifice of the people who serve this nation.
It is very hard to go from day to day with that thought in my mind were it not for what they tell me when I thank them,
"Its an honor".
I cant rob them of that ,I vote accordingly but thats getting absurd.

 

[namvet]

[youtube]Cz65Huu7LIg[/youtube]​

 

[Mr. H.]

Peaceful lives will not deliver freedom.

 

[luckystrike]

[No, freedom isn't free.

It is for Mexicans!

 

[daveman]

 

[Valerie]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ujS1er1r0]YouTube - ‪Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried (Full Version Video)‬‏[/ame]

 

[Valerie]

 

[Valerie]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9hWrddLfPs]YouTube - ‪Memorial Day - A Tribute‬‏[/ame]

 

[Valerie]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afd_sDNYbpY]YouTube - ‪Memorial Day‬‏[/ame]

 

[Wiseacre]

When I first joined the USAF, I volunteered for the Ceremonial Team, these people are the ones who perform military funerals for veterans who have passed away. After you do one of these, it brings home to you that you owe something to them - honor and respect, even if you disagreed with the wars they fought as ordered by their gov't.

 

[Wry Catcher]

For those who served during the Vietnam Conflict the one most poignant place is the Wall on the mall in DC. Even those who never served but attended HS in the mid 1960's/early 1970's can likely find the name of someone they knew etched there.

For those who doubt the heroic nature which accompanies war, I suggest they talk a walk around the US Miliarty Cemetery (Fort Rosecrans) overlooking San Diego Bay. In one section I walked are the graves of US Marines all killed the same day in June 1944. Most were young (19 - 22 or so) and likely met their death on the beach of Saipan.

Can you imagine what they felt the night before, knowing they would soon go hand over hand on the cargo net and enter an open boat, knowing thousands of enemy were waiting to kill them?

I was TDY'd to a troop ship at 32nd St. San Deigo briefly in the summer of '67. Below, in the troop quarters were the racks (beds) five high, the graffiti was still readable on the canvas upon which the Marines slept the night before they were to meet their fate for a beach landing in in Korea.