Memorial Day Remember why

I will be blasting TAPS in my backyard at Noon.

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Thanks to all who have served
Especially those that gave the ultimate sacrifice ?

The Ultimate Sacrifice; thank you and God Bless.

One of my friends died at the age of 43 in 1993 which was later linked to agent orange....he spent a lot of time in the bush getting that shit rained on him.....his death is considered a DIC (death in combat) even though the war ended 20 years before. He was married to my sister in law so I filed for and got her a tax free pension this year.....it's something......but VN was a mistake....and it cost everyone involved big time. So its good to remember those who died...but also to remember the mistakes along the way.

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"A large percentage of our country doesn't know of or care about Normandy, perhaps even being removed from the text in History Books.

A few weekends ago, British artist Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII.

The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional localresidents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide. [Note from AG: BE SURE TO SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE COMMENT AT THE VERY END]

9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day on September 25, 2013
"What is surprising is that I saw nothing about this here in the US. An overseas friend sent it with a note of gratitude for what the US started there."

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True Story of 2 Marines fighting off Japanese BonSia attack, manning a 30cal water cooled machine gun... briefly, one marine was blinded asking his crippled partner to keep loading and tell me which way to shoot... they killed +200 of enemy... cellie...
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And it’s not Happy Memorial Day; just sayin. Not sure what to say but just remember.

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And it’s not Happy Memorial Day; just sayin. Not sure what to say but just remember.


it's also not to thank those who served - that is Veteran's Day - Memorial day is to remember those that didn't come home

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*90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18. Never voted. Never loved a woman, or owned a home.

They gave their lives fighting Hitler and the Nazis, so today's kids can call everyone they don't like Hitler and Nazis.

Think about that.*

***Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.***
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**Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not 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
Gettysburg ***

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Fox News today, only 25% of GENZ, are understanding of MEMORIAL DAY... cell...

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