A 2011 Memorial Day Thread - Please Keep It Going Until May 30

[jagen heie]

to those who served.


some of you paid the ultimate price, you fought and died upholding your beliefs, you never made it back but your will lives on.

others came home to learn their fight had just began, they lived with their wounds, their memories. you ran the race. you can pass the baton.

to all those who served, to all those who will serve. I salute you with pride. may you never be forgotten. your sacrifices, your deeds, your bravery will live on in the hearts and minds of future generations. may your actions inspire others to protect and serve.

 

[NCTexan]

My wife and I had the opportunity to live in France for four years and visited the Normandy Cemetery a number of times.

Whether sunny or overcast, it was always beautiful and inspiring beyond words.

This misty morning picture turned out to be one of my favorite shots.

 

[Old cop]

I served as a Navy Corpsman in Nam in '66 w/a Marine rifle company. When I returned home it was to the scorn of "hippies" who called me baby-killer without even knowing what my role was.

I'm glad to see that our nation now honors the troops that serve. It has been a long time coming.

 

[labworm]

Meaning without words

 

[semperfi71]

Go to the Wall alone, start at the beginning and then commence to reading the names in silence, and let your thoughts roam free.

I find myself thinking, "Who was this man (there should also be eight women there) and what would he have become if he wasn't here?"

Would he have become a doctor, an auto mechanic, a businessman, would she have become someone's mother?

I have had my wife and daughter do the same without comment from me and then I asked them their thoughts, they were the same as mine.

God Bless All That Gave Their Last Mortal Breath For Us.