THE PILGRIM
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This is one of my patriotic favorites.
Feel free to post yours.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rQzUVQjd8[/ame]
Feel free to post yours.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rQzUVQjd8[/ame]
Memorial Day Post
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I'm looking forward to this years Memorial Day Parade right here in town.
Video from last year's parade:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDoH1I0yr9w[/ame]
Video from last year's parade:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDoH1I0yr9w[/ame]
usmc2427765
US Veteran
I don't have an image to post, however I would like to mention some friends I lost in Vietnam while serving with "C'' co.1 st Tank Bn 1st Marine Division from April 1969 to August 1970. There is not a day that goes by with out a thought about these men and the families that were left to mourn.
PFC Terry Rexroat
HM3 Dave Schoenwald
PFC William Van Cleave
Semper Fi and never forgotten
PFC Terry Rexroat
HM3 Dave Schoenwald
PFC William Van Cleave
Semper Fi and never forgotten
Targets Guy
US Veteran
Targets Guy
US Veteran
Targets Guy
US Veteran
Targets Guy
US Veteran
Nice little card from the DAV:
Dear Veteran,
This Memorial Day, we remember those who courageously
gave their lives.
To those who have fought and those who are fighting.
We admire your courage and appreciate your sacrifices.
We salute you, honor you and thank you.
"...to care for him who shall have borne the battle and
for his widow, and his orphan."
- Abraham Lincoln
Dear Veteran,
This Memorial Day, we remember those who courageously
gave their lives.
To those who have fought and those who are fighting.
We admire your courage and appreciate your sacrifices.
We salute you, honor you and thank you.
"...to care for him who shall have borne the battle and
for his widow, and his orphan."
- Abraham Lincoln
ParadiseRoad
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[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6AOGRsR80[/ame]
onebadvet
US Veteran
onebadvet
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bill2000
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One of the most poignant songs on the subject. Thanks to all those that paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY[/ame]
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Targets Guy
US Veteran
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Targets Guy
US Veteran
Angel Flight is a favorite - sad but about the reason why.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Ikj1hZDnw&list=RD70Ikj1hZDnw#t=6[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Ikj1hZDnw&list=RD70Ikj1hZDnw#t=6[/ame]
Wrangler Rich
US Veteran
I am privileged to be on our local Honor Guard. We sent off another Soldier today. After the service I placed a flag on the graves of my Father-in-law, and my Dad. They each received a respectful Salute.
Thanks for posting such fitting tributes.
Thanks for posting such fitting tributes.
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
I honor our veterans every day of the year, but especially on Veterans Day.
Memeorial day is the day we pay homage to those who gave "the last full measure of devotion", losing their lives in the service of this country.
So, all of you who served and came home, I salute and thank you with all sincerity. I'll do so especially on the day, "Armistice Day" when I was younger, that is designated for special recognition of your service to the country I love.
But on Memorial Day my thoughts and memories and gratitude will be focused especially on the honored dead who didn't make it back.
And I'll wish once again that I could visit the Wall and the other war memorials before I die, while knowing sadly that I never will.
Memeorial day is the day we pay homage to those who gave "the last full measure of devotion", losing their lives in the service of this country.
So, all of you who served and came home, I salute and thank you with all sincerity. I'll do so especially on the day, "Armistice Day" when I was younger, that is designated for special recognition of your service to the country I love.
But on Memorial Day my thoughts and memories and gratitude will be focused especially on the honored dead who didn't make it back.
And I'll wish once again that I could visit the Wall and the other war memorials before I die, while knowing sadly that I never will.
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Hunter8282
US Veteran
I agree whole heartedly. What's keeping you from visiting the memorials?
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shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
Old age, ill health, and no money. On oxygen 24/7. I do my traveling vicariously and on line now.
The freedoms that we enjoy are not free.
Go to any VA hospital or cemetery in our land
and you see plenty of evidence. Remember all
those who have paid the price for us.
Go to any VA hospital or cemetery in our land
and you see plenty of evidence. Remember all
those who have paid the price for us.
Hello Forum;
Short story but fitting for this weekend. 1966...3 "hoodlums" (nice teenagers, but full of the usual "&%!! and vinegar") and their hunting and fishing buddy...a real nice farm kid, go off to the Army, basic and AIT in different posts, then different assignments. Fast forward to 1968 .... 3 hoodlums come home, nice guy farm "man" (no longer a boy!) comes home too, but in a body bag. I visit the wall every year, pay my respects to his last "official" address....Panel 48E, line 52. I usually decline the services of the Rolling Thunder crowd to give me a name scraping as my eyes are usually watered over and I have better memories of good times than anyone can ever "give" me.
For Shouldazagged: You can visit the VN Memorial...right from your computer: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall - The Virtual Wall (TM) then click on last name, click "D", arrow down nearly to the end and find SP5 Charles Mathew Dutton, then click "full profile" and you can read all about my best boyhood friend who gave that "last full measure".
For Charlie D.: only you know how I miss those early November mornings and that first "tracking snow" and the rest of our "cut-short", but life long friendship.
Short story but fitting for this weekend. 1966...3 "hoodlums" (nice teenagers, but full of the usual "&%!! and vinegar") and their hunting and fishing buddy...a real nice farm kid, go off to the Army, basic and AIT in different posts, then different assignments. Fast forward to 1968 .... 3 hoodlums come home, nice guy farm "man" (no longer a boy!) comes home too, but in a body bag. I visit the wall every year, pay my respects to his last "official" address....Panel 48E, line 52. I usually decline the services of the Rolling Thunder crowd to give me a name scraping as my eyes are usually watered over and I have better memories of good times than anyone can ever "give" me.
For Shouldazagged: You can visit the VN Memorial...right from your computer: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall - The Virtual Wall (TM) then click on last name, click "D", arrow down nearly to the end and find SP5 Charles Mathew Dutton, then click "full profile" and you can read all about my best boyhood friend who gave that "last full measure".
For Charlie D.: only you know how I miss those early November mornings and that first "tracking snow" and the rest of our "cut-short", but life long friendship.
steveno
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for the few that are not as well known
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzF1go48IM[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ULN7YMUBI[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzF1go48IM[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ULN7YMUBI[/ame]
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I like to quote the words of Charles Johnson Post, who served in the 71st New York in the Cuban Campaign of 1898:
"Whether a man falls with 20,000 others in some grand battle or all by himself on a lonely outpost, he is a 100% casualty to himself. What more is there to give ? "
"Whether a man falls with 20,000 others in some grand battle or all by himself on a lonely outpost, he is a 100% casualty to himself. What more is there to give ? "
