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Memorial Day Weekend - Let's Not Forget
While we're enjoying the BBQ's with friends and family, let's not forget the real reason for this holiday weekend...our fallen troops...recent and years past...
Have a safe weekend...God Bless America!
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05-22-2009, 04:58 AM
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Good point Jakester It's easy to forget what the holiday is REALLY about.
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I will spend much of the weekend working on our counter-IED training system. 38 days until we deliver the first one. We're trying to keep a few less from falling...
God speed to those who have fallen, and thanks to those who served and continue to serve. |
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"Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic."
-General Orders No. 11 (the "Memorial Day Order")
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I say a toast to "those gone West" every night, but yes its good to remember them.
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Great post Jakester...and a pox on whoever gave this one star...I bumped it!
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It is great to be able to remember them and toast them.
Semper Fi |
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Just put another star on it.
Joe A US Army
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...agreed. Happy Memorial Day to all!
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hearing 'Taps' played should give you chills..
somebody died believing you and this great country are worth it... Rika |
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When we were in DC I went to the wall but couldn't deal with it, I stood back and let my wife check it out.
I will have a beer for my friends this weekend. |
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Thank you for this post. I've never forgotten, nor has any member of our family. It is a pity though that so many do. If I knew how, I'd bump it as well.
Thanks to all of you who have served! Karl 88 Targa |
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A soldiers goodbye
Since the dawn of time i have walked the battlefields of mankind. Death, carnage and grief, these are the "gifts" of which i've been bequeathed. For both harm inflicted and pain suffered, in every tongue my dying words i've uttered. I die hard, though not afraid to go, for the other side of death i all to well know. Thus if i speak as if i have an older soul, it is only because in ten thousand battles i did fall. From ancient Summaria to the Roman halls, i have died in every way possible, with mine eyes seen them all. In the untouched forests of the of the Pacific Northwest, to the sandy beaches of Normandy i've faced my death. Time immemorial has brought me here, in my latest incarnation, and free of fear. To kill and to die that is my lot, for the angel of death does continuously plot. But i am not bitter, resentful, nor apathetic, for it is the call of a soldier to fight and to die, this is nothing prophetic. So when this body lies broken and battered, my blood flowing unto the soil, with my flesh torn and tattered... Do not cry or weep for my passing, for i will return to this earth to face the next enemy massing. Until that time i say good bye to you my dear, in my heart you will live forever, and be eternally near. I gave my life freely so that my comrades shouldn't have to, though i am filled with one crushing regret... I shall never again see you. ~Billy, 2009 Last edited by m21sniper; 05-22-2009 at 10:34 PM.. |
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Kohima epitaph...
 Thank you soldiers, Semper Fi John_AZ |
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