Memorial Day: Sacrifice and Remembrance‏

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[my miss storm cat]

It doesn't seem right to say "happy" Memorial Day so I'd just like to thank the families of those who served and who are no longer with us.

It's not right only to think of them a couple of days of the year but for those of us guilty of things like that it doesn't diminish our gratitude, our respect and our gratefulness.

... and thank you, of course, to all the rest, to all the servicemen and women, past and present.

We would be nothing without you so please always know that you are in our hearts - all of you... defenders of freedom.

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Catch 60 Minutes tonite in your time zone...on right now here...

[TheSpyder]

I'm half English with my mother coming here from London during WWII when the last V2 bomb the German's dropped landed on her families apartment building killing her mother, father, and brother.

60 years later I am in Cambridge, Englnad at the Duxford Air Force Base and there's a US cemetary for all the figher pilots that served during that time to fight off the Germans in the same battle that killed my mother's family, but saved her by winning the battle.

It was then I realized what memorial day means as I looked over the tomb stones that literally are the reason I exist.

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Originally Posted by TheSpyder

I'm half English with my mother coming here from London during WWII when the last V2 bomb the German's dropped landed on her families apartment building killing her mother, father, and brother.

60 years later I am in Cambridge, Englnad at the Duxford Air Force Base and there's a US cemetary for all the figher pilots that served during that time to fight off the Germans in the same battle that killed my mother's family, but saved her by winning the battle.

It was then I realized what memorial day means as I looked over the tomb stones that literally are the reason I exist.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

I'm half English with my mother coming here from London during WWII when the last V2 bomb the German's dropped landed on her families apartment building killing her mother, father, and brother.

60 years later I am in Cambridge, Englnad at the Duxford Air Force Base and there's a US cemetary for all the figher pilots that served during that time to fight off the Germans in the same battle that killed my mother's family, but saved her by winning the battle.

It was then I realized what memorial day means as I looked over the tomb stones that literally are the reason I exist.

it wasnt long ago that i read that patton was buried overseas, with the men he had commanded. i guess i had just figured they brought him home to bury him after he died from the car accident.
i went to the ww1 museum in kansas city almost two years ago. you walk over a small area that is supposed to look like flanders fields, with the poppies. we don't have any living ww1 vets anymore, and we are losing hundreds daily from ww2.