Happy Memorial Day!

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Some of yall need to read post #9. I know exactly what Memorial Day is for. WHy caint people stop bein all anal about everything and simply say something like "thanks for their service"? But everybody always has to frig everything up. Thanks guys.
 
I was in Israel during their Memorial Day this year.
I was walking from the hotel to a cafe when the siren marking the start went off at 8:00pm.
The entire city of Jerusalem, the whole country actually, stopped. The cars stopped and people got out and stood, there were two buses that stopped, everyone got off and stood. People came out of their shops, it was unreal.
You could see in the faces of everyone (mostly) that there was a sincere sense of loss.
At 11:00am the next morning, there was another siren and again, everyone stopped.
At 8:00 pm that night, Memorial Day ended and Independence Day began. The whole country partied.
It was unreal, I've never seen anything like it since 9/11.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Some of yall need to read post #9. I know exactly what Memorial Day is for. WHy caint people stop bein all anal about everything and simply say something like "thanks for their service"? But everybody always has to frig everything up. Thanks guys.
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I agree. Memorial Day is about what you choose, there are no rules.

If you stop and take a moment to remember the fallen, the injured or even just those that served...you have gotten the point of the whole thing...remembering those that have served and sacrificed for the freedoms we hold dear.
 
Thanks to all past and present that have served to keep North America what it is.
From Skynyrd concert last year.

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Show respect, sorrow and thanks to the fallen including the one in my family for supreme loss that allows me my lifestyle.
Then i move on.
Attending third cookout this afternoon.
Two more tomorrow.
Again. To each their own.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Some of yall need to read post #9. I know exactly what Memorial Day is for. WHy caint people stop bein all anal about everything and simply say something like "thanks for their service"? But everybody always has to frig everything up. Thanks guys.
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It's your thread, say whatever you want.
 
I personally look at Memorial Day as a day to respect all those that I respect, the Veterans, the honorable police and firefighters ( I said honorable), my family that sacraficed so much to raise me, teachers that put up with me in school, friends that maybe I could have been a better friend to.
I think of my dad and mother often, even though he has been gone 40 years, mother 20. He served in the USMC. WW11 and 1 tour Korea. My mother was there during it all, I had not come along till after WW11 but before Korea. They did not call it PDST or whatever it is now called, but he survived it, barely.
 
To those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for us to live in the best country in the world. We are thinking of you, and sincerely Thank You.

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Yes,God bless all our men and women in the military those still with us and those who have gone,wife and I placed flags on the graves of military vets the other day..and thankful my brother made it home from Vietnam!!
 
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Lest we not forget our veterans who've served and are no longer with us for whatever reason.

Here is Robert Lee Merritt, Jr., aboard the USS Hilbert, DE742 circa 1944 doing "something" to one of the engines. You can see a piston and connecting rod behind him. He ain't lookin "none too happy" with the cameraman. LOL Thanks for your service Daddy, I wish I could thank you in person. I love you.

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Thanks for sharing the GREAT pic and the reminder it wasnt a party they were at.I personally never understood why it became the drunks national holiday, But to you and your father a Salute to the memory and the service.
 
We honor all that have and still serve, I thank my dad every year on this day for his service in Vietnam. My wife and I along with my oldest, we ser a Veteran we go tell them thank you for your service. My oldest and I just saw a gentleman at Lowes yesterday served in the Air Force, my boy thanked him then I did and shook his hand and always look them in the eye when we say thank you. Did the same this past Tuesday when we were at Disneyland, there were a few Veterans there with their families. Always honor those that have and still serve.
 
Gentlemen, Honored Posters 'et al'
Where are Our 'dissident' antagonists posts ???
Perhaps Their God is sleeping or otherwise engaged ???
 
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Flag back in it's box .
Away but not forgotten !

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