Memorial Day

[fredjacksonsan]

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, a holiday in the US for those that don't live here.

This holiday is to remember those who have protected this country, and in some cases given their lives while engaged in that protection. This has nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with foreign policy, but is simply to remember those individuals who were in the trenches, doing what they could for the rest of us.

So, to the men and women of the armed forces, a solemn thank you.

[BNaylor]

Nice thoughtful post Mike. Primarily to honor the Americans that served our country going way back and giving the ultimate sacrifice.

As Memorial Day approaches, it is time to pause and consider the
true meaning of this holiday. Memorial Day represents one day of
national awareness and reverence, honoring those Americans who died
while defending our Nation and its values. While we should honor these
heroes every day for the profound contribution they have made to
securing our Nation's freedom, we should honor them especially on
Memorial Day.

In this time of unprecedented success and prosperity throughout our
land, I ask that all Americans come together to recognize how fortunate
we are to live in freedom and to observe a universal ``National Moment
of Remembrance'' on each Memorial Day. This memorial observance
represents a simple and unifying way to commemorate our history and
honor the struggle to protect our freedoms.

http://www.usmemorialday.org/speeche...nt/may0200.txt

Originally Posted by General Douglas MacArthur - May 12, 1962

He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast. But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements. In 20 campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other he has drained deep the chalice of courage.

As I listened to those songs [of the glee club], in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs, on many a weary march from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-shocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God.

I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death.

They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory.

Always, for them: Duty, Honor, Country; always their blood and sweat and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth.

[fredjacksonsan]

Thanks Bob. Yes, it's for those that gave all for some. But there are those out there doing the job, and I'd like to at least give them a nod.

[tonioseven]

[inafogg]

Amen to THAT!!!!!Have a great day everyone just remember what it's all about