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"When You Go Home, Tell Them of Us and Say, For Your Tomorrow We Gave Our Today"

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. . . They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them. . .



Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 11:30 AM




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1
For my uncle, who I never met and am named for, who didn't make it off of Saipan alive.

I'll be seeing you, Harry . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2023 11:28 AM (x0n13)

2 Just got back from the Cemetery. The Challenge Coin I left on my father's Grave last year is still there. I put a Flag on my Father's Grave and My Father-in Law's Grave. Not that many Flags in the cemetery today, Sigh.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (pmmLi)

3 I never know what to do with this day. This year is very different from last year, which was very different from the year before.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (GG4JB)

4 *cries *

I'm Making breakfast for my sons this morning before Marine gets on a plane to go back to Camp Pendleton.

My tears are for the mothers and the wives and the daughters and the sisters and the girlfriends who didn't get to do this somewhat mundane thing. Make breakfast for them.

Thank God for those men. I want to live a life deserving of their sacrifice.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (U2p+3)

5 2 Just got back from the Cemetery. The Challenge Coin I left on my father's Grave last year is still there. I put a Flag on my Father's Grave and My Father-in Law's Grave. Not that many Flags in the cemetery today, Sigh.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (pmmLi)


Much love, NGU.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2023 11:37 AM (x0n13)

6 Thank you for this.

In remembrance of squadron mates who perished in the wee hours of 21 March 1991 when two USN patrol aircraft collided while conducting anti-submarine training operations off the coast of San Diego.

Because one pilot failed to adhere to establish operating procedures, 27 individuals, including two very good friends of mine, both Annapolis graduates, lost their lives.

Despite an extensive search by both sea and air assets, Jay and Dennis, along with the 25 others, remain eternally on-station as none of the bodies were ever recovered.

Posted by: bed head at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (Y1sOo)

7 Much love, NGU.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2023 11:37 AM (x0n13)

And back at ya. Glad you got out of NYC

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (pmmLi)

8 years ago, we were headed to visit relatives in Nebraska at this time of year, and we drove across the east half of Kansas on the way. Lots of beautiful green, seemingly endless, farmland. We came up to one small town - didn't even notice the name - and as with all such towns, there was a small shady cemetery on the outskirts. It was still morning, and as we drove by, I noticed a pickup parked on the grounds, and an older gentleman sitting in a lawn chair under a tree next to one of the graves, all by himself.

to me, that image has always been what Memorial Day is all about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (i9ffA)

9 NGU

Thank
You.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM (U2p+3)

10 I never know what to do with this day. This year is very different from last year, which was very different from the year before.
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It's increasingly difficult to think of the sacrifices made in the name of freedom and the defense of our God-given Rights, and feel anything other than shame at what the living have made of the country, and our unwillingness to accept any discomfort to resist "progress."

Posted by: Methos at May 29, 2023 11:44 AM (kOpft)

11 to me, that image has always been what Memorial Day is all about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (i9ffA)

Lots of small towns all over the country, if you look you'll see a monument somewhere near the middle of town, with flags, some sort of plaque with the names of honored dead. Usually the plaques have some indication of having been updated every 20-30 years. With more names. Names of men the occupants of the town knew and loved.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 29, 2023 11:44 AM (GG4JB)

12 My uncle is buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery at Margraten. The gracious Dutch people hold a very nice ceremony and tend to the graves of US servicemen there every Memorial Day. I am grateful that he is not forgotten.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 29, 2023 11:46 AM (a4EWo)

13 It's increasingly difficult to think of the sacrifices made in the name of freedom and the defense of our God-given Rights, and feel anything other than shame at what the living have made of the country, and our unwillingness to accept any discomfort to resist "progress."
Posted by: Methos at May 29, 2023 11:44 AM (kOpft)

Yeah, I feel disconnected in so many ways. I'm not sure what it would take to reconnect.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 29, 2023 11:46 AM (GG4JB)

14 Looking at the St. Louis nooz site this morning: Here's what to do on Memorial Day, here's the businesses that are closed. Oh, and here's all the people who've been shot this weekend.

Something wrong with this picture.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 29, 2023 11:48 AM (GG4JB)

15 Memorial Day is a sober day for me but also a day of great memories. When I was a kid I would spend the entire day with my father when he was the Commander of the local VFW where the agenda included the visit and ceremony at the local military cemetery. He's in that cemetery now.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2023 11:48 AM (BqNkw)

16 May God bless all of those who have given their lives for this nation.
Band of Brothers is on AMC. Spielberg and Hanks maybe libs but they got this right

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2023 11:48 AM (AxN/S)

17 Here are a couple of my favorites for Memorial Day:

Katherine Jenkins has a beautiful rendition of Requiem for a Soldier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nngMOxoBoIo

And of course John Williams' Hymn to the Fallen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omd9_FJnerY

Thank God that men and women such as these lived.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at May 29, 2023 11:49 AM (8SABE)

18 Remember especially the Bennings, the Braggs, the Hoods, and any other honored dead that Our Betters would hope to erase from our history at this moment of shaping America to their image.

Posted by: Every child has a normal childhood, we're watching it be used as an attack at May 29, 2023 11:55 AM (5/7b/)

19 Salute

Posted by: Dingbat at May 29, 2023 11:55 AM (dDC3n)

20 https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/56116
July 7, 1979 my Crew Chief Ralph J, fellow crew member Dave F and myself launched this A-10 from, RAF Bentwaters and he never returned.
Col. Tommy Thompson RIP

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2023 11:56 AM (xhxe8)

21 Lots of small towns all over the country, if you look you'll see a monument somewhere near the middle of town, with flags, some sort of plaque with the names of honored dead. Usually the plaques have some indication of having been updated every 20-30 years. With more names. Names of men the occupants of the town knew and loved.

Posted by: BurtTC

--

The small towns and sparsely populated counties are what are the most somber when I see the memorials. Hundreds of names on a stone at a time when there only a few thousand residents.

Posted by: Every child has a normal childhood, we're watching it be used as an attack at May 29, 2023 11:56 AM (5/7b/)

22 Hand salute

Ready two

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 11:57 AM (u73oe)

23 Respectively don't put yourself in a bubble. We were in a worse situation in the late 60's early 70's. I'm a realist but the only thing I know is losing hope is exactly what the other side wants and I'm not giving them anything they want.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2023 11:58 AM (BqNkw)

24 I was in Normandy last year, and the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach is immaculate. The workers are obviously all local, yet it was clear they care.

At another small memorial on the beach I watched a worker change a few American flags. It was early, practically no one was there, yet he folded the old flags correctly and with care, and hoisted the new ones with appropriate attention.

It was a small thing, yet it made me smile...there are still people who remember.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2023 11:58 AM (ZCCyW)

25 I've lost two good friends to war. I can kneel down and touch their two names, at once, on the Wall.

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2023 11:59 AM (AmoqO)

26 My Great-grandfather's brother, Perry Pierce of Royalton, Vermont. Served with the 4th Vermont Infantry, enlisted October 1862, re-enlisted December 1863.

Mortally wounded in action at The Wilderness 1864.

His brother, my direct ancestor, served as a LT with the 3rd Vermont Volunteers, discharged from wounds received at Fredericksburg. He lived to see his 80th year.

My son currently serves as an Army pilot, and I hope and pray that this never becomes 'his day.'

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at May 29, 2023 12:04 PM (BcWEu)

27 The American Battle Monuments Commission keeps up 25 American cemeteries in 10 foreign countries.

Very nice website.

https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2023 12:04 PM (AmoqO)

28 All men on both sides of my family have served. Grandson currently in BC at Camp Pendleton. I'm a proud grandma.

Posted by: Infidel at May 29, 2023 12:08 PM (kHtnd)

29 It always,makes,me,uncomfortable when people thank me for my service on this day. Part of me wants to correct them, but I know their heart is in the right place so I don’t.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 12:08 PM (u73oe)

30 And apparently I’m just tossing random commas around.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 12:09 PM (u73oe)

31
In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy by William Grant Still, performed by the Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Jeter.

https://youtu.be/Vlp3PtckCTU

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2023 12:10 PM (MoZTd)

32 Today isn't "happy".
It is a solemn day in which we reflect on the lives of the honored fallen. They shall not grow old.
May we strive to live lives for which they would be proud to have given theirs.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 29, 2023 12:11 PM (MeG8a)

33 "When You Go Home, Tell Them of Us and Say, For Your Tomorrow We Gave Our Today"

----
I'm not ashamed to say that every time I see that sentence I get teary.

Posted by: Ciampino - and probably not really willingly at May 29, 2023 12:11 PM (qfLjt)

34 Heartfelt thanks to those who gave all. Their sacrifices will not be forgotten (despite the malignant efforts of the enemies of freedom we face today).

Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at May 29, 2023 12:11 PM (V66kM)

35 Dang allergies...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2023 12:12 PM (YGqO/)

36 >12

Margraten is very well-tended. I was over there on Memorial Day in 2018. I uploaded my favorite photo from the trip here: https://chris.casablog.com/2023/05/29/remember/

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at May 29, 2023 12:12 PM (8SABE)

37 Respectively don't put yourself in a bubble. We were in a worse situation in the late 60's early 70's.

According to some communists who can't resist bragging, that was exactly when the Republic was lost, and the "stupid cons" didn't know it was happening because Cronkite kept a lid on most of it.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 12:12 PM (X4R3E)

38 To one of my best friends, Nick, while I as growing up. I was both in awe of him and I suppose a bit jealous of him; he was a year older and very popular, very athletic, and very charming. I'm not sure why he made me his friend but he did, and he was always fun and exciting to be with. He went to Annapolis, I just went to college, he went to flight school and became a navigator on an A-6, something I could never do. And then one day there was a training accident out in the Arizona desert, senseless as all such accidents are, and he was dead and I wasn't. It took years for me to wrap my mind around that, and I'm not sure I ever really did. It always felt like a part of me, a big part of my youth, died with him, and I had to figure out how to go on without it. Well here's to you, Nick. and all you were.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2023 12:12 PM (i9ffA)

39 b]Ciampino's Rescue kitties - LIVE STREAMING!!
https://www.twitch.tv/kittenwatch

babies are walking around the room.

Posted by: Ciampino - and probably not really willingly at May 29, 2023 12:15 PM (qfLjt)

40
I read a book about World War I and the epilogue dealt with how beautiful, well-tended and moving the German, British and American graveyards and memorials were compared to the tawdry and neglected French ones.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2023 12:17 PM (MoZTd)

41 To my dad, 20 years in the Navy in submarines, and my mom, both Pearl Harbor survivors, and now my oldest brother, 20 years in the Army Special Forces.
You are remembered and loved.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2023 12:18 PM (YGqO/)

42 Since we live in a "military community" (Army Post nearby) there's almost always stuff going on to commemorate today. Our little town has a parade, there are American flags on each lamppost in "downtown" and so on.

You'd almost think it was 1950.

Yet, this year it seems more subdued. I think the realities of what has happened to our country are sinking in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2023 12:18 PM (Q4IgG)

43 For my cousin, the Airborne trooper who died during the only parachute drop during the Vietnam war, all so some General could punch a ticket. The idea of making a drop into a jungle, is obviously so idiotic that surely no one would think of ordering such a stupid thing.

Predictably, he and most of his fellow elite Airborne soldiers, were snagged in the jungle's trees, and cut to shreds like so many hanging Pinatas by the enemy troops. What an utterly pointless death.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 29, 2023 12:18 PM (CecP5)

44 Tom, Burt, you could both be describing rural Wisconsin. No town too small for its own War Memorial, usually dating back to CW 1, or sometimes the Black Hawk War.
Lots of flags in our cemeteries, local Legion and VFW posts are on that job, and no few lawn chairs out there today for people doing remembrance.

23, fistbump

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 29, 2023 12:19 PM (v0mat)

45 For my uncle who was a tanker serving under General Patton, made it to end, then died in Korea.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2023 12:20 PM (Uv0D2)

46 Thank you, JJ. Thank you to all the heroes from our history. I love the Taps video. Many years ago when I was in the Army posted at Fort Lee, VA they had a bus to DC so we could spend the day there. I walked around with a buddy and the most impressive thing, by far, was the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Those soldiers in the Old Guard are so impressive. There’s an old movie about those boys starring James Caan and James Earl Jones called Gardens of Stone which is mostly forgotten but fantastic

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2023 12:20 PM (GPGR5)

47 Tom Servo,
"To one of my best friends, Nick, while I was growing up"
I knew Nick very well. Classmate at USNA, and went through P-cola the same time as him. Good man.

Posted by: exhelodrvr at May 29, 2023 12:20 PM (6g5Kl)

48 Thanks much, J.J. Binyon's For the Fallen is in my mind the most moving tribute ever to those who gave all.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 29, 2023 12:21 PM (Xrfse)

49 1st Lieutenant Conrad, one of my uncles was in law school when the United States entered WWII; he enlisted shortly after, and was soon selected for Officer Candidate School.

From a letter he wrote home from England (I believe March, 1944): "Soon ... I do not know how soon ... I shall have to demonstrate not only how much or how well I have learned the art of killing, but how well I have taught that abominable art to others. I know what's ahead. It won't be another pleasure trip, but though it may cost me my life, I wouldn't want to miss it! Should I be among the many who inevitably must fall, remember that I didn't go without realizing the possibility that I might lose my life. Remember, too, that I give my life willingly, that I do so out of love for my country and all its people ... even the traitors and selfish slackers. If I should die on the battlefield, I beg you to leave my body there. Some day our government may provide you the opportunity to visit my grave. If so, avail yourself of that opportunity."

Posted by: exhelodrvr at May 29, 2023 12:21 PM (6g5Kl)

50 1st Lt COnrad, Part 2:
The commanding officer of a heavy weapons platoon in 116th Regiment, 29th Division, he survived Omaha Beach on D-Day.
He wrote a "Victory Gram" from France on June 11th, 1944:
"Dear Folks,
Alive and well. Don’t worry. The Hun is strong, clever, and brave, but we are beating him. The past few days here have seemed like years – so much has happened.
France is beautiful. I think I’ll like it better than England. Maybe all of this free wine and champagne makes the difference! You see, it’s purer than the water from the wells which the Germans may have poisoned.
Au revoir,
Conrad"
He was KIA three days later, on June 14th, 1944. He is buried in the American cemetery in Normandy, France.

Posted by: exhelodrvr at May 29, 2023 12:21 PM (6g5Kl)

51 43
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 29, 2023 12:18 PM (CecP5)

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O my, I didn't know that. And no repercussions for that officer?

Posted by: Ciampino -- and probably not really willingly at May 29, 2023 12:21 PM (qfLjt)

52 According to wikipedia, Simonov's poem was addressed to Valentina Serova:
https://tinyurl.com/2p8vpm4m

Posted by: gp at May 29, 2023 12:24 PM (MvF+J)

53 Respectively don't put yourself in a bubble. We were in a worse situation in the late 60's early 70's.
-

According to some communists who can't resist bragging, that was exactly when the Republic was lost, and the "stupid cons" didn't know it was happening because Cronkite kept a lid on most of it.
--

I was just about to make this very point. It's not better or worse. It's parallel. They had taken academia and the government, and in the mid-70s set to work to change the people for their next toppling.

Here we are. This is the exact same tipping point, only with smartphones.

Posted by: Every child has a normal childhood, we're watching it be used as an attack at May 29, 2023 12:25 PM (5/7b/)

54 Off topic, but important: why did they quietly drop almost all the charges against U-Haul Nazi?

https://tinyurl.com/3a3wk9we

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at May 29, 2023 12:25 PM (PWI4f)

55 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 29, 2023 12:20 PM (GPGR5)

Spit polished....I've heard some of those guys get 3 haircuts a week.

Posted by: BignJames at May 29, 2023 12:26 PM (AwYPR)

56 47 Tom Servo,
"To one of my best friends, Nick, while I was growing up"
I knew Nick very well. Classmate at USNA, and went through P-cola the same time as him. Good man.
Posted by: exhelodrvr at May 29, 2023 12:20 PM (6g5Kl)

What a privilege and surprise to know that others still remember him! But that's the kind of man he was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2023 12:26 PM (i9ffA)

57 SGT Albert Medis Jr USMC
1LT William (Wild Bill) White USMCR
LT Sharon Lane USA
PVT Dale Johnson USA
SGT David Dwain Mueller USMC
CPL Patsy Cavalier USA

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2023 12:26 PM (qoGsy)

58 Inspector's step brother was 14 years older than him, an enrolled tribal member, and the last male of his family line. He volunteered for Vietnam. Where he was killed when his helicopter went down, likely due to sabotage by a drafted communist mechanic who went AWOL just after.

Shortly thereafter the mechanic's friends started calling Inspector's mom to gloat that her first-born son was killed. Communists are monsters.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2023 12:28 PM (nC+QA)

59 Margraten is very well-tended. I was over there on Memorial Day in 2018.

It is indeed. Many of the graves there are "adopted" by locals, who keep them immaculately preserved to this day. Quite a few of my Dad's brothers-in-arms were laid to rest there.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 29, 2023 12:28 PM (Xrfse)

60 Off topic, but important: why did they quietly drop almost all the charges against U-Haul Nazi?

Because if "undocumented" white supremacists exist, they'd have to actually do something about the border. Easier to sweep it under the rug.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 12:28 PM (X4R3E)

61 On this Memorial Day let us pause to remember all those who served that never made it back home so that we can live the way we do in the greatest country on this little place called earth.

May the good Lord rest their souls and provide comfort to their family and friends.

Semper Fidelis Warriors one and All.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at May 29, 2023 12:29 PM (+ldAm)

62

All of my male great-grandparents, grandparents and uncles served. My father, piece of hyena shit that he was, he's the only one that didn't. So I went in and did 10 years. I hope that erased the stain from the family. I have no children so the line ends here. Just as well I don't think that I would want my children to serve in the current environment. God bless all those that gave all. 2 in my units.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 29, 2023 12:29 PM (8z0Ez)

63 Posted by: Every child has a normal childhood, we're watching it be used as an attack at May 29, 2023 12:25 PM (5/7b/)

To me it's not even close. The 60's and 70's were much worse.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2023 12:31 PM (BqNkw)

64 Thar's a NOOD !

Posted by: JT at May 29, 2023 12:32 PM (T4tVD)

65 "When a man was almost gone the surgeons would put a piece of gauze over his face. He could breathe through it but we couldn't see his face well...

The dying man was left utterly alone, just lying there on his litter on the ground, lying in an aisle, because the tent was full. Of course it couldn’t be otherwise, but the awful aloneness of that man as he went through the last few minutes of his life was what tormented me. I felt like going over and at least holding his hand while he died, but it would have been out of order and I didn’t do it. I wish now I had."

- Ernie Pyle, Sicily, August 1943

Posted by: Every child has a normal childhood, we're watching it be used as an attack at May 29, 2023 12:33 PM (5/7b/)

66 Just remember, it could be worse. You could be Ben Afflack.

https://tinyurl.com/359ja5zt

Posted by: BurtTC at May 29, 2023 12:33 PM (Ax924)

67 Nood Milley.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 12:34 PM (X4R3E)

68 Sgt Jody, high school classmate. Sick bay/light duty in country 2 wks with gsw. KIA 3rd day back in the field.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2023 12:35 PM (Uv0D2)

69 I ask only one thing:
That you live lives worthy of their sacrifice. Live with a love of freedom and answer the call of our Republic to defend it from within - not with arms, but with heart and word and spirit, telling everyone you meet for what it was that these men gave their uttermost, their last. Tell them of the glories of true Liberty, and Providence which has gifted it to us. Live lives as Americans, worth dying for.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2023 12:38 PM (t+Wem)

70 ust remember, it could be worse. You could be Ben Afflack.

https://tinyurl.com/359ja5zt
Posted by: BurtTC at May 29, 2023 12:33 PM (Ax92

That's just cruel. Did he do or say something recently to deserve this?

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2023 12:38 PM (BqNkw)

71 I want to live a life deserving of their sacrifice.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (U2p+3)

God bless you and yours, Nurse.

Posted by: GWB at May 29, 2023 12:40 PM (t+Wem)

72 Damn, this thread was barely given a chance. Oh, well...thanks again, J.J.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 29, 2023 12:41 PM (Xrfse)

73 I read a book about World War I and the epilogue dealt with how beautiful, well-tended and moving the German, British and American graveyards and memorials were compared to the tawdry and neglected French ones.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh



The Myth of the Great War. Interesting if somewhat inconsistent book.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 29, 2023 12:41 PM (xFY1u)

74 O my, I didn't know that. And no repercussions for that officer?

Of course not. Not even a letter of Reprimand.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 29, 2023 12:42 PM (CecP5)

75 Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC

Robert James Crisp DSO, MC

Leaders in WWII and peace afterwards.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 29, 2023 12:44 PM (u82oZ)

76 CPT Jason West, 24 July 2006, Ramadi, Iraq; https://tinyurl.com/2p8dr3ys
Maj Troy "Trojan" Gilbert, 27 November 2006, NW of Baghdad, Iraq; https://tinyurl.com/5tbrn435
SPC Vincent Pomante, 6 December 2006, Ramadi, Iraq; https://tinyurl.com/26m9pr9n
CPT Travis Patriquin, 6 December 2006, Ramadi, Iraq; https://tinyurl.com/mvj55mmd
Maj David "Klepto" Brodeur, 27 April 2011, Kabul, Afghanistan; https://tinyurl.com/u98d52bz

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at May 29, 2023 12:48 PM (8SABE)

77 Band of Brothers on AMC all day.

Col Spiers to Blythe: "you're already dead, and the sooner you realize this, the better you can get on with the task of killing and destroying the enemy."

Matthew Settle played Spiers, and is my favorite in the series.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 29, 2023 12:58 PM (KiBMU)

78 Blyth story is a fiction mostly, he actually served in Korea and died early 2000s about.

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2023 01:04 PM (xhxe8)

79 ❤😭🙏

Posted by: Lola - ALL the videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 29, 2023 01:42 PM (GshMh)

80 A good man gone:

WILLIAM WINTON WEBB

2LT - O1 - Army - Reserve

Length of service 0 years
His tour began on May 6, 1966
Casualty was on Jun 5, 1966
In , SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS

Body was recovered

Panel 08E - Line 13

RIP

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 29, 2023 02:23 PM (hOUT3)

81 Go and tell the Spartans, passerby, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Posted by: Scar at May 29, 2023 02:25 PM (mZtla)

82 Thanks, JJ. Wonderful post.

My grandfather buried some soldiers in the field. WWI.

Posted by: KT at May 29, 2023 02:41 PM (rrtZS)

83 The Central Valley cemetery where my Grandfather, Chaplain, 3rd Infantry Division, WWII: and Daddy, Navy search & rescue aviator, are buried is covered in flags this weekend though it isn’t a National Cemetery. The VFW and Boy Scouts lay in flags every year, walking the cemetery graves carefully to identify and honor those in the military who are buried there. Some of the flags are a little tired and worn, so I bring extras to swap out, confident the flags will be used again to decorate the graves of our honored military men and women.

Our family is four generations of US military service. I will continue to hope that when the 5th generation comes of age, they see serving in the military as an honored, righteous, and valued profession. In the meantime, we the living need to make sure the sacrifice of life in defense of free people endures.

Posted by: Lisan at May 29, 2023 03:02 PM (JSd3U)

84 Always a tough day here with the, “alternative lifestyle beach celebration,” but nothing about why the day is special. Live your lives, leave me alone, but respect the reason for the day.
Mogadishu veteran. God Bless

Posted by: Drewbicle at May 29, 2023 04:55 PM (6hnye)

85
RIP to fallen heroes, and condolences to their survivors.

I got back from a pretty sloppy ceremony today. Most are outstanding. I won't go to that one next year.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 29, 2023 05:26 PM (lCaJd)

86 Thanks, Lisan

Posted by: KT at May 29, 2023 05:35 PM (rrtZS)

87 #12
Debbie
The American Battle Monuments Commission has about a three minute tour of each of those cemeteries. Margraten is the only one "fully subscribed" which means every grave has a Dutch family looking after it and there's a waiting list.
Three towns have renamed streets after my father's division (104th ID Timberwolves) to Timberwolfstraat..

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88 Should say the "tours" are in Youtube.

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