How Are You Celebrating Your Memorial Day?

[Medic Mike]

I will be celebrating by working......hmmm :1 (103):

[Medic Mike]

Proud to have served!

[Call me bubba]

here are some photos from the Memorial day event,

 

althou its at 8am  fans are provided to keep the guests cool 

 

 

 

 ITS NOT Adm Locklear,but 1 of the children who attended 

 

 

 

thanks/credit to steve on the rock for the photos 

[Gerald Glatt]

WELCOME HOME, BROTHERS

[Jake]

Proud to have served!

I didn't know that you ate dirt and mud as a digger.......way to go Mike!

[scott h]

Visiting Guam right now, spent Memorial day exploring the island. Visited the Asan invasion beach American cemetery and spent some time with my brothers from the 3rd Marine Division who rest there still.

[Jake]

Visiting Guam right now, spent Memorial day exploring the island. Visited the Asan invasion beach American cemetery and spent some time with my brothers from the 3rd Marine Division who rest there still.

Well done trooper.  You just got promoted to Sergeant Major -- thank you for your tribute!

 

Respectfully -- Jake

[Mike S]

Now that I can see again I can post here .... not sure just how I missed these posts but chit happens I guess ....  years ago I had found a post entitled "Dear Dad" about a son thanking his father for giving his life in the war so that he (the son) could be free .... but through time or perhaps bad memory I have lost it .... did a Google search but so far it has turned up nada ..... but here is one that I thought appropriate for posting here even if it is a bit after Memorial day .... in which case I couldn't post anything anyway thanks to Globe .....

 

I'm going to extend this to ALL SERVICE PERSONAL that lost their lives in the line of duty to their respective countries ..... I salute you ....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freedom Is Not Free

- by Kelly Strong -

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I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
and then he stood at ease.

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I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.

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How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?

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No, freedom isn't free.

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I heard the sound of TAPS one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.

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I wondered just how many times
That TAPS had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.

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I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

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I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.

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No, freedom isn't free.

 

 

It ain't just about this ......... it's about this

 

Edited May 28, 2014 by Mike S