Memorial Day E-Card Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eugene Adams on Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 10:46 pm:

USBA Memorial Day e-Card

There are no words necessary - watch, learn, and feel!

Click the link below to view the card. Please feel free to pass it on to as many people as you want.

http://www.usba.com/memorialday

Also visit
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/291082.html?1337743433

Your added messages will keep this to the top of the Forum for this important day.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Keith Townsend ; ^ ) Gresham, Orygun on Friday, May 25, 2012 - 12:50 am:

We just got back for Willamette National Cemetery with the scouts. The entire district puts flags on each grave. My borther-in-laws rests there.

Thank you, to each of you, who is a veteran.

Thank you for your service.

-Keith




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR on Friday, May 25, 2012 - 10:43 am:

Gene -- Thank you for posting that link. I have viewed the changing of the guard at the Tomb twice, and I shall do so again any time I'm in D.C. As a Veteran, I cannot watch it with dry eyes.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Friday, May 25, 2012 - 11:12 am:

I think that this has been posted here before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRTqnjRysec


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Coiro on Friday, May 25, 2012 - 01:25 pm:

It's so difficult to have this kind of discussion without it becoming political. I'll just make the observation that there are two factions who appear in public to make their views known: those who carry and honor the flag and those who... well, don't. Simple observation will tell you who is on which team and something about their respective values.

Last month, I had the sad family duty of laying my Dad to rest. Like so many others, he'd been a soldier during WWII. He had served in the Philippines, slogged through the jungles of New Guinea and landed on the beaches of several small, nameless islands in the Pacific. Then, when the war was over, he came home and hardly ever talked about it.

To authorize an American flag for Dad's casket, the funeral director informed me that the Veterans' Administration would insist on seeing his discharge papers, which I couldn't find on such short notice. I did have his dog tags, campaign ribbons, a small handful of medals and several photos of him in uniform, but I was told these might not be sufficient documentation for the VA. This was upsetting, to say the least. Then, some relative with the knees ripped out of her shredded jeans remarked, "So what's the big deal if he doesn't get a flag?" I bit my tongue and didn't inform this individual the big deal was that America-hating hippies like her weren't good enough to pack a veteran's lunch.

The funeral director, having witnessed this, waited for a private moment and told me, "Look, I understand where you're coming from. One way or the other, I'll personally see to it that your Dad gets his flag. Just let me handle it." He did.

I was so afraid I'd be drafted and have to go to Vietnam, but I was lucky; Uncle Sam didn't happen to pick my number. I don't envy the experience of those who did answer the call, but I sure as hell appreciate it. I do know a few guys on this forum who went. I don't have the right to give you a hand salute, so all I can do is thank you.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eugene Adams on Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 10:36 am:

This is hauntingly beautiful!!!!
Our symbol standing guard

This picture was taken at the National Cemetery in Minneapolis, MN on a June morning –

eagleontoombstone


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Aldrich Orting Wa on Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 12:05 pm:



Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eugene Adams on Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 03:20 pm:

So many pictures of dogs have them involved with the military.

Here are some neat pictures, many being military companions. They’re heroic feats are deserving recognition also.

http://dil-ki-dunya.blogspot.com/2012/05/loyalty-dogs.html
Gene in Virginia Beach


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