Memorial Day
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Memorial Day
Honor the U.S. men and women who never made it back.
"Where are these farm boys, city boys, husbands, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles and grandfathers who never made it back home?
France - Cemetery at Aisne-Marne ..... 2,289
France - Cemetery at Brittany ..... 4,410
France - Cemetery at Epinal ..... 5,525
France - Cemetery at Lorraine ..... 10,489
France - Cemetery at Normandy ..... 9,387
France - Cemetery at Oise-Aisne ..... 6,012
France - Cemetery at Rhone ..... 861
France - Cemetery at Somme ..... 1,844
France - Cemetery at St. Mihiel ..... 4,153
France - Cemetery at Suresnes ..... 1,541
France - Cemetery at Meuse-Argonne ..... 14,246
Belgium - Cemetery at Ardennes ..... 5,329
England - Cemetery at Brookwood ..... 468
England - Cemetery at Cambridge ..... 3,812
Belgium - Cemetery at Flanders Field ..... 368
Belgium - Cemetery at Heni-Chapelle ..... 7,992
Italy - Cemetery in Sicily ..... 7,861
Italy - Cemetery in Florence ..... 4,402
Luxembourg - Cemetery in Luxembourg City ..... 5,076
Netherlands - Cemetery at Margraten ..... 8,301
The above does not include our defenders of freedom buried in the Pacific, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan and National Cemetery's at home. So enjoy your cup of coffee, your freedom, and at least put out a flag on Memorial Day."
"Where are these farm boys, city boys, husbands, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles and grandfathers who never made it back home?
France - Cemetery at Aisne-Marne ..... 2,289
France - Cemetery at Brittany ..... 4,410
France - Cemetery at Epinal ..... 5,525
France - Cemetery at Lorraine ..... 10,489
France - Cemetery at Normandy ..... 9,387
France - Cemetery at Oise-Aisne ..... 6,012
France - Cemetery at Rhone ..... 861
France - Cemetery at Somme ..... 1,844
France - Cemetery at St. Mihiel ..... 4,153
France - Cemetery at Suresnes ..... 1,541
France - Cemetery at Meuse-Argonne ..... 14,246
Belgium - Cemetery at Ardennes ..... 5,329
England - Cemetery at Brookwood ..... 468
England - Cemetery at Cambridge ..... 3,812
Belgium - Cemetery at Flanders Field ..... 368
Belgium - Cemetery at Heni-Chapelle ..... 7,992
Italy - Cemetery in Sicily ..... 7,861
Italy - Cemetery in Florence ..... 4,402
Luxembourg - Cemetery in Luxembourg City ..... 5,076
Netherlands - Cemetery at Margraten ..... 8,301
The above does not include our defenders of freedom buried in the Pacific, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan and National Cemetery's at home. So enjoy your cup of coffee, your freedom, and at least put out a flag on Memorial Day."
Being in the Coast Guard, technically, I am a part of the United States Armed Forces subject to the UCMJ. People thank my friends and I at the unit all the time for what we do and the sacrifices we make. It's a great feeling to receive that sort of gratitude from complete and total strangers.
While what we [the Coast Guard] do is important, it pales in comparison to those that are willing to join up, knowing absolutely sure that they are about to ship out to a completely foreign land and be forced to see mortality face to face, day in and day out.
Young kids who are leaving home for the very first time, parents who are forced to leave their newborn children and wives, not knowing what is in store for them a few months down the road and thousands of miles away from home.
When I was first starting the recruiting process at the processing center, there was a young man, probably about 27 years of age, in the Army, processing to ship out to Iraq. His son and his wife stood by in the waiting room, watching him follow the single file line into the bus that would take him to the airport, which would begin the trip to face his fate in his last deployment.
His sun was bawling his eyes out, obviously knowing where his dad was about to go, having experienced it once before. That was a very defining moment in my enlistment into the military.
So thanks all you guys out there that deliberately put yourselves in the way of bullets, bombs, and whatever else is over there (big ass spiders).
I think it definitely makes my playing lifeguard and going for a swim every once in a while look like not quite as much of a sacrifice.
While what we [the Coast Guard] do is important, it pales in comparison to those that are willing to join up, knowing absolutely sure that they are about to ship out to a completely foreign land and be forced to see mortality face to face, day in and day out.
Young kids who are leaving home for the very first time, parents who are forced to leave their newborn children and wives, not knowing what is in store for them a few months down the road and thousands of miles away from home.
When I was first starting the recruiting process at the processing center, there was a young man, probably about 27 years of age, in the Army, processing to ship out to Iraq. His son and his wife stood by in the waiting room, watching him follow the single file line into the bus that would take him to the airport, which would begin the trip to face his fate in his last deployment.
His sun was bawling his eyes out, obviously knowing where his dad was about to go, having experienced it once before. That was a very defining moment in my enlistment into the military.
So thanks all you guys out there that deliberately put yourselves in the way of bullets, bombs, and whatever else is over there (big ass spiders).
I think it definitely makes my playing lifeguard and going for a swim every once in a while look like not quite as much of a sacrifice.
thank you for representing our country it's it's deepest time of need, these men gave thier lives for us to live and act upon the principles of which this country was built on, i fully respect and envy all armed forces soliders who serve, thank you
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Reminds me of about a month ago, I took my dad to Washington DC, so he can see the Vietnam Memorial wall. I was glad to be able to get him there, since he served in Vietnam. He was appriciative that I did that for him as well.
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My current flag went up at noonish today along with my original colonies flag below. Thanks be to those buried for my right to have a big bed and drive a car and choose the religion I want to involve myself with.
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Glad you posted all those, my unit is responsible for salute batteries and color guard presentations at all those places in Europe, its hard to truely grasp how special those places are until you've been there.
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I'm a Navy veteran and my older daughter had become indifferent to the men and women in the military and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. She was fortunate to take a senior class trip to France and late one morning she called with her first words, "Dad, I get it". She had just visited the cemetery at Normandy and saw the thousands of grave markers and the many men who were only a year or two older than her when they died. Since then, she holds memorial day special.
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I did a salute battery at the Luxembourg/American Cemetary for memorial day 2010, where Gen. Patton is burried, even being in the military nothing can put words on what kind of a feeling you get when you see something like that.