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Memorial Day Weekend

Shadow Wolf 07

Shadow Wolf 07

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I wish you all a happy, peaceful holiday. Take a few moments of silence to think of all those who fell in battle for our freedom - from Concord bridge to Kabul and Baghdad.
:USA-flag: :medals::USA-flag:​
 
Sunrise...

...Service, Veterans Cemetary, Peagram Station, TN.

:USA-flag: They do not grow old as we grow old. We remember them in the morning and at the setting of the sun....forgive the paraphrase. :USA-flag:
 
Thank you for this thread. I too want to thank those who served on in all services in honor .....

and some in particular, my father who was a radar specialist and landed on D Day at Omaha, and served in Norway and Germany in the OSS, my uncle Mort who flew in the Cactus Airforce from "Canal" and Wake, another uncle Richard who served on an LST throughout the Pacific Campaign, my grandfather who was a DD man in the old four pipers and served as a Convoy commodore in WWII, my cousin Capt. Van Valkenberg who was skipper of BB 39 at Pearl and remains at his post, and cousins on the other side, Capt. Peter Gerlach skipper of U 223, Heirich Gerlach pilot in Lufwaffe, and all those who served in war that we may live in peace.
 
Afganistan...the just war? I believe it, but is there an end game?
Coming back I was oblivious to the continuing weekly, yearly, casualties in Viet Nam.
I've made up for that in this war...each new death hurts me.
If this seems political...it's not meant to be...but then my inappropriateness by now is legend.
 
Agreed....being out of the country for Memorial Day weekend really brought home how much I value what I have, and the Armed Forces that protect our freedoms with their lives. :medals:
 
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