Memorial Day

[Joe2]

Red White & Blue 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[mibcapper]

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[Chad G.]

USN Brother  

 

 

[Alan]

Lest we forget:

 

 

 

[Al Oregon]

Amen!

[bumblebee]

I highly recommend Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific as the most poignant WWII documentary I have ever seen. You have to rent/buy it, but it is well worth it. Features much interview footage with the legendary marine and author Eugene Sledge along with several soldiers he fought with on that island and beyond. So many WWII veterans never told their stories, but here they bare so much brutal honesty in an intimate interview setting. I own this on VHS and watch it every Memorial Day.

For the Vietnam War, HBO's Dear America is a  haunting documentary set to Vietnam-era music and war footage featuring actors reading actual letters home from Vietnam by soldiers and support staff. This free version isn't perfect as it has some edits due to copyrights, etc, but editing and music selection is top shelf, and the results pack a serious punch. Another worth owning on DVD.

I also try to remember all the soldiers from other eras who perished in so many terrible or sad ways, not always in combat. They forever deserve our remembrance and honor and respect.

[akroorka]

My Grandfather was a “Horse Shoe-er/Blacksmith” in WW1. He was gassed and survived—(coughed a lot—the Camel Straights did not help). He had two brothers that came back as well.
Hats off to the ones that did not make it back—and the ones that did as well.
Marble—On!!
 

[Tommy]

My grandfather was a flamethrower on Okinawa. 

Thank you to everyone who has served 👊👏

[disco005]

Memorial Day Flag etiquette:

The flag is to be flown at half staff only from sunrise until noon, at which time it is raised briskly to full staff again.

 

I didn't know this until about five years ago and share this where I can. 

[Joe2]

My late Grandfather served Two Tours Over Seas, Germany and France. WW2, 189th Brigade Parachutist T5. here at my sons 1st BDAY

[Alan]

Just noting that Memorial Day honors US military members who lost their lives in the military service of the nation.

[Joe2]

51 minutes ago, Alan said:

Just noting that Memorial Day honors US military members who lost their lives in the military service of the nation.

Absolutely: May30,1868 - ABC27. God Bless America. My Grandfather blessed to have come home.

[schmoozer]

I was the first in 3 generations to serve in the 70’s. And the last, except for my new son-in-law, who was a Navy seal.

god bless those who served and sacrificed for the USA.