Post a picture of a unique coin that expresse the real meaning of Memorial Day as it applies to you.
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I have always had a soft spot for this particular piece. I should have wiped the Air-Tite before taking this picture,
It really sums up and captures the essence of POWs - MIS in Viet Nam & Southern Asia. Here ya go. POST YOURS!
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When, as a little boy, I asked my grandmother, who grew up on the same street as the John Adams homestead, if we had any ancestors in the Revolutionary War, she responded: "which side?"
Roscoe Staples bought the finest known 1793 Strawberry Leaf cent just months before shipping off to the Pacific Theatre with the Maine National Guard in 1943. He was killed in the Solomon Islands that year in the same action that left PT-109 chopped in half and Jack Kennedy afloat and injured. The coin remained with his family as a relic before resurfacing in 2004.
Staples won a posthumous Silver Star for his actions, and he was lauded with a citation that noted:
"Although his duties as a regimental S-3 did not require him to expose himself to enemy fire at the front lines, Major Staples repeatedly visited the companies at forward areas to check the progress of operations and to make suggestions to company commanders in an effort to save lives and to bring the battle to a decisive finish. Major Staples' courage and devotion to duty were an inspiration to the troops and contributed immeasurably to the success of operations."
He was a small town businessman and a coin collector at home who found out that he was a hero on a tiny island far away -- just the kind of guy who deserves remembering on Memorial Day.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
232 years young and still a beacon of liberty to the world. A personal thanks to all those that have served and sacrificed along the way.
Collector of Early 20th Century U.S. Coinage.
ANA Member R-3147111
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
This isn't my image, but I have a similar Verdun medal. Memorial day is for honoring the fallen. For those that don't know Verdun was perhaps the bloodiest battle in recorded human history.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun link
The Battle of Verdun resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and at least a million wounded. Verdun was the longest battle and one of the bloodiest in World War I and more generally in human history.
For Americans perhaps an Antietam commem (aka as the Battle or Sharpsburg), as it was the bloodiest American battle of the bloodiest American war, the Civil War.
Images from Commem.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam link
I hope more post pix that hold meaning of the true significance of Memorial Day
other than that of a long Holiday Weekend - some reason OTHER than to go off
somewhere to party, Bar-B-Que, get drunk - etc.
Let us remember the TRUE meaning & the countless brave that died for the
Freedom we take for granted all too often.
Complaceny = Death of Spirit!
JMHO
–John Adams, 1826
VERY appropriate!
Thank you Jim!
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