Thank You to all who served our Country on Memorial Day
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And to the families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
We are the land of the free because of the brave.
We are the land of the free because of the brave.
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My great uncle on my mom's side was a WWII bomber and my uncle on my dad's side was at Pearl Harbor.
Spent the day with my mother and grandmother tilling soil, planting flowers, spreading mulch and watering the graves of my departed loved ones.
We had nice barbecue afterwards on this beautiful sunny day.
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The Gettysburg Address.
It is altogether fitting and proper.
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Wonderful day.
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id do it again to, no problems with that. t/y
Ditto. I'd try to find a way of not getting blown-up again, though
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id do it again to, no problems with that. t/y
Agreed.
While there are some things in my life that I would change on a do-over, I would re-enlist again.
I never did it for the thanks. I did it because it is my country and I love my country and wanted to be there if needed.
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A couple years ago I had a patient who went up the shores of Normandy in the first wave. He was shot a couple days later and spent several months in a hospital in England. He told me he still remembers seeing the enemy soldier pop up over a wall, point his rifle at him and shoot him. He got better just in time to be sent to Belgium where he was shot again during the Battle of the Bulge. That man came home, raised a family, and lived a great life. In his older years I had the privilege of taking care of him. He would have the nurses get him up every morning, wheel him down to the window where he could see the flag, and stand and salute it. He did that every day since the war ended.
The USS Missouri with the Arizona Memorial in the background:
Oil is still seeping from the USS Arizona, 75 years later:
Those lost from the Arizona:
Shore Fortifications near Point du Hoc, Normandy:
A small section of the US Cemetery at Normandy:
The shores of Normandy today:
I had the honor of working with the British SAS, and courage is not limited to our shore.
One of the men I served with, Dick Meadows, 3 times nominated for the Medal of Honor, never awarded since he was where the US officially was not. He spent a year as a CIA black agent living openly in Tehran Iran during the American Hostage crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Meadows
My wife and I recently attended a gathering honoring a BG Herbert J. Lloyd, who died a month later, wounded 2 times in Vietnam and badly wounded in Kabul after leaving the Army. My wife is intelligent, but does not have "situational awareness" She did not notice all the men who were always at the edge of the crowd, scanning constantly. It was like a CIA reunion from Pakistan and Afghanistan in that room, and enough active and retired Army brass, up to 4 star, to equip a couple countries. Brigadier General Lloyd spent eighteen years in Civil service as a contract partner with Sensitive Government agencies in the Muslim world after his retirement from the Army.