Memorial Day Remembrances

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 25, 2020 3:00PM

  Salute.....Thank you for a beautiful picture representing the true meaning of Memorial Day. Cheers, RickO

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• Downtown1974 Posts: 7,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 25, 2020 4:39PM

  Thank you to all who serve and and to those who have served. You’ve made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

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• dpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 25, 2020 4:53PM edited May 26, 2020 5:21AM

  There was a movement for everyone who plays a trumpet to get out in front of their house and play "Taps" today at 4:00p eastern. My wife and lots of her friends did it in front of their homes, and presumably a bunch of folks did so around the country. It was very moving.

  
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• messydesk Posts: 20,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 25, 2020 6:21PM

  I went out on my porch at 3:00 CT this afternoon and blew Taps on my old Boy Scout bugle in remembrance of those who gave their lives serving. I'll do it again next year.

  https://www.cbsnews.com/video/taps-across-america/

  John
  Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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• Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 26, 2020 2:20AM edited May 26, 2020 2:20AM

  Living on Oahu, there was a lot of events going on, especially at Pearl Harbor !!!

  Timbuk3

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 26, 2020 3:36AM

  Remembering!

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,340 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 26, 2020 6:37AM

  Less we forget I wont

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• Moxie15 Posts: 318 ✭✭✭

  May 26, 2020 7:30AM

  This made me remember....
  When I was in elementary school every year they loaded us on a bus and brought us to the old town 'common' to watch the old guys dressed up in old uniforms and raise a flag then we all walked to the bridge over the little brook and they dropped a wreath in and played on an old horn. I had no clue what it was all about but got out of school for an hour so it was boring but not too bad.

  I guess I was in sixth grade when I was acting like a hellion as we were loading up when the teacher told me to show some respect. I snidely said 'Why, no one had died, or anything!' Well he sat me down and explained what it was all about and how the old men watched their friends die.

  Two years later it was with pride that I was chosen to run the flag up the pole and lower it to half staff then walk behind the old men to the bridge to drop in the wreath.

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• 1northcoin Posts: 4,993 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 27, 2020 9:16AM edited May 27, 2020 9:17AM

  @Moxie15 said:
  This made me remember....
  When I was in elementary school every year they loaded us on a bus and brought us to the old town 'common' to watch the old guys dressed up in old uniforms and raise a flag then we all walked to the bridge over the little brook and they dropped a wreath in and played on an old horn. I had no clue what it was all about but got out of school for an hour so it was boring but not too bad.

  I guess I was in sixth grade when I was acting like a hellion as we were loading up when the teacher told me to show some respect. I snidely said 'Why, no one had died, or anything!' Well he sat me down and explained what it was all about and how the old men watched their friends die.

  Two years later it was with pride that I was chosen to run the flag up the pole and lower it to half staff then walk behind the old men to the bridge to drop in the wreath.

  Thanks for sharing.

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