What is Memorial Day?

[kilo2]

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Get a pic of the things on either side prob tell you his unit.

[Reaper90]

You couldn't be more wrong......<snip>....Just don't post in this thread Penguin. 

Thank you, Stoney.

[F22RaptorDude]

Get a pic of the things on either side prob tell you his unit.

All it says on the sides are the state he lived in and the city. There's a US flag on the side that has TSA stamped on the side but I don't think it means anything about hit unit.

[TOMCAT21]

My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge and served through march 1946 , army of occupation

[bortas1]

My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge and served through march 1946 , army of occupation

tom what unit was he in?
  bortas

[TOMCAT21]

36th Infantry Division, 136th Anti Tank Company, I believe. He was in the Battle of the Bulge.

[Selino631]

My grandfather- World War II (here is a short inverview that was made of him by ABC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUCv5IZNArU

My Dad- served in the US Air Force in the mid 70s

Me- currently serving in Afghanistan as a Army Infantryman

[Tupac]

Drove to San Antonio today and put some flowers on my grandfathers grave. I didnt really know him, but he was a great american. http://porterloring.lifefiles.com/registryMain.php?PHPSESSID=3cf8478feca0375a1f581961935f360a&i_memorialid=997297414

What it doesnt mention is that he landed on Omaha beach in Normandy and got a battlefield commision when he was 20 because his unit got wiped out.

  to all members of the military, past and present

[redman555]

I thanked 4 vets last night, I always do and always will thank them if they are wearing their hats, or something that identifies them as a vet. I talked to a guy that was on Omaha beach last night, two vietnam vets (one a sniper), and another WW2 vet that was in the pacific.

-BigBOBCH

[USRanger]

Too close of a subject for me to post on.

God Bless America

[guncrasher]

In September 2005 on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'

'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.'

She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the  day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the  diskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one  has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right  to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.

Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned...

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them.  It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'

By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Teacher of the Year for the state of Arkansas in 2006.

Please consider passing this along so others won't forget that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by U. S. Veterans.

true story but she was named teacher of the year by the VFW not the state of arkansas.

semp

[Penguin]

That's the most profound piece of literature that I've read all week.

-Penguin

[skorpion]

heres my pre-memorial day experience

i was walking over to wal-mart for a new video game, 30 dollars in my pocket. it was kind of muggy and drizzling outside. there was a WW2 vet and a Vietnam vet. they were taking donations for some kind of vetrans association. sitting there in the humid, bad weather. people just walked by and they seemed to get more and more discouraged. as i walked across the lot i thought to myself "screw the game" and gave all of my money to them. they smiled to me and handed me a little plastic flower. i realized what i just did and it felt great. i cant believe all those people who go in and out cant spare just 1 cent. even as they came out of the store they thought of those vets as animals begging for food. i think that they were the best damn people on this planet for defending this great land we call america.

very little people realize that the soldiers on the front line do more than defend liberty. they make sure we have it from now on and forever. not to mention that the soldiers dying breath moves the flag, not the wind.

[Rash]

Great pictures Melvin and Vudu.

[Guppy35]

Gotta bump this one back to the top.  474th FG P38 driver Lt. Oliver Berg, Cottonwood, Minnesota.  Lots of others to remember too, but he popped into my head first.



He's the one sitting.