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Title: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: Wayout on May 26, 2008, 06:00:23 AM

I'm going fishing.

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Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: Rich46yo on May 26, 2008, 06:06:28 AM

Gotta work. Gotta work most holidays, tho since I became a dad I try and get X-mas's off.

Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: Pooh21 on May 26, 2008, 06:09:24 AM

Drunk off me arse singing German drinking songs.

Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: DiabloTX on May 26, 2008, 06:13:46 AM

Sleeping.  Then working.

Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: MrBill on May 26, 2008, 07:07:27 AM

I'll be here as a volunteer helper.

New Mexico's Vietnam Veterans Memorial (http://www.angelfirememorial.com/index.html)

Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: gunnss on May 26, 2008, 05:06:43 PM

I work for the DOT FAA,
And have to work.

MrBill drop me a note and we can go kill a few beers, I live in Rio Rancho. Thanks for helping with the memorial open house.

Regards,
Kevin

Quote from: MrBill on May 26, 2008, 07:07:27 AM

I'll be here as a volunteer helper.

New Mexico's Vietnam Veterans Memorial (http://www.angelfirememorial.com/index.html)

Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: eskimo2 on May 26, 2008, 05:24:47 PM

Today one of my daughters marched in the Cuyahoga Falls Memorial Day Parade with her Daisy/Girl Scouts troop.  My wife, other daughters and I dropped off the parade Daisy and drove to the end of the parade.  Oakwood Cemetery was the end of the route so walked through and read gravestones while we waited for the parade to reach us.
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2008/may/parade_headstones_640.jpg)

The end of the parade and entrance to the cemetery was adorned with over 4,000 yellow ribbons.
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2008/may/parade_yellow_ribbons_640.jpg)

  Each ribbon had a tag with the name of a fallen Gulf War soldier.  I decided to read tags until I found a female soldier.  Once at home I researched the one I found.  Sgt. Cari Anne Gasiewicz, 28, spoke fluent Arabic and served as an interpreter in a military intelligence unit of the Army; she was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.  Also in the picture are the tags of of Joe J. Garza and Juan Guadalupe Garza Jr.  Army 1st Sgt. Joe J. Garza, 43, was killed in a vehicular accident in Baghdad. He was my age when he died.  He had three children and had been married 24 years. Marine Pfc. Juan Guadalupe Garza Jr. was killed by a sniper; he was newlywed.  The ribbons and research brought Memorial Day home for me.  (The portraits are not part of the tags.)
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2008/may/parade_garza_garza_gasiewicz_640.jpg)

The Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi was my favorite of the parade.
(http://hallbuzz.com/images/2008/may/parade_suribachi_flag_640.jpg)

Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: DiabloTX on May 26, 2008, 07:06:54 PM

I am enjoying my freedom, no matter how much the gov't wants to intrude on it, because of the sacrifices of those who came before me, and currently serve now, and to those that will be serving in the future, I have only one thing to say.


Thank you.


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Title: Re: How do you plan to spend Memorial Day?
Post by: MrBill on May 26, 2008, 07:18:58 PM

gunnss:

ALB huh? whatcha working? ... I spent 2 years in Oak Center installing the new mainframes back in 98-99.  The kid worked scopes there for 18 years ... now he is doing upgrades in EWR ... he will be in DEN later this year and depending on the waterfall might get ALB.

Beer sounds great got any good pizza to go with it?