Remembering the Fallen

[kotori]

Before you're off to you picnic or the beach or whatever it is you do on a fine late spring holiday, take a moment to remember those that served.

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[Lost Cause]

http://www.defendamerica.mil/fallen.html


http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/2005/Memorial-Day-2005/index.html

 

[linuxgeek]

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It wasn't until I just ran across this that I realized The Wall is layed out like a rank stripe.

 

[zipman]

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It wasn't until I just ran across this that I realized The Wall is layed out like a rank stripe.

I didn't either. Thanks.

 

[linuxgeek]

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[Guest]

 

[kbate]

I'm not sure if the rank stripe is on purpose or not. I go to the wall several times a month and the story they tell there is that the shape is supposed to symbolize as scar on America. Hence, the shape and the "cut" into the ground.

It is difficult to walk the length of the Vietnam wall without shedding a tear.

The Korean War Memorial in the night is one of my favorite sights in D.C.

The World War Two Memorial for me has no feeling. I walk, look and read, but I get no deep emotional feeling from this monument.

A walk through Arlington to visit one special grave always saddens me and leaves me in awe.

 

[JammieDodger]

So, um, why can I not recall what war I'm assuming the anniversary of is today? What am I meant to be remembering, exactly? Someone give a dog a bone here! Ahah, bone...

 

[veryblueeyes]

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Thank you Linuxgeek, though I think this is one of the few times, a tear has come to my eye from reading/seeing something on Lit.

 

[kotori]

So, um, why can I not recall what war I'm assuming the anniversary of is today? What am I meant to be remembering, exactly? Someone give a dog a bone here! Ahah, bone...

No particular war, though the day was established at the end of our Civil War. Frankly, it competes with Armistice Day (which we've changed to "Veterans Day" here). Today is to remember the dead--Veterans Day is for those still living.

I'm not all "Dulce et decorum est pro patria morii" or anything. But it's worth taking a moment to remember.

It is difficult to walk the length of the Vietnam wall without shedding a tear...

I know I have.

 

[Epiphany]

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This is one of the most touching images I've seen.

Thank lg.

 

[Desert Amazon]

Today is to remember the dead--

And as I watch the news and read the papers it makes me even angrier at the senseless loss of life in Iraq over the past several years during this non-war...

As an Air Force brat and a veteran, this day seems to leave me with a really heavy heart.

 

[landslider]

Turned 19 in Vietnam myself, so thanks for the thread.

As to the overall historical merit of this or that war, it makes little difference to the soldier seeking to stay alive.

If you perish in the Hundred Years War -- or a "noble" effort like WW II, or in a controversial war like Vietnam or Iraq -- the existential import is the same.

 

[veryblueeyes]

And as I watch the news and read the papers it makes me even angrier at the senseless loss of life in Iraq over the past several years during this non-war...

As an Air Force brat and a veteran, this day seems to leave me with a really heavy heart.

SaraPet, you expressed exactly what I did.

Amazon, having lost a *I don't what to call him*, but my Papa's brother in a War, my SO being an entire military family and hearing the stories from my great uncle, I too am saddened by the loss in Iraq. From my great uncle, I have, not what I would call memorabilia, guns used to fight in WWII. A German helmet, my great Uncle has with a hole through it.

This is not only a day to remember the US that fought and died, it is to remember EVERYONE. I don't care what nationality it is.

 

[ksmybuttons]

Iraq

American Deaths since war began (3/19/03): 1657

Wounded: 12350

These are the ones I mourn today.

 

[Paendragon]

Went to my father's grave. They had a nice ceremony, with an F-15 (I think) flyby.

I miss the old man.

 

[modest mouse]

Thanks, all you fine men and women.





And a nod toward the Govt hoping we can move back to a non-Monday Memorial Day. Its insulting to move a Holiday for the sake of vacations and sales.

 

[wideeyedgrin]

Vermont still officially recognizes May 30th as Memorial Day, so it causes a split personality some years, like this one. The Federal offices are shut down today, and the state offices are shut down tomorrow. Town levels have it as confusing at times.

 

[modest mouse]

Vermont still officially recognizes May 30th as Memorial Day, so it causes a split personality some years, like this one. The Federal offices are shut down today, and the state offices are shut down tomorrow. Town levels have it as confusing at times.

Thats why Vermont is greatness. My town back there had a Memorial Day parade regardless of whatver Monday crap went on. It paid appropriate honor to those passed and those still among us.

 

[Holly Delight]

It is difficult to walk the length of the Vietnam wall without shedding a tear.

kbate, I cry every time I visit the Vietnam wall. I cannot walk the length of it without crying either. Sometime you are at the Smithsonian, visit the exhibit of items left at the wall. If you shed a tear at the wall, you will need the whole box of Kleenex to get through this exhibit.

And KMB, I think of those wounded men and women a lot also. There are many horribly wounded in this war who, if they had received their wounds in a prior war, would have died. Now they are alive and having to go on with a life they had never, ever imagined. I have a bad feeling the suicide rate for Iraq and Afghanistan wounded will be very high in the coming years.

 

[phrodeau]

Bump for the day.