This Memorial Day, take 2 minutes to remember our Vets...

Started by TheManOnTheStreet, May 28, 2006, 06:42 AM

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contrarymary

I'm so glad T is not being memorialized today -USAF Captain in Viet Nam (I'll pass on saying during which years he served) and decorated too, but he doesn't like to talk about it.  Very modest man.

I didn't agree with that war, either, but I respect that T felt he should give something back to his country. He volunteered for Viet Nam and came back anti-war for the most part.

I would not have served if drafted. I would have served as a CO.  I would not have volunteered and it would never have crossed my mind.  

Today, I feel compulsory service of some sort should be required of all Americans.  I don't care if it's picking up trash for two weeks. People are too damned selfish and too damned self-entitled these days.  I don't like what's going on in our government, but I still feel we all owe.
quot;I can resist anything but temptation."

 Oscar Wilde

johnnyp

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Oh, Johnny.  I cried after those posts.


Me too - the endless sea of headstones makes real the numbers and gravity of their sacrifice
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johnnyp

Grand total KIA body count from WWII to 5/04
Male 503,040
Female 448


US Cemetery Iwo Jima



SICILY-ROME AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL


AISNE-MARNE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL


ARDENNES AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Belgium


BRITTANY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


BROOKWOOD AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - England


CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - England


COROZAL AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Panama


EPINAL AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


FLANDERS FIELD AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Belgium


FLORENCE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Italy


HENRI-CHAPELLE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Belgium


LORRAINE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France
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johnnyp

LUXEMBOURG AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Luxembourg


MEUSE-ARGONNE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


MANILA AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Philippines


MEXICO CITY NATIONAL CEMETERY - Mexico


NETHERLANDS AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Holland


NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


NORTH AFRICA AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - Tunisia


OISE-AISNE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


RHONE AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


SOMME AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


ST. MIHIEL AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


SURESNES AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL - France


Vietnam Memorial - Washington, DC




Korean War Memorial - Washington, DC


Guadalcanal
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TheManOnTheStreet

As did I CM.  Those images are so moving.  

TMOTS
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johnnyp

 woman needs a man like a fish needs water

johnnyp

 woman needs a man like a fish needs water

johnnyp

Tomb of the Unknowns - Arlington, Virginia

Inscription reads:
HERE RESTS IN
HONORED GLORY
AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
KNOWN BUT TO GOD

 woman needs a man like a fish needs water

johnnyp

 woman needs a man like a fish needs water

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