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Memorial Day Weekend
Topic Started: May 26 2012, 08:36 AM (782 Views)
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I know that my fellow Blog Hooligans will be honoring all those men and women who have died in our military service.

Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. (Southern ladies organizations and southern schoolchildren had decorated Confederate graves in Richmond and other cities during the Civil War, but each region had its own date. Most dates were in May.) By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. As a marker it typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.
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In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


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A nation that forgets to honor those who have given their lives to protect its freedoms is a nation that will surrender those freedoms as by that deliberate action of forgetting has demonstated those freedoms are worthless. - Hopefully citizens of this country will remember this not only this weekend but every day.
Edited by cks, May 26 2012, 08:44 AM.
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kbp

We are lucky to have had such honorable and dedicated men that gave the lives for us.






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...deliberate action of forgetting

You sound like my wife. If I forget something, she somehow determines it was "deliberate".
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kbp
May 26 2012, 11:05 AM
We are lucky to have had such honorable and dedicated men that gave the lives for us.






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...deliberate action of forgetting

You sound like my wife. If I forget something, she somehow determines it was "deliberate".
kbp - won't wade into that one.....




However, I do think, as a nation, there is a movement afoot among the educational elites to forget. Look at how history is being downplayed in the schools, the national observances that once were a hallmark - taught and celebrated - now barely get a mention. THat is the first step on the path of forgetting.
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cks
May 26 2012, 02:52 PM
kbp
May 26 2012, 11:05 AM
We are lucky to have had such honorable and dedicated men that gave the lives for us.






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...deliberate action of forgetting

You sound like my wife. If I forget something, she somehow determines it was "deliberate".
kbp - won't wade into that one.....




However, I do think, as a nation, there is a movement afoot among the educational elites to forget. Look at how history is being downplayed in the schools, the national observances that once were a hallmark - taught and celebrated - now barely get a mention. THat is the first step on the path of forgetting.
You just described selective memory

...so maybe my wife is correct sometimes!
Edited by kbp, May 26 2012, 03:54 PM.
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The biggest regret of my life: not serving in the military.. How best to make up for it: learn as much as practicable about why this nation has been worth dying for.. If we fail as civilians to resist those in our midst who erode the foundations of freedom, who belittle the epochal role of America in the march of history, we deserve to be scorned by the shades of those who gave their lives to safeguard much, much more than our comfort.
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“What is past is prologue” This quote is by William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest act II, scene i, lines 253–54

George Santana’s , "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

The History of the World is really a re-write. When we don't teach the younger generation about the cost of freedom we are dooming them
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May 26 2012, 09:12 PM
The biggest regret of my life: not serving in the military.. How best to make up for it: learn as much as practicable about why this nation has been worth dying for.. If we fail as civilians to resist those in our midst who erode the foundations of freedom, who belittle the epochal role of America in the march of history, we deserve to be scorned by the shades of those who gave their lives to safeguard much, much more than our comfort.

Who did you quote there? As much credit and envy as I have for your work with words, surely you borrowed that from somebody we’d all know of.
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kbp
May 27 2012, 12:30 AM
Who did you quote there? . . . {S]urely you borrowed that from somebody we’d all know of.
Before asking such a question, you should find better strings of words than mine.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/lacrosse-blog/bal-richie-meade-on-meaning-of-memorial-day-20120526,0,1006746.story

Richie Meade on meaning of Memorial Day

Former Navy, Army coach urges Americans to remember significance behind holiday weekend

10:00 a.m. EDT, May 27, 2012

As the former head coach at Navy for 17 years and an assistant coach at Army for three seasons, Richie Meade has an enduring respect for this country’s armed forces.

So it perhaps was not a stretch to see the new Furman coach get choked up during the university’s news conference Saturday when talking about the timing of his introduction on Memorial Day.

Meade, whose eyes brimmed with tears and took a few moments to compose himself, mentioned former Navy midfielder Brendan Looney, a Navy Seal and Silver Spring native who was one of nine U.S. militarypersonnel killed in a helicopter crash in September 2010 in southern Afghanistan, and former Duke midfielder James John Regan, an Army Ranger who was killed when his vehicle was struck by an explosive in February 2007 in northern Iraq.

“Everybody’s pretty aware of where I’ve been the last 25 years,” Meade said. “… I have and do cherish all the interactions with the kids. And not necessarily the games. the outcome of games, the winning, the losing, the press conferences, all that stuff is part of the job. The early-morning workouts, in the weight room, those significant conversations that you have with young men, you’ll never forget the rest of our life, and they never forget. That’s one of the things I’ve missed. One of the things I’m proud of is that every single individual that I’ve coached at West Point and at the Naval Academy has gone to war. Their sacrifices have been significant. We’ve been very fortunate and blessed. We lost one of our men, Brendan Looney, and everybody’s well aware of that. I’m thankful to the NCAA that Brendan Looney’s going to be recognized on Monday. I’m thankful to the NCAA that Jimmy Regan who was an outstanding student-athlete at Duke University and was an Army Ranger who lost his life in the defense of our cause [is going to be recognized]. We should never forget. This is a great day for me and my family, but this weekend is about celebrating the sacrifice and the tremendous generation of kids that have defended our freedom. The lessons I’ve learned from those young man are going to be a constant source of motivation and inspiration to me as I move forward, and I will think of that every day for the rest of my life.”


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I always think of the picture of James Reagan's fiancee on his gravesite - the tragedy and sacrifice that service to country entails not just for those who gave their lives but for their loved ones who lose a part of themselves as well.
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On Memoiral Day, we pause to remember the sacrifice of our brave troops and their families.

Let's hope that the lives of our brave young men and women are not wasted on wars which benefit and are contrived by only a few. Our best memorial to those we have lost to war is to strive to prevent war if at all possible. To do that requires one to look beyond the myths and propaganda and cliches.
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http://www.startribune.com/local/127347018.html

Photo of eagle on Fort Snelling gravestone touches hearts, goes viral
Article by: JON TEVLIN , Star Tribune
Updated: August 10, 2011

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Yes, absolutely.

Great Men. Great Sacrifices.

And to their Families that also made great sacrifices.

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