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Premod70 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 873 Location: North Carolina Joined: Jan 16^th, 2016	Memorial Day May 24^th, 2022 at 8:27pm	Print Post
	With the day growing nearer lets as Americans thank those parents and spouses of our fallen servicemen and women. A little acknowledgement means a lot around this time and no one deserves our respect more than them. Also raise a toast to the fallen, I’m sure they will appreciate the gester. God bless them all.
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GunBum Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 301 Location: SW Missouri Joined: Oct 30^th, 2021	Re: Memorial Day Reply #1 - May 25^th, 2022 at 8:23am	Print Post
	Thanks for the reminder. Although a good gesture is probably better in these times than a good jester.


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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Online deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 12382 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Memorial Day Reply #2 - May 25^th, 2022 at 9:11am	Print Post
	You can change "jester" to gesture.

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Ray_Newman Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 274 Location: Washington State Joined: Jul 13^th, 2004	Re: Memorial Day Reply #3 - May 26^th, 2022 at 10:37pm	Print Post
	Since Memorial Day -- Decoration Day as it was once known -- is about & for those who made the Supreme Sacrifice, lest I forget those I served with in Echo-2-12, 1965-67: PFC David L Felt , USMC, DOB 04/05/46, Sacramento, CA KIA 08/17/65 Lt. Peter Paul Domiano, USMC, DOB 10/18/43, Industry, NY KIA 07/01/66 PFC Billy Dean Nelson, USMC, DOB 06/30/47, Lommis, NE KIA 07/20/66 PCF Bradley Alan Pearson, USMC, DOB 11/27/46,Clear Lake, WI KIA 07/20/66 And most of all: PFC John Alton Girod JR, USMC, DOB 06/14/44, Denham Springs, LA KIA 02/21/66 The German song "Ich hatte einen Kameraden" --"I had a comrade" is played on German Remembrance Day . Part of it goes: A bullet flew towards us meant for me or meant for you? It took him away, he lies beneath my feet like a piece of myself. In the case of Johnny, if it wasn’t for him, it would have hit me....

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Kurt_701 Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 1057 Location: Missouri Joined: May 20^th, 2004	Re: Memorial Day Reply #4 - May 26^th, 2022 at 11:37pm	Print Post
	Semper Fi

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Premod70 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 873 Location: North Carolina Joined: Jan 16^th, 2016	Re: Memorial Day Reply #5 - May 27^th, 2022 at 9:36am	Print Post
	GunBum wrote on May 25^th, 2022 at 8:23am: Thanks for the reminder. Although a good gesture is probably better in these times than a good jester. Thanks for catching the mistake. Somehow my tablet was reading diction from the Netherlands and the spellcheck was killing my scribing. Thank God for 12 year old computer operators, I’m now back to English!


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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: Memorial Day Reply #6 - May 27^th, 2022 at 11:54pm	Print Post
	Memorial Day reminds me of my 6th Great Grandfather Stephen Longwell. His elbow was wounded while retreating from Long Island with George Washington on August 30, 1776. He could no longer operate a musket. He spent the rest of the war in the artillery corps. I thank all for their service since then.

	"some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence
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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Online deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 12382 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Memorial Day Reply #7 - May 28^th, 2022 at 5:49am	Print Post
	Schuetzenmiester wrote on May 27^th, 2022 at 11:54pm: Memorial Day reminds me of my 6th Great Grandfather Stephen Longwell. His elbow was wounded while retreating from Long Island with George Washington on August 30, 1776. He could no longer operate a musket. He spent the rest of the war in the artillery corps. I thank all for their service since then. Which reminds me of Uncle Adolph who fell overboard and was lost at sea during WW1. Way to go uncle Adolph.

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MrTipUp Frequent Elocutionist Offline Quality is to a product what character is to a man Posts: 1404 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 19^th, 2020	Re: Memorial Day Reply #8 - May 28^th, 2022 at 6:34am	Print Post
	Three of my mother's brothers served in WWI. There are photos of them proudly posing in their new uniforms. Typically, they could never be induced to talk about their experiences, except in a broadly humorous vein. For example, the oldest was a cook, and his brothers claimed he killed more allies with his cooking than the Germans did. Bill Lawrence


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ndnchf Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1122 Joined: Mar 6^th, 2014	Re: Memorial Day Reply #9 - May 28^th, 2022 at 4:24pm	Print Post
	A walk through the cemetery is a very sobering thing. Today my VFW post put American flags on about 700 veteran's graves. It was a big job, but reading those tombstones made it easy to do. I drove my old truck. I figured many of those veterans would have been very familiar with it. We are also handing out buddy poppies this weekend in remembrance of all our men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.


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GunBum Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 301 Location: SW Missouri Joined: Oct 30^th, 2021	Re: Memorial Day Reply #10 - May 28^th, 2022 at 6:47pm	Print Post
	Augustus Vicari is the son-in-law of one of my good friends. So much harder seeing the generation after me come home in a box than it ever was seeing guys I served with.


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GunBum Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 301 Location: SW Missouri Joined: Oct 30^th, 2021	Re: Memorial Day Reply #11 - May 28^th, 2022 at 6:54pm	Print Post
	Jordan Byrd was a good friend of my oldest daughter. He died trying to give aid to another soldier, who survived, and received the Silver Star for his actions. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)


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ISS Oldtimer Offline Posts: 570 Joined: Feb 24^th, 2013	Re: Memorial Day Reply #12 - May 28^th, 2022 at 7:01pm	Print Post
	I salute three: my Grandfather, who was a farrier in WWI, and a member of the 40 and 8 unit. my Father, who was assigned to the eighty-deuce (82nd Airborne) and went into Normandy. my brother Ed, jr, who was a triage medic in RVN. His job was the worst; he had to sort casualties into three groups. Those who had light wounds, and could wait. Those who had serious wounds, and needed emergency treatment to save their lives. And those sad soldiers and marines who had received terminal injuries and could only be sedated and placed in a corner to be prayed over by the chaplain before their death. He never got over that. Me, I was assigned to a MAC-V-SOG Advisory Team and then two tours with the Ranger Company attached to the 23rd Inf Division in Chu Lai, and then Danang with the 106th LIB. We take this time to salute those who sacrificed all for their country, and those who served and survive to this day. Sua Sponte and Semper Fi!


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MrTipUp Frequent Elocutionist Offline Quality is to a product what character is to a man Posts: 1404 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 19^th, 2020	Re: Memorial Day Reply #13 - May 28^th, 2022 at 11:23pm	Print Post
	At least through the early 1950s, I vividly remember veterans, mostly from WWI I'd guess, giving out paper poppies and pins all over our downtown. By the 1960s, perhaps because of Vietnam, that tradition had stopped, at least where I lived. But I still remember In Flanders Fields. And I believe that more than ever, we must keep faith and pass on the torch of freedom, even given the veiled threats of nuclear retaliation by the Mad Russian. Bill Lawrence


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