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re: Visiting Arlington National Cemetery this week.
Posted on 3/16/17 at 8:27 pm to Wolfhound45
Posted on 3/16/17 at 8:27 pm to Wolfhound45
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RLTW
ATW....
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Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:23 pm to Crow Pie
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For me, it was the scale of it all. So many did so much....
Same way I felt at the Viet Nam wall.
Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:28 pm to lsubkd
Go on a tour group. I went on a tour last year and thought it was kinda fricked up that I was there on a tour bus driving by as a family buried a veteran. But it's a beautiful and historic place
Fun fact: The view from the Arlington House was JFK's favorite view of DC. And that is why he's buried right there a little bit down the hill
Fun fact: The view from the Arlington House was JFK's favorite view of DC. And that is why he's buried right there a little bit down the hill
This post was edited on 3/16/17 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:30 pm to Wolfhound45
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Spent my first three years in the military (81-84) as a member of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). Performed many simple honor funerals there. An incredibly sobering and somber place.
I remember reading George C. Scott having similar duty in the immediate post-WW2 era, and he said it damn near made an alcoholic of him.
Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:34 pm to biglego
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I found the Normandy cemetery where the D-day casualties are buried to be more impactful.
Two of Teddy Roosevelts sons are buried there. Quentin was a pilot in WW1 and was shot down. Teddy Jr was a General who was a MOH recipient and died in France about a month after the landings (also had some clashes with Patton and Omar Bradley concerning his style of command).
Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:34 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Buddy of mine was in the bugler rotation for a while
Said the emotions and the physical fitness requirements almost killed him
Said the emotions and the physical fitness requirements almost killed him
Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:38 pm to 777Tiger
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done to piss off RELee
But, it didn't. Lee was above such crap.
Posted on 3/16/17 at 9:38 pm to GetCocky11
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Teddy Jr was a General who was a MOH recipient and died in France about a month after the landings (also had some clashes with Patton and Omar Bradley concerning his style of command).
As I recall, Roosevelt was Terry de la Mesa Allen's assistant division commander, and they both liked to take a drink.
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