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Memorial Day thread, in pictures
Posted on 5/27/19 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 5/27/19 at 1:34 pm
This thread is not about barbecues, beer, or bathing suits.
Today is Memorial Day. A day to honor and memorialize those who who took the greatest sacrifice to protect our country.
We are forever indebted to their efforts.
Post any thoughts, memories, stories, photos you may have about this day.
Just a few random ones I found to start off...
Today is Memorial Day. A day to honor and memorialize those who who took the greatest sacrifice to protect our country.
We are forever indebted to their efforts.
Post any thoughts, memories, stories, photos you may have about this day.
Just a few random ones I found to start off...
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Posted on 5/27/19 at 1:38 pm to East Coast Band
Great but heartbreaking pictures, we all forget at times what today is really about , I did not serve but my Dad was in Vietnam and my Grandfather was in WW2, Thanks for the pictures and have a great day.
Thank You to all Veterans ????????????????????
Thank You to all Veterans ????????????????????
Posted on 5/27/19 at 1:47 pm to East Coast Band
The thought of the hell our grandfathers and great grandfathers went through on the European and Pacific fronts to rid the world of tyranny and Nazism is enough to make you tremble with admiration and reverence.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 1:50 pm to East Coast Band
My badass uncle! A young marine, who gave his life in Vietnam, 68’ at the ripe age of 19.
My dad gave me his name, and I’m honored more and more every year.
I lost my dad a couple years ago, but today was always a tough day for him. My grandmother is still living and I know it’s tough on her.
This post was edited on 5/27/19 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 5/27/19 at 2:08 pm to East Coast Band
Had my father lived his birthday is today and he would be 94.
He fought all over the South Pacific and had 3 big bullet scars and a huge scar on his bicep from landing in a tree as a paratrooper who jumped from 600’. I was one of his children that actually listened to his stories but he seldom talked about combat other than to comment say “well the tree stopped me from hitting the ground at about 40 mph.”
But he enjoyed his fellow soldiers and talked quite fondly of his time not in combat. He donated a lot of money to the WWII Monument and met Bob Dole a couple of times during the fundraising period. He wasn’t afraid to jap this and chink that but he earned that right and early on would not allow anything but “Detroit iron” be bought but as most mellowed as he got older.
He came home, got a mechanical engineering degree, started a business, married, had a large family and provided very well for all while loving all of us and life as well.
He was a cool guy before anyone knew what cool was. I’m looking at him now in a photo beside his 1965/66 Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors open as a young/middle age man and how happy and proud he looks.
I miss that old man.
He fought all over the South Pacific and had 3 big bullet scars and a huge scar on his bicep from landing in a tree as a paratrooper who jumped from 600’. I was one of his children that actually listened to his stories but he seldom talked about combat other than to comment say “well the tree stopped me from hitting the ground at about 40 mph.”
But he enjoyed his fellow soldiers and talked quite fondly of his time not in combat. He donated a lot of money to the WWII Monument and met Bob Dole a couple of times during the fundraising period. He wasn’t afraid to jap this and chink that but he earned that right and early on would not allow anything but “Detroit iron” be bought but as most mellowed as he got older.
He came home, got a mechanical engineering degree, started a business, married, had a large family and provided very well for all while loving all of us and life as well.
He was a cool guy before anyone knew what cool was. I’m looking at him now in a photo beside his 1965/66 Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors open as a young/middle age man and how happy and proud he looks.
I miss that old man.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 2:10 pm to East Coast Band
One grandpa was a Navy vet and one was a Army vet that got a Purple Heart. I miss them both.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 2:14 pm to East Coast Band
“Some Gave All”
Vs 1:
High in the councils they beat their war drums,
Summoning soldiers from citizens’ sons,
Over sea and land,
Sure as sunrise they’d come,
Lambs to the slaughter,
To slake, the thirst of the guns
Chorus :
Like moths to a lamp,
In the cold and the damp
They were rallied to their demise,
In the mud and the sand,
Their blood stained no man’s land,
Just a feast for the crows and the flies,
Answering the ancient call,
All gave some,
And some gave all,
Vs 2:
Emboldened by stories,
Of glories of old,
Searching for honor,
These sons brave and bold,
Whole generations,
Who would not grow old,
Destined for death,
In the heat and the cold,
Repeat chorus
Vs 3:
Armies of old,
Meeting death mechanized,
Minds engineering them,
New ways to die,
Shattering landscapes,
While bodies piled high,
Sons stricken down,
While back home mothers’ cry,
Repeat chorus
Vs 4:
Casualties greater,
Than any before,
Death exponential,
Minds broken in more,
Broken and crippled,
And maimed by the score,
All in pursuit of the war,
To end all wars,
Repeat chorus
Yes some gave all,
They rose to the call,
In battle they’d fall,
But their bravery echoes still in the warriors hall.
Vs 1:
High in the councils they beat their war drums,
Summoning soldiers from citizens’ sons,
Over sea and land,
Sure as sunrise they’d come,
Lambs to the slaughter,
To slake, the thirst of the guns
Chorus :
Like moths to a lamp,
In the cold and the damp
They were rallied to their demise,
In the mud and the sand,
Their blood stained no man’s land,
Just a feast for the crows and the flies,
Answering the ancient call,
All gave some,
And some gave all,
Vs 2:
Emboldened by stories,
Of glories of old,
Searching for honor,
These sons brave and bold,
Whole generations,
Who would not grow old,
Destined for death,
In the heat and the cold,
Repeat chorus
Vs 3:
Armies of old,
Meeting death mechanized,
Minds engineering them,
New ways to die,
Shattering landscapes,
While bodies piled high,
Sons stricken down,
While back home mothers’ cry,
Repeat chorus
Vs 4:
Casualties greater,
Than any before,
Death exponential,
Minds broken in more,
Broken and crippled,
And maimed by the score,
All in pursuit of the war,
To end all wars,
Repeat chorus
Yes some gave all,
They rose to the call,
In battle they’d fall,
But their bravery echoes still in the warriors hall.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 2:15 pm to Martini
The wind blows silent through solemn fields, ere the break of day,
Where crickets chirp a nocturne in these places war dead lay,
Endless rows of markers hewn from alabaster stone,
These testaments to honor, all the boys who don’t come home,
Brave men who picked the rifle up, set down their tool or plow,
To answer true their country’s call, only a mem’ry now,
Sometimes they fell on native soil, sometimes in foreign lands,
To gun or bomb or bayonet, their blood stained dirt and sand,
With courage and with duty did they face the weary end,
So those of us back home could remain with kith and kin,
Now bugles play a funeral dirge, o’er crosses, stars and stones,
And falling tears remind us of the boys who don’t come home,
They did not ask the reason that they made their sacrifice,
They did not ask the cost although, they surely paid the price,
Let their names not be forgotten, or their stories left untold,
Their memories should warm us though their blood has long grown cold,
For all we’ve built is stacked upon the mounds of revered dead,
It’s writ in eyes of brothers who are left here in their stead,
So give those that have paid the tab, wherever you may roam,
A toast, in gratitude, to all the boys who don’t come home.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:25 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:25 pm to Martini
quote:
I’m looking at him now in a photo beside his 1965/66 Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors open as a young/middle age man and how happy and proud he looks.
Post the cpb (cool pic, bro) :salute:
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:40 pm to East Coast Band
Taken earlier today in BR
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:47 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 5/27/19 at 3:51 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:01 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:04 pm to East Coast Band
My great uncle
Silver StarAWARDED FOR ACTIONS
DURING World War IIService: ArmyRank: Private First ClassDivision: 97th Infantry DivisionGENERAL ORDERS:
Headquarters, 97th Infantry Division, General Orders No. 55 (1945)
KIA April 12, 1945
Silver StarAWARDED FOR ACTIONS
DURING World War IIService: ArmyRank: Private First ClassDivision: 97th Infantry DivisionGENERAL ORDERS:
Headquarters, 97th Infantry Division, General Orders No. 55 (1945)
KIA April 12, 1945
This post was edited on 5/27/19 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:09 pm to East Coast Band
This thread could go back to the Civil War, baw. Post more pics...
History Channel
History Channel
quote:
Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during World War I the United States found itself embroiled in another major conflict, and the holiday evolved to commemorate American military personnel who died in all wars. For decades, Memorial Day continued to be observed on May 30, the date Logan had selected for the first Decoration Day. But in 1968 Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which established Memorial Day as the last Monday in May in order to create a three-day weekend for federal employees; the change went into effect in 1971. The same law also declared Memorial Day a federal holiday.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 8:14 pm to ksayetiger
quote:
KIA April 12, 1945
Damn that sucks, he almost made it.
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