HONORING THE FALLEN....MEMORIAL DAY

[ladypanther]

So many have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can enjoy our freedom as well as others around the world.  Today is for honoring the fallen and the families who loved them.  Also an enormous thanks to those who have served or are now serving who put their lives on the line to protect us all. Memorial Day  is a solemn day (or should be) to recognize the enormous cost of freedom.

 

Memorial Day (originally kn

 

Originally known as Decoration Day[1]) is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.[2] From 1868 to 1970, it was observed on May 30.[3] Since 1970, it is observed on the last Monday of May.

Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day to honor and mourn those who died while serving in the U.S. military. 

The first national observance of Memorial Day occurred on May 30, 1868.[5] Then known as Decoration Day, the holiday was proclaimed by Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic to honor the Union soldiers who had died in the Civil War.

Official recognition as a holiday spread among the states, beginning with New York in 1873.[7] By 1890, every Union state had adopted it. The world wars turned it into a day of remembrance for all members of the U.S. military who fought and died in service. In 1971, Congress standardized the holiday as "Memorial Day" and changed its observance to the last Monday in May.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day#References

 

 

 

 

 

[LinvilleGorge]

 

 

[ladypanther]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

 

 

Have not heard that on before.  Thanks for posting.  Definitely worth listening.

[Pejorative Miscreant]

As an older guy with children on the cusp adulthood you realize that a lot of the fallen are basically kids. Young guys and girls in the prime of their lives making the ultimate sacrifice.    

[FuFuLamePoo]

 

 

[ClawOn]

Good post ladypanther.

Miss you pops. 

[Khyber53]

4 hours ago, Pejorative Miscreant said:

As an older guy with children on the cusp adulthood you realize that a lot of the fallen are basically kids. Young guys and girls in the prime of their lives making the ultimate sacrifice.    

As my daughter turned 18 this year and my son 15, that has been weighing heavily on me. My great grandfather was in France during WW1 and he had just turned 18. He drove a mule team carrying supplies to the front and I remember him telling me that the mules were more valuable than he was -- in case of a gas attack he had to put the masks on the mules before he could put his own on. At the end of the war, the mules were loaded onto a train and he had to march back to the port.

The mules, of course, probably weren't going back to America, but probably to slaughterhouses to feed hungry French people after the war.

It was a grim, grim thing we sent his generation and the ones to come into. We should honor them by  truly working toward both peace and freedom.

[GRWatcher]

Thank you, @ladypanther.

[rayzor]

I'll just say that Memorial day both makes me sad and pisses me off because we send innocent kids into nightmare situations to do horrible things and many don't come back alive and few come back whole.

We send them in, especially these last nearly 20 years because the leadership of this country got into a war they should never have entered and now can't figure a way out of.

I appreciate the sacrificial spirit, but I don't appreciate a leadership that can't find a way to take them out of harm's way.

And I really don't appreciate the way the leadership of this country ignores and/or fights against the long term needs of these soldiers when they return.

Basically, fug this government. Best thing we can do to remember/honor the sacrifice of these soldiers is to stop sacrificing more.

Bring them all home dammit. Bring them home and take care of them. They deserve it. We don't deserve them.

[Cullenator]

Didnt want to be the one responsible for getting this tossed to the TB so thanks for saying that in a more level headed way than I would have@rayzor

Edited May 29, 2023 by Cullenator

[WarHeel]

4 hours ago, FuFuLamePoo said:

 

 

On another note, here’s a great example of why it’s important to understand the difference between Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Armed Forces Day. 

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, rayzor said:

I'll just saythay Memorial day both makes me sad and pisses me off because we send innocent kids into nightmare situations to do horrible things and many don't come back alive and few come back whole.

We send them in, especially these last nearly 20 years because the leadership of this country got 8bto a war they should never gave entered and now can't figure a way out of.

I appreciate the sacrificial spirit, but I don't appreciate a leadership that can't find a way to take them out of harm's way.

And I really don't appreciate the way the leadership of this country ignores and/or fights against the long term needs of these soldiers when they return.

Basically, fug this government. Best thing we can do to remember be the sacrifice of these soldiers is to stop sacrificing more.

Bring them all home dammit. Bring them home and take care of them. They deserve it. We don't deserve them.

Our foreign policy in the post-WWII era has been nothing short of disastrously atrocious.

[PantherOnTheProwl1523]

2 hours ago, WarHeel said:

On another note, here’s a great example of why it’s important to understand the difference between Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Armed Forces Day. 

These three are connected and with little differences and are very close in relation to each another.

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

Just now, PantherOnTheProwl1523 said:

These three are connected and with little differences and are very close in relation to each another.

Disagree respectfully. Memorial Day is simply for those and their families who payed the ultimate sacrifice and that’s it. It is fundamentally different to Veterans Day.