Memorial Day !

[Honu]

thought this was cool they got a little press
our AZ homeschool group

https://www.facebook.com/nbcwashingt...5499729598606/


cant say in words the gratitude prayers and thoughts to those who have truly given everything for our country !

[SteyrAUG]

Watching "Tora, Tora, Tora" last night and I can't imagine the horrors many experienced on that day. If you were on a ship in the harbor there was literally no place to run and unlike that POS Michael Bey movie, we didn't have two hot shot pilots "playing chicken" with the japs that morning. Two pilots did get in the air that day and did score victories, but there was no meaningful air defense for the most part.

2,403 killed and 1,178 wounded that morning.

[usmcvet]

thought this was cool they got a little press
our AZ homeschool group

https://www.facebook.com/nbcwashingt...5499729598606/


cant say in words the gratitude prayers and thoughts to those who have truly given everything for our country !

Thank you for sharing that with us. I was especially impressed with the young woman who was kneeling to place the flowers. She looked like she was contemplating each name and was thinking about them. That will be an effective work out. I'm sure she is feeling the burn today.

The best summer job I ever had was working for the Cemetery Department in my home town two summers in a row while going to college. It was hard work but we were outside all of the time. I loved it. Most of the time was spent mowing lawns. We helped with burials too. That's a part I did not care too much for! Being in a grave with a pick ax and shovel in between two concrete vaults was uncomfortable. I liked spending time trimming around the headstones. It gave you time to kind of meditate a little and think about those people and their lives and their deaths. So many of the stones had one side for adults and one side for children. It was heartbreaking even though many of the deaths occurred more than a hundred years ago.

I went to a local cemetery two weeks ago with our Boy Scout Troop, my girls helped too. We placed flags in holders in front of Veterans headstones in one section of the cemetery. It took less than an hour. All three kids want to go back again next year. The only thing that bothered me were the GAR flag holders in front of modern headstones. To me that meant there were many Civil War Veterans with out flags on their headstones.

[usmcvet]

Watching "Tora, Tora, Tora" last night and I can't imagine the horrors many experienced on that day. If you were on a ship in the harbor there was literally no place to run and unlike that POS Michael Bey movie, we didn't have two hot shot pilots "playing chicken" with the Japs that morning. Two pilots did get in the air that day and did score victories, but there was no meaningful air defense for the most part.

2,403 killed and 1,178 wounded that morning.

Yeah that's still enough to make your blood boil. My son and I watched an episode of Band of brothers. Number 5 I think. When the 101st enters Bastogne.