Gunday Monday, Memorial Day, “Lest we forget.”

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Contributed by Wild, wild West.

1)WWW:

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Captain John Parker said “Let It Begin Here at Lexington” [and] was dead of tuberculosis in five months.

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Rockets Red Glare & Old Glory at Ft. McHenry 1814.

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Barbary Pirates.

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Mexican American War.

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Texas Memorial at Vicksburg.

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Required Reading.

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America’s Longest War.

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T.R. with 1st US Volunteer Cavalry in Cuba.

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T.R.’s son Quentin bought the farm in France.

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USMC in Nicaragua – Smedley Butler said War is a Racket.

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Teddy Roosevelt, Jr died of a heart attack in France.

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WWII – Europe.

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WWII – Pacific (Saipan).

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Required Reading.

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Punchbowl National Cemetery of the Pacific.

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Korea.

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Required Reading.

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The Cold War. Eyeball-to-Eyeball at Checkpoint Charlie.

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Viet Nam.

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Viet Nam, Marines at Hue City.

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Grenada, 1983.

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Lebanon, 1983.

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Just Cause, Panama 1989.

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Desert Storm, 1991.

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Somalia Intervention, 1993.

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Kosovo Intervention, 1999.

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Afghanistan, 2001.

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Iraq Invasion, 2003.

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Iran, here we go again…

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Pray we don’t get fooled again.

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34)Cederq:

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Radney Foster – Angel Flight (Radio Tower Remix)

This weekend is Memorial Day, the traditional BBQ kickoff to summer.  But on these shores, it’s the day to remember the fallen from past – and current – wars.  The day was originally called Decoration Day, the date was at the very beginning of summer so that wild flowers would be available everywhere for families to decorate the graves of their fallen loved ones.

Many had no graves to decorate, as their loved one had an anonymous foreign grave for their final rest.  Today the Texas Air National Guard (and others) bring the fallen home on “Angel Flights”.  This weekend, remember them.  Both the quick and the dead.

H/T to Borepatch, https://borepatch.blogspot.com/

15 thoughts on “Gunday Monday, Memorial Day, “Lest we forget.””

  1. Back in 64 or 65 I was a Boy Scout and helped put flags on the graves in the Punchbowl.

    • Hey Rob,
      me too. Me and brother were there. Our troop out of Kaneohe. A very moving experience.

  5. Thank You! An excellent tribute to the men and women who gave all for us.

    ET3 USN ’64-’68

  9. Amen

    3 Just the other day I was lamenting my screw up of not visiting Ft. McHenry when I was in Baltimore

    37 Been a Radney Foster fan for years, especially this one.

        • I’ll correct that oversight next year, God willing. Apparently, I was at the mall with the rest of America while all that was going on and never got the straight of it. But I know now that CederQ had a less than enjoyable time there and will not overlook it in the future.

  10. Just back from Kosovo. One of the dwindling number of countries that love America for help in driving the invading Serbs out.

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