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Happy & Safe weekend everybody...

You too, Swamp!

It's raining here, alas... but we're cooking out anyways.

Wishing everyone a safe one. I will be working it is the busiest time of the year at work! LOL At least on Monday I will be getting paid well for my headache!

The start of the 101 critical days.....everyone be safe with what they are doing.....

Happy Memorial Day......and don't forget to fly your flag......

"In Flanders Fields"

By Lt. John McCrae of the Canadian Army, 1872-1918

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

From this day to the ending of the world,

But we in it shall be remembered;

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother;

"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom".

Abraham Lincoln

the one and only thing about this weekend that bothers me is that in most Americans eyes it has just become a 3 day weekend to go away and go camping. Let us not forget those men and women of the armed forces who not only served but for those that gave there lives to potect this great country and to ensure our freedoms so people may take a 3 day weekend.

Edward Peterson ww1

Glenard Peterson WW2

Bill Thompson WW2

Jerry Thompson Cuban missle crisis

Ralp Peterson Vietnam

Jerry Thompson 2nd Panama

Is that quote from the movie Dead Poet's Society Hunter? It sounds very familiar....Excellent thread btw...too many people forget the real meaning behind Memorial Day. Especially since they don't celebrate it on the correct day anymore...it's all about the 3-day weekend now. It should truly be celebrated on May 30th. That's when we will fly our flag in remembrance.

The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land.

In this observance no form or ceremony is prescribed, but Posts and comrades will, in their own way, arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.

We are organized, Comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers sailors and Marines, who united to suppress the late rebellion." What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead? We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security, is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us.

Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains, and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledge to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon the Nation's gratitudethe soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan.

Thank you to all men and women past and present!

My daddy Robert L Greer

Uncle Laddie J Dixon

and my Great Great Great Grandfather Pvt. William Henry Christman, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry, first military service man interred in Arlington National Cemetery, May 13, 1864.

to my little brother Joe.

I miss you.

Happy Memorial day everybody

nrokinu, that quate is actually part of the speech from St Crisipins day. i remember it because it is the very last line said by a WW2 soldier during interviews at the very end of Band Of Brothers

Obama praises military at Arlington cemetery

President sends wreaths to Confederate and African-American memorials

I thought the President handled Memorial Day quite nicely and politically correct....Bravo........

It is actually an excerpt from the original inaugaral celebration of Decoration Day after the Civil War which is what became Memorial Day later on. They probably used it in the movie but it's origins are way back in the past.

that quate os from one of the books written by shaspear, i think it was hamlet.