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Memorial Day is most definitely about much more than picnics. I'll be at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis among the tombstones of the war dead just like I always am on Memorial Day. Remembering.
 
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Will be visiting family this weekend. My uncle, a Navy veteran, and my cousin, a Marine Corp Captain who got a purple heart in Falluja. I'm very proud of them both. Scotch and cigars will be in order.
 
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Memorial Day

Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable Holiday and to take time to remember our fallen Brothers. I just got back from the range this am it was 45 Day. 3 1911s 1 Glock 300rds of ammo and a special box of WRA 67 ball ammo to shoot out of my blue 70 series, closest i could get to military. Still looking for one hope to get it before i push up flowers. :rock::rock: RVN 1-67 to 12-68
 
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Do not forget

This is just a thank you to all of you who are in the service, or were in the service, or lost someone fighting for Our country. Have a great time but do not for get why you are getting an extra day off this coming Monday.



Again THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Because of you I still get to own and carry a gun in this country.
 
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Always remembered and ultimate sacrifices never forgotten.... I thank my fellow veterans of the past, present and future for their service to this country of ours. May God cradle the fallen in his arms and grant them eternal life in his kingdom.

God bless.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWHcObPpDc&feature=fvwrel
 
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Hope everyone finds time to salute those who served and who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. Remind your family and friends that Memorial Day ain't about shopping or sunbathing. Pay a visit to your local national cemetary and watch the ceremonies. When you come back home be sure to watch some classic war films and remember what was required to keep this nation free.















Yes, this is a good way to spend this weekend. One of the most moving experiences and humbling of my life was visiting U.S. Cemeteries from WWII, while stationed overseas.
 
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Memorial Day should never be forgotten or taken lightly. Mothers and fathers need to educate their children what this day is all about. Without someone teaching them, how are they to know....our schools don't seem to teach anything that might be politically incorrect.
 
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Bivouac Of The Dead
By Theodore O'Hara
(Written in memory of the Kentucky troops killed in the Mexican War - 1847)
Portions Of This Haunting Poem Are Inscribed On Placards
Throughout Arlington, As Well as On
The McClellan Gate There



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The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents to spread,
And glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
Nor troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dreams alarms;
No braying horn or screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.

Their shriveled swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed,
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed
Are free from anguish now.

The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout, are past;
Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.

Like the fierce Northern hurricane
That sweeps the great plateau,
Flushed with triumph, yet to gain,
Come down the serried foe,
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break o'er the field beneath,
Knew the watchword of the day
Was "Victory or death!"

Long had the doubtful conflict raged
O'er all that stricken plain,
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the glory tide;
Not long, our stout old Chieftain knew,
Such odds his strength could bide.

Twas in that hour his stern command
Called to a martyr's grave
The flower of his beloved land,
The nation's flag to save.
By rivers of their father's gore
His first-born laurels grew,
And well he deemed the sons would pour
Their lives for glory too.

For many a mother's breath has swept
O'er Angostura's plain --
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above its moldered slain.
The raven's scream, or eagle's flight,
Or shepherd's pensive lay,
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o'er that dread fray.

Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air.
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil --
The ashes of her brave.

Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest,
Far from the gory field,
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The heroes sepulcher.

Rest on embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footstep here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
For honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.

Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many a vanquished ago has flown,
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,
Nor time's remorseless doom,
Can dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your deathless tomb.
 
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I visited Arlington Cemetary once, and it was really difficult for me to keep a dry eye. That "choked up" feeling welled up inside me everywhere I went. But what bothered me more was the fact that the two ladies I was with acted like they were incredibly bored. Their interest increased when we got to JFK's gravesite, but clearly to them it was more of a tourist attraction than anything else. Some people will never understand, and I actually feel sorry for them.
 
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Best wishes and my respect to all our veterans alive or passed and to those serving today to keep this country free and the ones that brought peace and freedom around the world.
 
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