Just scroll diwn to Memorial Day and Veterans Day, difference:
https://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetday_faq.aspooh
Just scroll diwn to Memorial Day and Veterans Day, difference:
https://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetday_faq.aspooh
"The government is a child that has found their parents credit card, and spends knowing that they never have to reconcile the bill with their own money"-Shannon Churchill
I know the difference when I actually think about it. I just don't think about it. Especially now that I don't work. Every day is the same measure by whether or not the grandkids are home all day. I actually have to kick myself in the butt to make sure I remember birthdays and holidays.
Honestly, I'll probably get up, work out. Clean up around the house a little chase kids trashing it faster than I can clean it. Same thing I do every day. I might go to the church up the road that invited me to a Memorial Day service. It's a Baptist church so I probably know all the things not to say and do But they can forget the "encouraged to wear your uniform" part. Drawback is first time visit to Baptist church and they DO make an issue of welcoming you and putting the spotlight on you and THAT is definitely NOT my style.
I wonder if they ever considered that might be a turn off to some people? Let me slip in the door sit through the service and slip out and leave me alone
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
Visiting with some old friends that didn't make it...in my head …
Spending the afternoon with my favorite vets that did make it (my sons) and have friends that didn't make it. We will tell war stories about those friends and keep their memory alive at least between us if no where else. It is weird that when we do this every year we feel like we all knew those heroes though we are of different generations. It is also uncanny how similar the character of those heroes …. selfless, humble, courageous and loyal....
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
Nice, simple, and poignant.
There used to be parades at home on 'traditional' Memorial Day, May 30, which is also my birthday.
I thought as a young kid the parade was for me, but my Mom took me aside and explained the meaning
to me. With Dad assigned overseas at the time, the meaning stuck - hard!
Last edited by Elessar; 05-28-2018 at 12:27 PM.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!
And the more than 58,000 other Dads, Son's, Brothers, Uncles, and Friends.
I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
Between the Memorial Day sales, picnics and chores, let's remember: War is still hell
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/edito...528-story.html
I have always viewed Memorial Day and Veterans Day as a teaching experience for my daughter. As a non-military family, we never experienced anything first hand. So you have to approach it otherwise.
Today, we started out at Los Angeles Memorial Cemetery for an observance of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Then we went to the All Wars Memorial in Boyle Heights. Followed by a cookout at my sister's home in East Los Angeles. Which is always a good time for all.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!
Russ’ great great great, etc., grandfather has one of these next to his headstone in Maine. He was 15 when he joined a Massachusetts regiment and fought in the Revolutionary war. We have his actual rifle, bayonet included, on our wall. Being the colonial history lover that I am, I truly am in awe of these things. I always worry someone will steal either of them. Luckily, the cemetery at least is in a small town in Maine. Fingers crossed.
My dad was a WWII vet, bronze star recipient, in the Italian campaign, as I’ve mentioned here before. Maybe we should get a marker for his grave, though the Catholic cemetery removes everything you put there in a few days.
Oldest brother is a Vietnam vet, though he was drafted and def did not want to go. He now has Parkinson’s, and the VA hospital attributes it to exposure to Agent Orange.
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
Last edited by Elessar; 05-29-2018 at 03:55 PM.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!