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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Chris on May 25, 2009, 02:15:28 PM
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Memorial Day is best known as the "unofficial start of summer" and as such has lost the true meaning and history of this holiday.
Many communities started a memorial day to honor the war dead of the War Between the States. Some even began as the war was closing. Some cite the first memorial days conducted in Kingston, Georgia in 1865 for both Confederate and Union while still occupied by remnants of Sherman's army and is the longest continuous observation. Some cite liberated ex-slaves in Charleston in 1865 originating the holiday. However, the official birthplace of Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York. The village was credited with being the birthplace because it observed the day on May 5, 1866.
This year May 5th marked the 141th Anniversary of General Order No. 11 creating Decoration Day from Maj. Gen. John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the premier organization of Union veterans. General Logan, who served in the 31st Illinois, is said to have been impressed by the way the South honored their dead with a special day. He decided the Union dead needed a similar day. He established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers declared that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30. It is believed that date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country and is because it was not the anniversary of a major battle.
May 30, 1866 flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery....
(more) (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/25/history-memorial-day/)
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Thank you for posting this Chris.
Words cannot express my gratitude for those who answered the call to serve our great country. My thoughts and prayers are with each and every one of our men and women serving in uniform today. My heart goes out to all of the families and friends of those who paid the ultimate sacrifce so that I can live in freedom.
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That is one damn fine looking 8 year old Marine right there. Note how straight he stands, head up, shoulders squared away, even in his hour of sorrow, daddy was doing a great job, setting a good example. May the good lord bless him and his mother. May he bring honor to his fathers memory.
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Honor upon the fallen warriors and the future generations which will stand vigilant because of them.
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That is one damn fine looking 8 year old Marine right there. Note how straight he stands, head up, shoulders squared away, even in his hour of sorrow, daddy was doing a great job, setting a good example. May the good lord bless him and his mother. May he bring honor to his fathers memory.
This is EXACTLY why our brave young men become Marines! The example they give us is something some Americans cannot or will not recognize! Specifically DUmpster Divers!
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Thank goodness Obama got a round of golf in today :naughty:
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-obama-memorial-day,0,3779689.story
yada, yada, yada....last sentence:
Later in the day, the president headed to Fort Belvoir, Va., to play golf.
...guess he's all caught up at the office? :tongue:
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Thank goodness Obama got a round of golf in today :naughty:
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-obama-memorial-day,0,3779689.story
yada, yada, yada....last sentence:
...guess he's all caught up at the office? :tongue:
SOB!!!!! You would think on Memorial Day this empty suit could at least show a little respect!
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SOB!!!!! You would think on Memorial Day this empty suit could at least show a little respect!
He did show a little, very little, but that is to be expected from someone that only tolerates the military as his plaything.
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He did show a little, very little, but that is to be expected from someone that only tolerates the military as his plaything.
I don't think it is his plaything, more like the thorn in his side.
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We honor the brave and the bold who gave their all for us.
Others hang the drapes.
My brother and father; WW 2 and 1....came home safe...served proudly....