Memorial Day on AzBilliards

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We have an annual Veterans Day thread that resurfaces each year, but I could not find a Memorial Day thread, so I'm starting one. :smile:

This is a day to reflect on those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Many of us have been touched by this in our families or within our circle of friends.

My cousin Leslie was shot down in a helicopter over Quag Province in South Vietnam. He was in the Marine Corps. Semper Fi, Leslie. May you rest in peace!

Just this morning, I found Leslie's name on the National Vietnam Memorial Wall via this website: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

This video was made to honor the military: Some Gave.
 

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JAM said:
We have an annual Veterans Day thread that resurfaces each year, but I could not find a Memorial Day thread, so I'm starting one. :smile:

This is a day to reflect on those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Many of us have been touched by this in our families or within our circle of friends.

My cousin Leslie was shot down in a helicopter over Quag Province in South Vietnam. He was in the Marine Corps. Semper Fi, Leslie. May you rest in peace!

Just this morning, I found Leslie's name on the National Vietnam Memorial Wall via this website: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

This video was made to honor the military: Some Gave.
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Hello Jam,
I am sorry to hear about Leslie. I am glad you started this thread. A lot of people paid the Ultimate sacrifice for their country. A lot of us came back looking OK, but you still remember the events and things that went on over the big waters. and you will remember for the rest of your life. and you appreciate the things that people did for their country. I too lost some love ones and good friends in the wars as I call them.

Memorial Day, is a day to remember brothers, sisters, friends and loved ones lost in battles. may Leslie, and all the other people that lost their lives in wars, Rest In Peace!
Amen.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
I've always found it interesting that the commemoration of those who have died in war finds its roots largely in civil war. In America, of course, the mood of such commemoration dates to the American Civil War and is, arguably, built on the text and context of Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

Less known is that Lincoln's thoughts found their roots in the speech at the Ovation given annually by Pericles during the Peloponesian Wars, a de facto civil war in ancient Greece some 2400 years ago.

The concept originated by Pericles and reenforced by Lincoln is that one cannot frame the moment with words, for the deeds of those who have sacrificed ring louder than any spoken words ever could.

Our obligation is to honor, rather than speak for, those whose deeds and sacrifices spoke for themselves, and doing so is both our duty and our privilege.
 
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I've always found it interesting that the commemoration of those who have died in war finds its roots largely in civil war. In America, of course, the mood of such commemoration dates to the American Civil War and is, arguably, built on the text and context of Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

Less known is that Lincoln's thoughts found their roots in the speech at the Ovation given annually by Pericles during the Peloponesian Wars, a de facto civil war in ancient Greece some 2400 years ago.

The concept originated by Pericles and reenforced by Lincoln is that one cannot frame the moment with words, for the deeds of those who have sacrificed ring louder than any spoken words ever could.

Our obligation is to honor, rather than speak for, those whose deeds and sacrifices spoke for themselves, and doing so is both our duty and our privilege.
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
 

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I am a veteran of the USNR, Vietnam era.
If nothing else, my service has given me a better appreciation of those who fought for our country, and most certainly for those who never came back home.
It's been easy enough to let their sacrifice slip my mind, while bent over a pool table playing one pocket, so I'm glad this holiday is here to remind me.
Thank you, to all who served.
Tramp. :)

P.S. Did I ever tell you about the time I sneaked into the Blue Goose, down in Panama City, Panama? They had the best looking girls in town, and...
 
Thank you to all who made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of freedom.

best,
brian kc <--- saw lots of the other kinds of action during my Army days but, thankfully, never any combat action.
 
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A friend of mine crossed the border with his brother and signed up for 'Nam.
By luck of the draw, they ended up in the same platoon.....
...and one day his brother was no longer there.

Canada wasn't just a refuge for draft-dodgers...
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...=oX08ktrY0rxTkCTh5mXOYQ&bvm=bv.47008514,d.dmg

Oneiron posted this one on NPR....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKqT0-3JV5E&sns=em
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Hello PT109,
Nice post and video. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I had two friends in the army from Canada. They were nice guys. They kept to themselves as much as possible. Their was a guy, who always picked on them all the time. Playing pranks and talking bad about them. One day I took it upon myself to confront him about the picking on them. He told me it was none of my business. After a brief encounter, he no longer was a problem to them. He got the point that we all had one war to fight and it was not with each other.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
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It is estimated that some 500,000 bikers of "Rolling Thunder" fame came to D.C. to honor our fallen for Memorial Day.

Here's a shot of them going over Memorial Bridge, the bridge that is in front of the Arlington National Cemetery.
 

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If I were a member of the Rolling Thunder, consisting of veterans of our armed forces, this would be me. Love this guy's style! It says it all! :)
 

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A railbird salutes as the Rolling Thunder members drive by. :) There is no shortage of patriotism here in the Nation's Capital on Memorial Day.
 

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The President of the United States is expected to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier today, Monday, May 27, 2013. He is just getting back from Oklahoma, comforting the victims of the tragedy that recently occurred there from the tornado.

There are *many* gravestones in Arlington Cemetery with "Unknown" written on them.
 

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My mother and father are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Each Memorial Day, an American flag is set by every single grave in all military cemeteries around the country.

I'm going over today to visit my parents' grave. I didn't go yesterday becuase, from previous experience, it would have been darn near impossible to get into Arlington National Cemetery. I have a pass to get in, so I get "waved" through when I drive up. Others have to go to the Visitors Center.
 

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I was in the USAF during the Vietnam War, first at Taiwan (supply base) and then Thailand (forward base for intelligence gathering), voluntarily extending my tours in both places.

My prayers and thoughts go out to those who are actively serving our country, in spite of the current washington leadership.

Personally, I would like to see all pool halls offer a 50% discount to any active duty service member who shows a DoD military ID card.
 
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I was in the USAF during the Vietnam War, first at Taiwan (supply base) and then Thailand (forward base for intelligence gathering), voluntarily extending my tours in both places.

My prayers and thoughts go out to those who are actively serving our country, in spite of the current washington leadership.

Personally, I would like to see all pool halls offer a 50% discount to any active duty service member who shows a DoD military ID card.
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Thank you for your service.

It would be nice of the pool rooms gave our military a discount. I agree.

President is on TV at the time of this writing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier praising our military!
 
Abe Lincon said it best and perhaps that is why we often cite the civil war -- but it applies to everyone.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863

Semper Fi
 
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