Happy memorial day to all

boston1450

Happy memorial day to all. A salute to those that have fought for our country. WE SALUTE YOU..thanks for your services

zane77

A huge thanks to all the men and women in all the services to our country

Dawgfish

Thanks to all who have served our country!

decal

A heart felt thank you to those that paid the ultimate price.

tonyb

A big salute...and a heart felt thank you for all you do....for us. Damn proud of you men and women.

heartystatue

Happy Memirial Day! I'm very proud of all the men and women who keep us safe in all that you do.

hochpt21

Thank you, thank you to all who have served.

cnh

Thanks to all who have served! And here's hoping the old guys (politicians) who haven't, remember their/our obligations to those who have "returned"!

cnh

Polkie2009

Texas sends our sincere thanks to all _ who serve and have served our country and to their families. Thank you for your service and sacrifices that keep us a free country and establishes freedom and liberty for all. We owe them so much, Lest We Forget.

MikeC78

The paradox of saying 'Happy Memorial Day':

Not to be confused with saying 'Happy Veteran's Day', Happy Birthday', 'Happy Thanksgiving', 'Happy Anniversary', etc., one should not actually use the word 'Happy' for Memorial Day. However, because we all see and hear the term 'Happy' every year during Memorial Day, it has become habit--a form of unconscious wiring--to attach it. So, from now on, let us try to mourn with a smile on our face, but not using the term 'Happy' with Memorial Day; that's what our fallen comrades would want us to do.

Take care...

Mike

obieone

just a reminder...

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starkiller

Both my dad and my brother served in the Armed Forces. My bro in fact got to take a ride in a F-16, lost his cookies but he said he still had fun He lives in Colorado Springs and will be going up to the cemetary at Ft.Logan to pay his respects to our dad who is buried there:sad:

A big salute to him, my dad, and everyone else who has served and as mentioned, let's not forget them once they come home!!

jon1redleg

Played TAPS this morning in honor of
My friend SGT Randy Rhen.
Made the sacrifice in Iraq, his vehicle
Hit an lED.

Thanks to all who served and who still
Fight for our freedoms, GOD BLESS!

rpf65

MikeC78 wrote: »

The paradox of saying 'Happy Memorial Day':

Not to be confused with saying 'Happy Veteran's Day', Happy Birthday', 'Happy Thanksgiving', 'Happy Anniversary', etc., one should not actually use the word 'Happy' for Memorial Day. However, because we all see and hear the term 'Happy' every year during Memorial Day, it has become habit--a form of unconscious wiring--to attach it. So, from now on, let us try to mourn with a smile on our face, but not using the term 'Happy' with Memorial Day; that's what our fallen comrades would want us to do.

Take care...

Mike

I respectfully disagree with you. Those that have worn a uniform generally agree that the worst possible thing is any type of combat. Trust me, we do not wish to harm anybody, nor do we wish to be harmed. We also know that there is the very real possibility that we, or somebody we know may not return. I'm fairly sure that even during peace time, a carrier battle group has never returned from a deployment without at least one casuality.

That being said, the term is not for the fallen, it is for the lives saved, and an ideal that those lives were sacrificed for. There is no paradox here. Those that are in harms way, those that support them, and those who respect them all have one thing in common. We are all happy that they chose to wear the uniform, and for the most part they are happy to have done so.

I have known people who haven't made it back, but fortunatly I did. I salute and honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, as well as all others who have made the choice, and have never been in harms way. The difference between the 2 is simply luck, and not much more.

I only offer this as a different perspective, and mean no offense.

Tornado Red

Happy Memorial Day to all south of the border. I'd like to attach a copy of a story entitled "The Americans" penned by Gordon Sinclair, a journalist here, in 1973. Many of you may have read this before, but for those who haven't....

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.

I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.

Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon?

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.

I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.

This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped