Memorial Day

Races, barbecue and sales tend to dominate this weekend's headlines, but please take a moment to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us.

Thank you.

Agreed.

Amen to that.

Sacrifice indeed. It is hard to fathom. In Memoriam.

Took the old R-90 up to the Saratoga National Cemetery today. Big flags were out, sunny, 75, beautiful day.

I don't know why, I've got emotional depth of a cracker, but the Tomb of the Unknown really upsets me. I get all weepy knowing that some farm wife in Iowa whose son never came home can sleep at night thinking he may be resting in the Tomb.

Damn ......

http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/geraldbhsolomonsaratoga.asp

Amen

Thank You indeed.

Thank you to everyone past and present who has put on a uniform and served.

My dad used to get mad when people would thank him on memorial day and explain to them memorial day isnt about all who served but specifically about those who served and gave their life in the act of their service. Veterans day is for all who served.

He wasn't really a pleasant persin to be around on memorial day and said it was because he.would spend the day thinking about those close to him that didnt come home from Vietnam. I understood it and respected his wishes as far as that goes.

Always.

Thanks from me as well.

I am a Plankowner on SSN-679, the Silversides.

If you were the original crew of a ship you were given "Plankowner" status; one day when they mothballed the thing, you can peel a board off the old girl and make a mantle or something out of it. You can tell the Grandkiddies "That's from the old USS Neversail"

Tough to do with HY-80 ......

I'm also a ShellBack, crossed the Equator. Pictures not SFW.

I never made it across the equator … leaves me still a pollywog .. but I am a blue nose .. (crossed the Arctic Circle)

Bluenose here too. Not sure what that has to do with Memorial Day though.

Spent it in Gettysburg, which is appropriate I suppose.

Memorial day is not Veterans day, that's true, though often confused. It's not about the awesome firepower of a battleship, it's about the awesome destruction of a battleship, and the people who died in it.

Yesterday we visited the National Cemetery in St. Augustine, Florida. It's small--maybe an acre and a half--but contains a lot of history. Glad we made the trip.

T.J. wrote: Bluenose here too. Not sure what that has to do with Memorial Day though.

doesn't … just in reference to the shellback post …..

besides Memorial Day (Decoration Day) is for the remembrance of those that lost their lives while serving … many folk tend to make it another Veteran's Day

I don't know why, I've got emotional depth of a cracker, but the Tomb of the Unknown really upsets me. I get all weepy knowing that some farm wife in Iowa whose son never came home can sleep at night thinking he may be resting in the Tomb.

I understand the sense of melancholy in may bring about thinking about it like that.

however, i think it is both a powerful and touching display and concept.

We as a nation built this monument to honor the sacrifice of those who laid down their lives while unnamed but not unacknowledged. So deeply do we care that these unnamed fallen not be forgotten, so great is the reverence for this soul we know not their name, that we refuse to allow their sacrifice to be lost in antiquity.

We maintain this guard post so that the lost names that lie there will NEVER be 'alone.'

yeah … the 2 memorials in DC that have affected me the most are the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the VN wall