OT: Thinking of Troops Past and Present on this Memorial Day Weekend
Nam vet here, spent yesterday with others from my VFW post at several cemeteries in the area placing flags on veterans headstones.
Memorial Day has really suffered from "holiday drift." It's specifically set aside for remembrance of those who served and died. If anything, it's supposed to be sober, reflective, and thoughtful. How it got entirely conflated with beer, swimming pools, mattress sales, and BBQ just sails right past me.
This isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I'm binging Ken Burns' The Civil War this weekend. Talk about sobering. The single day totals of war dead by today's perspective are just unfathomable.
Burns' work is a great way to spend this day. The Sullivan Ballou letter and Sam Watterson's reading of The Gettysburg Address are the parts that always get to me.
dickweeds who down voted any comment in this thread.
Don't give him an outlet. Let him drown in his own poison.
Jesus H Christ this country has to always be so effing black and white. So sickeningly politically correct. If we don’t directly say we’re for you and your beliefs, you’re just going to assume we’re flag-burning terrorists.
And for all who've fought for our freedom and our way of life. God bless and keep you.
for your service and for coming here to share your thoughts.
Brendan Eskey was a tank gunner in my platoon who lost his life in an ammunition fire at Grafenwoehr, Germany. The next year during Operation Desert Storm 1st Armor Division memoralized Sergeant Eskey by naming a range for him. This year, as every for the last 29 years, he'll be in our memories during our Memorial Day remembrances.
But never mistake the cabal of lying, civilian, pond scum, regardles of political affiliation that sends them into harm's way year after year after year after year after ... for the patriots that they fashion themselves to be.
Wanna do something good for the people serving so honorably in our military? Eschew virtue signalling and get to work getting their asses home from the shit holes our pissant excuse for a government keeps sending them into.
I like to sit back and remember all the other Sailors I served with. There were great times and bad times but they are always in my memories. Go Navy.