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I hope everyone is doing great. Hope everyone is having a safe and fun Memorial Day weekend. Take the time to stop and think why we have this holiday. Thanks to all the the service men and women. That goes for the ones that are with us and the ones we have lost.
 
Lil G said:
I hope everyone is doing great. Hope everyone is having a safe and fun Memorial Day weekend. Take the time to stop and think why we have this holiday. Thanks to all the the service men and women. That goes for the ones that are with us and the ones we have lost.
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Great post!

It isn't a long weekend here in Canada. But I am so happy that you are remembering those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, so we have a good life.
Many died in service, for the rest of us!
God Bless all of you brave women and men!!!
 
Lil G said:
I hope everyone is doing great. Hope everyone is having a safe and fun Memorial Day weekend. Take the time to stop and think why we have this holiday. Thanks to all the the service men and women. That goes for the ones that are with us and the ones we have lost.
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hope you are doing great too, Lil G. miss having you on here more often, dang it.

yes for sure thinking about loved ones lost. i miss them every day. but also thinking about the ones who i don't know...who gave their life for me and my family to live free. i am thankful for them every day. may they all be resting in peace. [emoji272]
 
B.C. said:
Great post!

It isn't a long weekend here in Canada. But I am so happy that you are remembering those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, so we have a good life.
Many died in service, for the rest of us!
God Bless all of you brave women and men!!!
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yes, thankful for all who fight and die for the sake of freedom regardless of nationality. thankful for our Canadian brethren who also sacrificed all. [emoji272]
 
tooter said:
yes, thankful for all who fight and die for the sake of freedom regardless of nationality. thankful for our Canadian brethren who also sacrificed all. [emoji272]
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Thanks T!

I came home broken, mentally and physically, but at least I came home alive.
Some of my friends paid the ultimate price!
Not a day goes by without me thinking about them, and missing them!
 
B.C. said:
Thanks T!

I came home broken, mentally and physically, but at least I came home alive.
Some of my friends paid the ultimate price!
Not a day goes by without me thinking about them, and missing them!
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thank you for making it home, BC :) my pops didnt come home from korea unscathed, but at least he made it home. we must protect our freedom at all cost, otherwise all those precious people will have died in vain. i better stop here before i go full patriot and get in trouble. love y'all!
 
Every Memorial Day I come back to this..............

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

Dear Madam,

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln.
 
[emoji22] thank you for sharing this, B-Man. it is truly humbling to think about all the letters of condolence that have been written for our fallen soldiers over the years.
B-Man said:
Every Memorial Day I come back to this..............

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

Dear Madam,

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln.
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Its wierd to say Happy Memorial Day. Many people treat it like Veterans Day, but the two couldn't be more different. I'm not one to throw Memorial Dat parties ot even have a cookout. For me it's a day to sit. Back and remember, reflect, be supportive to those families of our fallen heroes. So! Its Memorial Day folks - let us not forget.[emoji25]
 
Scott Wyman said:
Its wierd to say Happy Memorial Day. Many people treat it like Veterans Day, but the two couldn't be more different. I'm not one to throw Memorial Dat parties ot even have a cookout. For me it's a day to sit. Back and remember, reflect, be supportive to those families of our fallen heroes. So! Its Memorial Day folks - let us not forget.[emoji25]
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Agree with ya, S!
 
In Canada we do not have Memorial day, we celebrate Remembrance day on November 11th. It tends to be a quiet day of reflection! We wear a poppy pinned over our heart, remember the friends we lost. I have memorized the poem, in Flanders field, and repeat that to myself. Then i have a mug I've written the names of everyone who is now gone, that served in Afghanistan with me, and others I knew. I fill it with beer, cook a steak on the bbq, and drink my beer. Problem is i need a bigger mug soon sadly.
 
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