Memorial Day

[theodoric]

by the time most see this it will already be Memorial Day



As has been said before ... "all gave some, some gave all"

lest we never ever forget ... for those soldiers of all branches, who have given their All ... Rest In Peace Brothers and Sisters, for you have more than earned it .................

[Gift_in_Edge]

Happy Memorial Day everyone! Lets remember all those who have served our country. <3

[OkamiKodomo]

Happy Memorial Day! My brothers are 4th generation military, both US Airmen, just out of BMT and in their tech schools. My mother was National Guard, my father was Navy, grandfathers on both sides were military veterans, (RIP to my paternal grandfather) and my maternal grandfather's father was also Army.

[Dark Angel]

This memorial day marks 6 months since my grandma died.

[Janeway]

awww dark angel l'm so sorry to hear that. I lost my mother 18 years ago so l understand what it's like.

[theodoric]

Happy Memorial Day! My brothers are 4th generation military, both US Airmen, just out of BMT and in their tech schools. My mother was National Guard, my father was Navy, grandfathers on both sides were military veterans, (RIP to my paternal grandfather) and my maternal grandfather's father was also Army.

you have a family that can be very proud if it's long standing military service

my own is similar ... going back to a great-great something grandfather who served in the Imperial German Navy in the late 1800's ... an uncle and grandfather who were involved in WW2 ... my father was in the Korean War ... and I was in during Viet Nam (I did not go to Nam), and my oldest nephew and I were over there for Desert Shield/Storm

I am just as proud of my family's history of military service

[embyquinn]

My father served in World War II. He was there on the beach at Normandy. He saved his CO from a bombing run...then turned down a Purple Heart for his injury. (He got a piece of shrapnel...in his left butt cheek.) He captured four German soldiers singlehanded (but to hear him tell it, he picked up four frightened teenagers who were cold and starving and took them in to give them food and shelter) and received a Silver Star (which he tried to turn down but wasn't allowed to). He was the European Theater's version of Radar O'Reilly, a radar corporal who kept the jeeps running and the supplies moving. Everyone called him "Slim Jim" because he was 6 feet tall and weighed about 140 pounds. (He was named after a radio antenna, not the snack or the carjacking tool.)

He was a hell of a guy and I'm proud to be his daughter.

[theodoric]

My father served in World War II. He was there on the beach at Normandy. He saved his CO from a bombing run...then turned down a Purple Heart for his injury. (He got a piece of shrapnel...in his left butt cheek.) He captured four German soldiers singlehanded (but to hear him tell it, he picked up four frightened teenagers who were cold and starving and took them in to give them food and shelter) and received a Silver Star (which he tried to turn down but wasn't allowed to). He was the European Theater's version of Radar O'Reilly, a radar corporal who kept the jeeps running and the supplies moving. Everyone called him "Slim Jim" because he was 6 feet tall and weighed about 140 pounds. (He was named after a radio antenna, not the snack or the carjacking tool.)

He was a hell of a guy and I'm proud to be his daughter.

he IS a hell of a guy ... and you have every reason in the world to be proud of him

and from my own many years of studying history ... I can believe him the way he describes the German soldiers he captured ... by the time of the Invasion of Normandy ... a great many of the German soldiers WERE nothing more than teenagers ... who were answering their country's call to duty
... most Americans dont fully realize just how young soldiers can be ............ when I graduated from Parris Island, I was 17, I wasnt old enough to be sent into a combat zone yet