MEMORIAL DAY

Fellow Forumites,
Memorial Day is upon us, let us take a few minutes to pause in the reflection of those brave men and boys from all sides who went to war in the 20th Century, and didn't make it home. Lest we forget!
Regards,
Jim 'ACE' - NNWA 'KEEPER OF THE DRAGON'

Its good to see that such a day is celebrated. It always causes me to reflect on my uncle, who was lost in a B-17 over New Guinea. His plane and the remains of the crew were finally located in 1970, and the men were brought home to Jefferson Barracks for a memorial and group burial. Its good to see the country honor men who gave their all.

I, too, take this day to reflect on my grandfather's uncle, Private William McIntyre, 13th Bn King's Liverpool Regiment, who died on 21 May 1943.

He was one Chindit that did not come home.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will rememer them.

LEST WE FORGET.

[Shooter]

As always, on this day, I will reflect on those who I knew and were lost in combat. There are so many, but most of all, I remember those I knew from 8th Marines who were all killed on that day in October, 1983, when the airport administration building at the Beirut airport was blown up, containing the BLT Hq of MAU-24. I had nine friends in that building. None survived.

With them, and the many who perished in SE Asia, I have a lot of friends on the other side. When my time comes to join them, I do not want to be remembered as one who forgot about them.

Like those lonely men with their grey hair, in their American Legion caps, who go around planting little American flags in the soil of that holy ground that is our National Cemetaries, I am compelled to remember my comrades.

As Jim said, "...lest we forget."

Semper Fidelis,

Shooter sends

Here - here! and may our great nations always remain friends!

From the untended and forgotten patch of weeds in a foreign field, where a MIA lies slumbering for all eternity to the grandeur of the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington and those who lie enshrined therein, all are equal; all have written a footnote to history in their own blood.
May those who conme after us never forget that the freedom they take for granted was bought and paid for with the ultimate sacrafice of many ordinary people who became extraordinary in their moment of truth.

This is to honor my Great Uncle, Pvt. Robert W. Callow, 20 Bn Engineers, U.S. Army. Gassed at the St. Mihiel in 1918, died 1924 as a result. My apologies to him for not saying anything about him in the opening thread.

He is not forgotten!
Regards,
Jim 'ACE' - NNWA 'KEEPER OF THE DRAGON'

[mike_baram]

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stewart Mill

Ten-HUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Present........ARMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VBR to all,
Mike

[leo]

Perhaps we can take a few minutes to remember those who did their best and gave their all for us. I honor their memory and their deeds.