Memorial Day

[Ocala Mike]

Hoping everyone on PA enjoys a safe and respectful holiday tomorrow. Remember, it is a day for tribute to those who gave all in service to this country.

Apropos of that, I recommend the film, "Taking Chance" with Kevin Bacon which is playing on HBO tomorrow at 6:30 pm EDT. A really moving film which seems to come around this season every year.

[NJ Stinks]

Mike and everybody here, Happy Memorial Day.

There is an article at the Washington Post website tonight that is all about remembering our brave soldiers who lost their lives in battle. Here's the start of that article and the link if you wish to read more:
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Americans gave their lives to defeat the Nazis. The Dutch have never forgotten.

By Ian Shapira May 24 at 7:39 PM

MARGRATEN, Netherlands — They haven’t forgotten. For 70 years, the Dutch have come to a verdant U.S. cemetery outside this small village to care for the graves of Americans killed in World War II.

On Sunday, they came again, bearing Memorial Day bouquets for men and women they never knew, but whose 8,300 headstones the people of the Netherlands have adopted as their own.

For the American relatives of the fallen, it was an outpouring of gratitude almost as stunning as the rows of white marble crosses and Jewish Stars of David at the Netherlands American Cemetery. Each grave has been adopted by a Dutch or, in some cases, Belgian or German family, as well as local schools, companies and military organizations. More than 100 people are on a waiting list to become caretakers.

At the cemetery’s annual commemoration, 6,000 people poured onto the 65-acre burial grounds just a few miles from the German border, including scores of descendants of American war dead who had traveled here from all over the United States. They were eager to pay tribute to parents or grandparents who had died to defeat the Nazis. But they also wanted to thank the Dutch families who had been tending the graves of their loved ones, often passing the responsibility from one generation to the next.

For Arthur Chotin, 70, who had come from Annapolis, Md., to finally meet the couple caring for his father’s resting place, the devotion of the Dutch was a source of awe.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/americans-gave-their-lives-to-defeat-the-nazis-the-dutch-have-never-forgotten/2015/05/24/92dddab4-fa79-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html?hpid=z1

[lamboguy]

its Memorial Day and i went out for a walk around my street @2:00 a.m. i counted the number of houses on my street, there are 84 of them. out of the 84 mine is the only that has a red white and blue flag on the fagpole, accross the street from me is a Chilean consulate with a flagpole that fly's their country's flag. no other flags though. my house is a historical home, the original owner back in 1886 was a United States Senator. during world war 11 the archbishop of Boston lived in my house. i am only the 4th owner of this big old house and i am very proud to fly my flag all year on the flagpole that came with the house.


happy memorial day to all and thanks to all the men that wore the uniform to make it possible to be here today.

[LottaKash]

AMERICA, "Land of the Free", "Because of the Brave"....

[maddog42]

https://www.facebook.com/BettiePage/photos/a.416408740624.199216.151181515624/10153417383625625/?type=1&theater

[Inner Dirt]

Thanks to all veterans, sure wish this country treated them better. I will just leave it at that.

[Rookies]

I have seen 'Private Ryan' 100x and again, just concluded. It symbolizes everything about war and what so few, did for so many, so long ago. :ThmbUp:

The final poignant scene must have been replayed in the minds of the many, over these past 7 decades, to commemorate the multitude who fell beside them.

[Clocker]

This photo, not photoshopped, was taken a while back at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minnesota.

http://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/admin/ed-assets/2015/05/1tevlin0810.jpg


Story here:

http://www.startribune.com/memorial-day-look-back-eagle-photo-touches-hearts/127347018/

[Grits]

Sometimes, God allows us to see, clearly, the things he sees. As he did here for the amateur photographer, Frank Glick.

He knows, more than we do, the debt these men and women have paid...for all of us. The debt, too, of those who returned, and those still serving.

PA, you need to find/add a <3 emoji for me. For this.

Thank you, Clocker, for sharing this beautiful story.

[lamboguy]

nice one Grits

[cj's dad]

This is one of them.