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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on May 26, 2023 15:42:20 GMT -6
Memorial Day is Monday in the United States.
Memorial Day was declared a national holiday through an act of Congress in 1971, and its roots date back to the Civil War era.
Unlike Veterans Day, Memorial Day honors all military members who have died in while serving in U.S. forces.
While it is a long weekend and the beginning of Summer Vacation season, please take a moment to remember what it represents.
John
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Post by dnic on May 26, 2023 18:37:42 GMT -6
Memorial Day is Monday in the United States. Memorial Day was declared a national holiday through an act of Congress in 1971, and its roots date back to the Civil War era. Unlike Veterans Day, Memorial Day honors all military members who have died in while serving in U.S. forces. While it is a long weekend and the beginning of Summer Vacation season, please take a moment to remember what it represents. John Thanks for the reminder John. I do appreciate the service and ultimate sacrifice that many service people have made for my personal freedom. At my store we offer a military discount. When I'm running a cash register and a customer is flagged as military I tell them thank you for your service. I know they appreciate the mention but many of them don't seem comfortable with the props. Like many heroes they are a very humble people. |
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Post by antares on May 27, 2023 2:41:27 GMT -6
Brave folks who often couldn't avoid the dubious pleasure of such sacrifice even if they wanted to due to The Draft. A well deserved salute indeed. Conscription was abandoned over here in the late 1950s so I never had to go through all that square bashing lark, and it makes me all the more thankful for those who went before me.
We had a little taste of such recognition during Covid 19 when the so called key workers were given unreserved accolades, especially the health service workers who lost their lives caring for others. The difference there is that Draftees had no choice but key workers could have quit if they'd wanted to. But they didn't.
Best Beloved did her bit too because she worked in a hospital operating theatre as an ODP (Operating Department Practitioner- mostly in anaesthetics support in her hospital, but it's a broad church theatre discipline elsewhere) until she retired four or five months into the pandemic. Yep- right through the period when P.P.E. was nigh on impossible to source, and her with historical immune deficiency thanks to chemotherapy when she was fifty. We had nationwide front door clapping at six o-clock one evening every week. Many folks were banging pots and pans- anything that they could lay their hands on that would make some noise. You should have heard the din! It took our self-serving leaders barely a year before bringing the whip hand down on the very same folks who had survived Covid 19 by holding that wage increases to address inflation north of 15% could not be afforded. Like they couldn't afford all the vaccines and the staggering cost of furlough? No, they go for the easy target low-hanging fruit every time. The bare-faced cheek of our leaders beggars belief. How rapidly they can sweep all that weekly clapping under the carpet.
We don't have a Memorial Day over here, we do have Armistice Day to recognise the fallen on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month each year, but it doesn't recognise the ongoing sacrifices made by others in the form of defence service alone. We (read "I") have so much to be grateful for the sacrifices of all such folks- both military/defence and key workers/health care professionals. Those in authority should take a long cool hard look in the mirror because some of us have long memories. There- I managed that without recourse to politics.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2023 6:36:58 GMT -6
I never did go into the military. But my Dad, two brothers and our son did. Our son was almost killed in Baghdad. He has 22 pieces of metal and cement still in his body. His best friend died in his arms. I cannot fathom what others have gone through in the military in a war situation.
So yes, we all need to take a moment and say a prayer and give thanks for their service. Without them standing up for us all. The world as we know it would be a different place.
So thank you to the military, police, medical, and fire personal, and anyone else involved in protecting and serving to help people not only here in the USA but all over the world.
God bless them every one!
My wife, I look for people in restaurants that we can pay for their food. Most of the time they are military people. So if one can, please show your support and or do something good for someone by paying for their dinner.
Be safe this weekend and be at peace! EB
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