Memorial Day

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MajorD

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My flag went up at sunrise, a fire will be built later, prayers will be sent, and people will be remembered.
 
I always start Memorial Day with a prayer thanking God for these people and what they have done for me and our great country. I end the day with a similar prayer. Thank the Lord for these people who have kept us free!

-Will
 
I packed up my 8th grade classroom for the final time this week after 22 years of teaching. On this Memorial Day, I thought it fitting to lay out the flags that have hung on my classroom walls all these years.

Obviously, the weapons didn't hang with them!

Culpeper Minutemen
Betsy Ross
Fort Sumter
First National Confederate
50 Star United States

Fiddleback 3 Finger Karda, W.A. Surls Bog Oak Inlander, and a beauty from Carl that I got at TrackRock.

And associated items and reproductions from the Revolution, Civil War, WW1, WW2, and Vietnam era. Forgive the inauthenticities please. Not all these weapons are period accurate.

Thank you to all who served.

 
A special thank you to all our veterans on Memorial Day. I always teach my kids about my grandad and his brothers who fought in WWII, and their own grandad, my wifeś father, who served in Vietnam.
 
Thanks to all that have given the ultimate sacrifice so that we might be free.

From a visit to Arlington a few years ago:



Today I took the family to the little cemetery in our town to pay respect:



Home of the free because of the brave.
 
USMCPOP said:
One of my son's teachers is retiring. In 2001/2002, my son and another painted this mural in his classroom. My son was killed in Iraq about 3 years later.

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Sir,
The mural is beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. And my words cannot begin to express my gratitude, and sadness, to you and yours, and the measure of debt many of us feel. I am deeply sorry, and at the same time so honored that you shared this.

My son has devoted the past 4 years to the JROTC Marine Corp program in his high school, graduating as a Captain, and is now considering either the U.S. Marines or U.S. Navy.

Thank you, sir. Every year I teach my students what this day means. Including, one last time, this year.

Sincerely,
Tony
 
Tony,

Our H.S. didn't have Navy JROTC until the last few years. I'm not 100% happy that they and the athletic program took over the two classrooms for drafting and wood shop where we used to build competition robots, but that's the way of things these days. But I do appreciate that the kids have an opportunity to get their feet wet.

Our school somehow had a much greater percentage of kids joining the Marines, despite it being in a relatively affluent area. Go figure.

Tell your son that I'm proud of him and that he should give it his best shot, whichever branch he joins. If he prefers going barefoot and hungry, I'd recommend the Marines (little inside joke). Men's Department of the Navy, LOL.
 
Memorial Day is a day we as the country come together to honor and remember our servicemen and women who answered America's call to service and paid the ultimate price. Memorial Day is the time for Americans as one body to stand up and say, "Thank you. We remember you." There is no “Happy” in “Memorial Day.” It's a day of remembrance. It is a day where we should pause, pray, take care of the headstones and keep them clean as described at headstonepics.com, and give gratitude to the 1.3 million brave men and women who have died to protect the very freedoms that we are privileged to enjoy on this beautiful day.
 
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