Remember.And thank you.
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| Memorial Day |
| 2008-05-26 |
| Remember. And thank you. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #19 They'll form interesting ideas when they go home, after having their conceptual universe expanded in your capable hands, mom. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-26 23:09 |
| #18 James and I brought three graduate students from China to today's Memorial Day parade. Afterward, we had a cookout. Talked about all sorts of things. These young men aren't quite used to being able to speak their minds about issues. |
| Posted by: mom 2008-05-26 22:43 |
| #17 James and I brought three graduate students from China to today's Memorial Day parade. Afterward, we had a cookout. Talked about all sorts of things. These young men aren't quite used to being able to speak their minds about issues. |
| Posted by: mom 2008-05-26 22:43 |
| #16 Soldiers past and present--thank you for our freedoms. Let God bless and keep you. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-05-26 19:45 |
| #15 We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies. Moina Michael In the early to mid-40's my dad was Commander of the local chapters of the VFW and American Legion. During one period, both at once, IIRC. So, at this time of year, I sold Buddy Poppies as well as the Legion Auxiliary Poppies. I thought I was pretty good at it until I found out years later that my dad was a local WWI hero. So people were buying the poppies from "Bud's boy" as way of honoring him. That was even better. |
| Posted by: GK 2008-05-26 16:46 |
| #14 Even tho some folks don't deserve the freedoms they have. I was at Gettysburg yesterday - new Visitor's Center, quite crowded. Walking out of the introductory movie, the 40-something lady behind me remarked, "We've just passed 4,000 killed in Iraq, but this was worse." Funny, and yet unspeakably ignorant. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-05-26 12:57 |
| #13 So the Googleniks are self-righteous idiots, only capable of celebrating trivialities -- they're exactly the type of people stereotyped to have no social awareness or social skills whatsoever, and thusly they demonstrate the truth of the stereotype. At bottom they likely are incapable of understanding how deeply they offend more than half their customer base, and what risk they run financially when (not if) someone else comes up with a significant improvement on their product. But more importantly, those who gave themselves and their futures that our freedoms continue have my everlasting gratitude. I have tried to rear my children to cherish those freedoms as part payment on the debt I owe those brave men and women. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-26 12:39 |
| #12 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 |
| Posted by: doc 2008-05-26 12:34 |
| #11 A pity Google doesn't share these sentiments. Yahoo does. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-05-26 12:29 |
| #10 Re Google's latest refusal to post a celebratory logo on Memorial Day: they have been doing that for years, even as they post notices on Valentine's Day and Halloween. Many of the founders of Google are of Russian descent; maybe they would prefer to champion the Red Army. What did Lenin say about the last capitalist, who tries to sell the rope with which he is hanged? |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-26 11:10 |
| #9 Humm.... |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-05-26 10:31 |
| #8 A pity Google doesn't share these sentiments. |
| Posted by: doc 2008-05-26 10:24 |
| #7 A pity Google doesn't share these sentiments. |
| Posted by: doc 2008-05-26 10:24 |
| #6 Thank you to those who sacrificed to protect us, and to sustain our freedom. Though many who our military fought and died for over the centuries didn't (and don't) deserve it, they did it anyway. Our words will never be enough - but thank you all. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-26 09:58 |
| #5 Best 'Memorial' address, done a good time ago, given on a Thursday afternoon in November, outside a small Pennsylvania town - "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - A. Lincoln. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-26 08:06 |
| #4 thank you to all our Vets, living and past |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-05-26 07:58 |
| #3 I had the privilege of watching and advance copy of the entire 4 hour remake of the Andromeda Strain. It is strange that it is starting on Memorial Day, because military brass are the bag guys, in a sub plot. Otherwise the military scenes are well done. On the whole, the series is excellent, with lots of red herrings and clever scientific deduction. It is different from the original in that the methodology of biohazard containment has advanced in 38 years. The same producers came out with "Aliens." |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-26 01:02 |
| #2 There are not words fit for the gratitude I have, and try to honor you all with good deeds. My new daughter thanks you with every smile. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-05-26 00:44 |
#1  These brave men and women died, so their children and our children will have freedom. |
| Posted by: www 2008-05-26 00:31 |