Today is May 27, 2013 and it's once again Memorial Day in the United States. With all of the men and women serving over seas and in many many countries around the world I would just like to say, thank you. Some of you I have had the pleasure of knowing through indirect contact on here or through friends and family at home. You are not forgotten. To my brothers in the Marine Corps, Semper Fi. Keep your head up and move forward until the job is done. This is what we were trained to do and I know you, as well as every other member of our armed forces will do your best to do what your orders direct you to. Memorial Day in the U.S. is not a day for barbecues or for you to enjoy a day off from school, it's a day for you to look around you and be thankful for the freedoms and liberties afforded to you because those who took the oath to defend you are still doing so and willingly put their lives on the line for you to be able to go to school or stand in line to protest against them. Yes, your right to protest what they do is protected because they are defending that right. So before you pick up a sign in protest, before you go to a barbecue, or before you take your family out to the lake to enjoy some quality time together, take the time to remember those who can't and those who never will be able to. Take the time to put a knee to the ground and pray that they get the chance to make it home so someone else can fight in their place just so they can see their family again. Today is Memorial Day, remember them, honor them, and never forget. Some people don't get that luxury...
Well said ghost Thank you to any PIMD'ers out there that are serving or having any friends or family that are serving, I appreciate it everyday
Keep safe those who are serving now and thank you to those that served in the past. Love from Blighty.
Memorial Day is not to honor the living veteran. That's what November 11 is for. Memorial Day is the day that's set aside to remember with gratitude and pride all those who served and died for our country and our freedom. May your day be filled with memories and peace God bless America.
Memorial Day is to honor All those that serve past and present. Armed forces day is a day to remember what happened on Sept. 11 and Veterans Day is a day to remember the living veterans as well as those who have passed on. No specific day is given to just one group of people that still live or that have passed on. Regardless of any one persons translation or perception of the day we should always be aware and give thanks on all of these days because without them we would have no civil liberties.
Personally I see no harm with remembering the people who fought/are fighting for your freedoms on more than one set day of the year
Neither do I. I have many friends still serving. Some I have lost track of throughout the years but I always remember them and those who I went through boot camp with.
Very well said! being an army brat and former military wife, I have grown up around amazing soldiers. My gratitude can not be expressed enough on how much I appreicate each of the soliders. They do a job I wouldnt even consider. THANK YOU!!!! Please everyone take time to remember our soliders overseas, the ones at home, and the ones that never made it back.
I have done 2 deployments in Afghanistan and so to be 3! I say thanks to the ones that show appreciation to those who have served and a major thanks to those injured and are no longer here!
i think id have to thank my great-grandpa James and grandpa Tom for serving during WW2, my cousin Ian and Cousin Brent for serving multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and my cousin Shawn for enlisting in the marine corpe recently. thank you for the service you provide for the United States
Poof I ss'd and forwarded to my Da. I've made several trips to the wall with him on Memorial Weekend. That was his war. Also a Marine SAR. Shot down