Just in case you forgot why you have a three-day weekend…

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2058166924840771867

[mystery-ak]

[Bigun]

Every person who ever wore a uniform in service of this country once wrote a check to their uncle Sam for everything including their lives. This weekend is about those who had that check cashed for the full amount.

 

[libertybele]

 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KguRxcHpOL8

[Cyber Liberty]

Gunther is one of the good ones....

[Idiot]

Yup.....I have one. 

[Hoodat]

Thank you for posting.




There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

John 15:13

[the OlLine Rebel]

If they’d stick to the real Memorial Day, May 30, we wouldn’t have so much obsession on barbecues and beaches and sales.

In fact, the very reason we have a 3-day weekend:  so it’s convenient for the businesses and the workers.

[libertybele]

If they’d stick to the real Memorial Day, May 30, we wouldn’t have so much obsession on barbecues and beaches and sales.

In fact, the very reason we have a 3-day weekend:  so it’s convenient for the businesses and the workers.

I agree.  Somehow the meaning of Memorial day has been lost and for many it is equated to extra days off of work and sales opportunities.

[mystery-ak]

I was brought up that Memorial Day was a solemn day. My mother would load all five of us in the station wagon and visit our father's grave at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in MO...Scott USAF Base would do a fly-over dropping flowers all over the cemetery...my brothers and sisters would gather up as many as we could and place them on his grave.

[Cyber Liberty]

I was brought up that Memorial Day was a solemn day. My mother would load all five of us in the station wagon and visit our father's grave at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in MO...Scott USAF Base would do a fly-over dropping flowers all over the cemetery...my brothers and sisters would gather up as many as we could and place them on his grave.

 

[libertybele]

I was brought up that Memorial Day was a solemn day. My mother would load all five of us in the station wagon and visit our father's grave at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in MO...Scott USAF Base would do a fly-over dropping flowers all over the cemetery...my brothers and sisters would gather up as many as we could and place them on his grave.

You brought tears to me eyes @mystery-ak   I'm sure this is a difficult time for you.  Thank for posting a picture of your father; he was indeed a good looking man.   Doing a fly-over the cemetery and dropping flowers is a beautiful story and  I'm sure that meant the world to you. 

Hugs.