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Memorial Day
Lest We Forget
(Crosses at Normandy)
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05-31-2010, 06:46 AM
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Yes. Let us remember and not forget.
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One of the saddest, yet most peaceful places I have ever seen was the US War Cemetery at Cambridge UK. I have been to Arlington, but this place was more touching, perhaps because these boys were so far from home.
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Thank you to the parents that gave their sons and daughters.
Thanks to the spouses and lovers that gave that person but received the telegram.
Thank you to the children gave a parent they did not know but only knew of.
Thank you to the men and women that gave ALL.
We will not forget.
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Thank you to all who are serving or have served (living or passed) in all branches of the US Military. This hits home even more so now, to me, because my baby sister's husband is currently active Army & is stationed in South Korea (my sister and their 2 children are living on the base out there as well).
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Thank you Lil.
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wow! those had me all teary! my baby girl was sitting next to me and when she noticed my tears, she put her arm around my neck & patted my shoulder and said "my momma" and hugged me.
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Lil, thank you very much for sharing those video clips. Those were wonderful! God bless our men and women who serve!
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Dicksbro:I hate to sound like a wimp,but as a 10% Disabled VN Vet,I refuse to go to the VN Wall!I don't think that I could emotionally handle it!I just lost too many good friends there!The few left that I know,might as well be vegatables!It was a long time ago but the memories linger on. Irish ![line](images/smilies/ola.gif)
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OF ~Can you tell me what it says in full along the top of the wall??
"....CENTURY HAVE BEEN FORCED TO........."
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THE AMERICANS WHOSE NAMES HERE APPEAR WERE PART OF THE PRICE THAT FREE MEN FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THIS CENTURY HAVE BEEN FORCED TO PAY TO DEFEND HUMAN LIBERTY AND RIGHTS ALL WHO SHALL HEREAFTER LIVE IN FREEDOM
WILL BE HERE REMINDED THAT TO THESE MEN AND THEIR COMRADES WE OWE A DEBT TO BE PAID WITH GRATEFUL REMEMBERANCE OF THEIR SACRIFICE AND THE HIGH RESOLVE THAT THE CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY DIED SHALL LIVE ETERNALLY
according to the Madingley website. My pics have fragments of this.
Glen Miller's MIA is on the wall.
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Quote:
... FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THIS CENTURY...
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I believe we are referring to two separate monuments. The Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial commemorates the fourth calling of our people to arms by our government in the twentieth century.
I understand what Irish says about the power of The Wall. Perhaps monuments differ from memorials only by the people that visit them in the same way history differs from events. History is something we learn about. Events are something we lived.
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The Wall I'm referring to is the wall of the missing at the American War Cemetery at Madingley, just outside of Cambridge in the UK.
The Vietnam Wall in Washington was more disturbing, the wall at Madingley just sadly serene.
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