Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Remembering the Brave - Memorial Day

If you have never experienced the Pomp & Circumstance of a military event
this should impress you. Regardless of branch of service, if you have been
there, it will both bring back memories and make you proud of these young
warriors and their sacrifices for our great nation. Obviously this is a
solemn event in which families of fallen warriors are honored. This slide
show may take more than one watching to ensure full attention to both the
pictures and the song. Not just on Memorial Day, but every day, remember
all those warriors that have made the supreme sacrifice and thank all those
veterans and current warriors committed to protecting each and every one of
us.

Something to share on this up coming Memorial day.

This was an informal dinner not the Marine Corps Ball. Just something the
"Marines" do

This slide show consists of photos taken at a formal dinner at the National
Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, VA.

It is a beautiful presentation of the honor, commitment and pride today's
heroes share with yesterday's. Some of the things many in this country have
forgotten.

http://www.jensensutta.com/slideshows/RTB/

Lynn,

Thanks for posting that video. It's content should be viewed by all.

JB

very nicely done!

Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

If you've never been to Arlington:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw1hvNqaYxU&feature=related

Marine Silent Drill Team 10 minute demo with 10 lb rifles with fixed bayonet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyDIuSxRF1c

Both best watched in full screen mode

I am a Veteran of Gulf War Part I (Desert Storm)... I really appreciated the welcome I received when I returned, and still to this day. I would just like to salute the vets before me as well as those who served after me. Thank you for your service, and God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America, for allowing me to explore this great nation.

by the way, an absolute "must watch" movie I saw today on HBO:

Taking Chance.

http://www.hbo.com/movies/taking-chance/...al-article.html

Out here in flyover country, the Boy Scouts provide a day of service on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, placing flags on over 180,000 graves in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on the banks of the Mississippi River just south of St. Louis.

My grandfather fought in WWI under General Pershing. He was awarded the Purple Heart and carried bits of shrapnel in him from those battles. My dad was in the Navy in WWII, on an LST in the Mediterranean. My father-in-law never wore a uniform but was integral to the war effort. A chemical engineer for Monsanto, he was told "pack a bag, get on this train and get off when it stops." He was assigned to Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of the Manhattan Project. Back when the reactor at Chernobyl blew up, he observed that the graphite-moderated reactor design that failed in Chernobyl was virtually identical to the research reactor he worked on in Oak Ridge.

May we keep all of our veterans, whether family, friends or those we've never met, in hour hearts and minds today.