Posted on 05/27/2024 11:49:33 AM PDT by Az Joe
Quit conflating Veteran's Day with Memorial Day by posting stories of the feats of Veterans who did not die while serving. You are disrespecting those who gave all in the service of their nation! Jerks
A lot of Vietnam veterans die everyday from the effects of Agent Orange. Memorial Day is also for them.
Who? Those who served and died? All I’ve heard the C-in-C blabber about is how we should remember George Floyd.
Looking at your posts on FR, you have a lot of pent-up anger. You are downright rude over and over again. Angry, maybe dangerous. Why? What has you so lathered up in anger that it drips from every comment you write on FR? Maybe you’d like to share and we can all help?
Yes, my best friend, a Marine helicopter pilot, died of Agent Orange years ago. I cannot unforget the night he died, seeing what that had done to him.
This question is meant in all friendliness, and with all due respect to your opinion.
Some die otherwise (not on the battlefield) but while still in service.
What of them?
It’s also not “Happy” Memoriall Day.
Nothing wrong with telling my fellow veterans thanks for your service on memorial weekend. I always follow up with “remember those who gave all”. I say the same thing on veterans day.
You should remember, if it wasn’t for the veterans who survived, we wouldn’t know the stories of those who didn’t.
Remember that.
Yes. It’s akin to a solemnity. By no means a feast day!
So many veterans who die can be recognized as having sacrificed, during their active service, the better part of their youth, vigor, vitality, etc. Every veteran’s situation is different of course.
Absolutely correct.
Memorial Day is to pay our respects for the military who gave their lives in service, in defense of the US.
‘A lot of Vietnam veterans die everyday from the effects of Agent Orange. Memorial Day is also for them.‘
Why wouldn’t it be?
That seems to explain it quite accurately and clearly.
I was just going to post something similar. Unfortunately, some folks do confuse the two Holidays. This national holiday is reserved for those who died in service for our Nation. Veterans Day, later in the year, is for those who served honorably.
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So AZJoe what are you doing to honor Memorial Day Veterans today besides this little inconsequential post?
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Be on the lookout for threads intended to find more ways to divide people.
Hey jerk, did you ever consider that those veterans still living LOST one of more of their fellow veteran brothers or sisters? Memorial Day is about those who made the ultimate sacrifice and I see no problem thanking a living vet on Memorial Day. You have too much time on your hands.
You have a point. In real life though, the distinction between veteran and honored dead can be complicated. A friend of mine — a veteran badly disabled for life by combat wounds in Vietnam — finds Memorial Day a time of forced and painful reflection on the friends he lost in combat. He also dislikes war movies and documentaries, having had his fill of the real thing and wishing at times that he had never made it off the battlefields that his friends died on.
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