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Today is for the military who died serving in war, not for veterans who didn't. Quit disrespecting those who gave all in service to their nation!
05/27/2024 | Me

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


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To: Robert DeLong
"Well, actually that is what Veteran's Day is for, to honor those who served their nation in battle."

Not true. A Veteran need not have been involved in "battle". Just have served honorably in whatever job they had.

41 posted on 05/27/2024 12:33:06 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Az Joe

Be on the lookout for threads intended to find more ways to divide people.


42 posted on 05/27/2024 12:33:39 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Az Joe

I honor ALL Veterans everyday. So stop whining.


43 posted on 05/27/2024 12:34:59 PM PDT by Thomas Jerome
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To: Jane Long

Thank you for the succinct explanation.


44 posted on 05/27/2024 12:35:45 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: All

We are at war.

A war of information, not artillery.

When we allow ourselves to be divided (especially over stupid things) then we give ground to our enemy.


45 posted on 05/27/2024 12:36:01 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: New Perspective

Doe it cover those who were severely wounded or paralyzed in combat?


46 posted on 05/27/2024 12:37:22 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Az Joe
Memorial Day is a uniquely American holiday, but Canada has an annual hockey tournament called the 'Memorial Cup' which happens during this time every year since 1919. Teams and players typically wear the poppy in remembrance of the dead, the same symbol worn during our Remembrance day ceremonies on November 11th, which is America's Veterans day.

In Flanders Field

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields.

- Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae


47 posted on 05/27/2024 12:37:31 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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They have Veteran’s Day.


48 posted on 05/27/2024 12:37:32 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: Az Joe

In the 1950s Passaic NJ had a large Memorial Day parade. Memorial Day was known as Decoration day since it was customary to decorate the graves of servicemen who died in the nation’s wars. Passaic was a city of close to 50,000 composed of immigrants and their children from all parts of Europe, Puerto Rico and a substantial minority of people who traced their lineage to the Revolution. Attendance at that parade was huge. Contingents of the American Legion, VFW, Catholic and Jewish War veterans marched. What was extremely moving was the open emotion and tears of many people lining the parade route as these organization marched behind their colors and always the American flag carried by a veteran. Passaic lost many of its native sons in WW I and WW II. Their families attended and were never ashamed to demonstrate their inconsolable grief and patriotism. The day was not about picnics, barbeques and long weekends.


49 posted on 05/27/2024 12:39:30 PM PDT by allendale
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To: rktman
Memorial Day started out as Decoration Day, after the Civil War. Veterans Day started out as Armistice Day, to celebrate the end of shooting in the War To End All Wars. Both are now Federal holidays, which means "federal employees get paid to stay home day". Probably not the original intent.

At least Armed Forces Day is not a paid day off, as far as I know.

Every day without war is a day to thank veterans.

50 posted on 05/27/2024 12:43:09 PM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: stanne
"What to say to those who thank me for my service today"

I simply say it was my privilege.

51 posted on 05/27/2024 12:43:17 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Az Joe

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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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52 posted on 05/27/2024 12:43:36 PM PDT by RBStealth (-- raised by wolves, educated by nuns)
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To: Az Joe

I’m with you Joe! We (as a country) have been beset by ignorance and mediocrity. In that it, apparently, makes it acceptable to confuse “Memorial Day” with Veteran’s Day. I am a veteran and I am so keenly aware of the difference and its significance, that it grieves me.


53 posted on 05/27/2024 12:45:44 PM PDT by old school
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To: Az Joe

Military holidays are times when I stop to remember how brave men have put on the uniform to defend us. It awes and humbles me. I couldn’t care less what the definition of the day is. No one tells me when I should mourn those gone. I mourn when I see a flag flying on one of the military days.

My grandfather carried a flag on Memorial Day until the government refused to allow him to enlist for World War II in his 70’s. In a fit of pique, he refused after that. He’d been in the Spanish American War and World War I and he was sure there was SOMETHING he could have done for his country in World War II.

My father’s will left money to the bugler who blew Taps over his grave at his funeral. He always regretted being forced to retire from the service. I’ll remember father on these holidays regardless of whether it’s Federally Allowed or not.

Every chance I have to remember helps me keep them alive in my memory and I won’t lose a single chance.

As for those lost in battle, father’s poetry reminds me. He joined the year after World War I ended and he was trained by the men with the stories.

ZERO HOUR

Grey stars agleam in a blank, dead sky
Grey guns agrowl below.
Grey clad men out beyond the wire
Grey fields in the star-shells’ glow.

The barrage is a pounding symphony
That ears attuned cannot hear.
There’s something flicking the parapet
There’s something above you fear!

Not fear of “stopping one” above,
Or fear for the man beside.
There’s something flicking the parapet
There’s a fear you cannot hide.

“Stand by!” The rifle is cool in your hand
And your heart pounds hard and quick.
There’s something flicking the parapet
Number Three of the squad is sick.

The rifle hurts the palm of your hand
Like gripping a stiff, wire brush
There’s something flicking the parapet
“Walk slow through the wire, then rush!”

The whistle! The ladders! Up over the edge!
And your legs seem stiff and sore.
There’s something flicking the parapet
Number Three is sick no more!

Grey stars agleam in a blank, dead sky
Grey guns agrowl below.
Grey faces turned to the glowing stars
Where men lie dead in a row.


54 posted on 05/27/2024 12:52:38 PM PDT by mairdie (Rory's World - Joseph Blanchard https://youtu.be/7XHQVw-hWx8)
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To: allendale

Armed Forces Day in the United States is the third Saturday in May and occurs near the end of Armed Forces week which begins on the second Sunday.


56 posted on 05/27/2024 12:57:26 PM PDT by KC Burke
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Today is for the military who died serving in war

Amen

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57 posted on 05/27/2024 1:00:08 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Az Joe

Didn’t you get the memo? Today is for remembering Saint Floyd of Fentanyl. Biden has commanded us to act in Saint Floyd’s honor...

I wish I were joking but this is Biden’s America now.

I know. Disgusting.


58 posted on 05/27/2024 1:00:44 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: A Navy Vet
Well, yes you are correct.

But that is where we acknowledge those who served in war who survived the experience, and that was the point I was making to distinguish Veterans' Day from Memorial Day.

I apologize for my faux pas of adding the extra word of battle rendering it to be an incorrect statement.

59 posted on 05/27/2024 1:01:18 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: A Navy Vet

Ok that’s a good one.


60 posted on 05/27/2024 1:11:04 PM PDT by stanne
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