Posted on 05/27/2025 10:18:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Ah, these Mondays.
These Memorial Day Mondays.
Honoring the sacrifice of so many and remembering what conflicts, large and small, have cost us in the nation's blood and treasure.
There are so many beautiful places of honor where many of them now rest.
NAS Pensacola has a National Cemetery. When we first moved here, it was still confined to what is lovingly referred to as 'The Old Section.' The narrow lanes dotted with circles are enrobed with massive oaks, Spanish moss, and that deep, lovely green even on the hottest, most blistering of Pensacola summer days.
You can believe souls rest easy under these sprawling, towering guardians.
The site's been used as a cemetery since the earliest days of the naval base itself, dating back to the Spanish who built the first Fort Barrancas, for which it's named. Beginning in 1838, it was established as the U.S. Navy cemetery and has the remains of both Confederate and Union soldiers, as there had been fierce outbreaks of fighting in the area during the Civil War.
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Beautiful pictures.
Why can’t I see the pictures on your About page?
My ashes will be entombed at the Riverside National Cemetery, CA. My Father’s ashes are also there. He was a infantry combat soldier during WWII in Europe. He was heading to Japan just before the A-bomb hit Nagasaki.
Don’t know, been wondering that myself for some time....
The links must have gone inactive.
Three generations of my family are buried at NAS - Pensacola. Several in the Old Section.
SGM Thomas P. Casey, veteran of the Mexican Expedition and WW I is buried with a non regulation headstone as is his son in law and fellow veteran, Frank Kirkland.
Uncles, stepfather, all of their spouses.
Someday, I will be buried there as well.
RLTW
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