"Will They Even Remember My Name??"---MEMORIAL DAY 2006--Thread#1

5/25/06 | redrock

[cibco]

I always remember Eddie Frowner on Memorial Day besides the other days.

[KTM rider]

Thanks Redrock , I needed to have a real memorial day, this story brings it home

[KitJ]

Thanks, Redrock.

Here's to Chad and Paul and my other fallen brothers.

Kit.
US Army, Afghanistan
OIF I
OEF VII

[AlaskaErik]

He was shot down and served 6 months in a POW camp manned by the Russians but survived.

I thought the Russians were our allies at the time. Shouldn't he have been repatriated?

[Seadog Bytes]

God Bless you too, Chaplain. ...And Thank You for your outstanding service to our nation, for helping to protect our way of life, for the benefit of all our children and grandchildren.
  -sb (USN 65-72)

[E.G.C.]

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[sargunner]

Rock,
Great post. Welcome home Brother.

[Northern Yankee]

Priceless.

I too had a good friend by the name of Rick, while in the service.

We both played guitars, and were stationed together at two bases throughout our four years.

He was one of the best, and died within months after getting out of the Air Force. Car crash. (Your letter struck such a deep chord with me.)

Today our class will be commemorating all those who have died within the service of our country.

I will be thinking of both Ricks this morning.

God Bless!

Semper FI

[PigRigger]

Tomorrow my family and I will be planting flags on the graves of those resting at Calverton Cemetery on Long Island. It is a Girl Scout tradition that my wife's troop was asked to participate in this year.

My two little girls will visit their grand father's and uncle's graves.

I pray tomorrow they come back with a better understanding of what these men and women sacrificed for all of us.



May God Bless and Protect our Troops and President as they bring the fight to the enemies of Freedom....

[Marine_Uncle]

Truely these fine men and women in uniform for the most part serve with honor. Like many at FR and elsewhere I treat each day as Memorial Day, in often rememberance of many of them over the many years that have had to pay the ultimate sacrifice as well as those WIA.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Dedicated to Ricky and surf bums everywhere.

Thanks for the post. We all personally know someone who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

Glad you kept your promises to your buddy.

Surfing for him and remembering Ricky's name.

[Valin]

It is NOT about a three day weekend.

It is NOT about picnic's and barbecue's.


It IS about this Nation keeping it's word.


It IS about remembering the 'Ricky's' in our past who gave up their future so everyone could be Free.


I guess the question is...can YOU give up one day for them????


I could not put it better.

[ladtx]

A Memorial Day tribute to Army Aviation.

I AM ARMY AVIATION

My Olive green chest has donned a host of great names: Kelly, Rosbeck, Dempsey, Holloway and a multitude of others that have etched my worn and weary smile on history`s mirror.

From a humble beginning, I have climbed to the summit. I have seen my family mature in the hottest of cold wars and have mixed my blood, sweat and tears with the brackish paddies of Nam Can and the crytal blue of Dong Ha.

Thus, I have paid the price of involvement, earned my badge of courage and come of age. On my durable wing I have leisurely soared through the thin humid skies over Ia Drang and my rotor wash has uncovered" Charlie" in the mangroves of Ca Mau.

From Soc Trang, Blackhorse,and LANE, I have flown and have sent my tracers slicing through the Asian dusk and dawn....stabbing at the elusive shadows that menace freedom. My rockets have given relief to my brothers-in-arms and brought smoke, flames and death to our enemies.

With keen vision and through my ingenuity I have found my enemy....the tyrant, the oppressor, who would deny his fellow man`s rights. I have guided the awesome terror of my cousins` shells to fix the fleeting, faceless guerilla.

On my back the Queen of Battle showed the fury of her long rifle. Together, through swamp and jungle, we have pursued, engaged and won.

The battle for democracy will go on until free men everywhere have won the age old conflict with forces of oppression, the shadows of darkness, the face of hate.

Whether at home or on foreign shores, I will be there....keeping my faith in God and Country....BECAUSE...........I AM ARMY AVIATION!

This was written in 1970 by Major Larry E. Joyce, Infantry, U.S. Army

[S.O.L.]

Here's to LTC's Kilgore's "Perfect Surf!" and to the memory of the 1/9's loach pilots who never DEROS'd:

To fallen soldiers let us sing
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord.

No more bleeding, no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
Just divine embrace, eternal light
In the Mansions of the Lord.

Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
Through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord

[Centurion2000]

I am not a writer (as I have been reminded time after time on FR)..but I'm here and will stand my post until relieved.

Well said.

[AprilfromTexas]

WOW, I love that photo! Very poignant.

(...as for your tag line, maybe you folks could do something about that the next he comes up for reelection...)

[AprilfromTexas]

I wish I could be there for that this weekend!! Enjoy it for me, Just a Nobody!!

Give Concretebob a big hug for me when you see him!

[AprilfromTexas]

Thank you, Kit, for your service to our Country...and my heartfelt thanks for your fallen brothers. It's a privilege to honor them this weekend.