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MAF HONORS OUR TROOPS PAST AND PRESENT WITH THOUSANDS OF PATRIOTS AT THE USS IOWA!  Troopathon Operations Director Scott Raab and Online Marketing Director Jon Salazar were on site in San Pedro, Calif. today for a huge Memorial Day event at the USS Iowa. Thousands of patriots gathered together with MAF and our Southern California radio partners KRLA AM870 The Answer. This WW2-era battleship USS Iowa was built in 1940 and saw action in the Pacific Theater in WW2 as well as Korea. She is now a museum on full display while docked in San Pedro, one of only four ships remaining of her class of fast battleship. TODAY IS MEMORIAL DAY AND WE Bristling with guns after being reactivated and refit thanks to President Ronald Reagan's efforts to beef up the Navy, she carries 9 huge 16-inch guns, 20 5-inch guns, as well as over 30 long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, and a plethora of various anti-aircraft weapons. This Battleship weighs in at over 45,000 tons and is over 887 feet in length. Despite her age, she remains a testament to U.S. sea power. Move America Forward was proud to join the thousands of patriots who came out to the USS Iowa today in honor of our troops who fell in the line of duty. Included in that number were 47 sailors who tragically died in an accidental turret explosion on one of the USS Iowa's guns in April of 1989. Memorial Day is a day to celebrate all of our warriors, past and present, who have died in the line of duty, defending our country. Honor those brave few who made the ultimate sacrifice! We still have over 68,000 troops serving in Afghanistan, willing to make that same sacrifice. They're in harms way right now, on our behalf. GIVE THANKS TODAY for their service as a way of honoring those men and women who have died in the line of duty.
STILL HAVE TROOPS IN HARM'S WAY!  DON'T FORGET ABOUT OUR TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN! As we gather with family and friends today to celebrate Memorial Day, don't forget WHY we're celebrating. Memorial Day is about honoring those men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. Ever since our Nation's founding, America has always depended on brave individuals who were willing to lay down their lives to defend our freedoms. This weekend is to honor those brave few throughout the years who made the ultimate sacrifice for our sake. We still have over 68,000 troops serving in Afghanistan, willing to make that same sacrifice. They're in harms way right now, on our behalf. Let's resolve to thank them this Memorial Day for their service as a way of honoring those men and women who have died in the line of duty. |
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... 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)
