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FReeper Canteen ~ MEMORIAL DAY 2024 ~ 27 May 2024
Serving the Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew

Posted on 05/26/2024 5:05:06 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska





~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ MEMORIAL DAY 2024 ~


TAPS




Canteen Mission Statement


Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.




In honor of those who lost their lives while serving our country, we would like to share with you President Ronald Reagan's 1986 Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery:



Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen heroes and to pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It’s a day of thanks for the valor of others, a day to remember the splendor of America and those of her children who rest in this cemetery and others. It’s a day to be with the family and remember.

I was thinking this morning that across the country children and their parents will be going to the town parade and the young ones will sit on the sidewalks and wave their flags as the band goes by. Later, maybe, they’ll have a cookout or a day at the beach. And that’s good, because today is a day to be with the family and to remember.

Arlington, this place of so many memories, is a fitting place for some remembering. So many wonderful men and women rest here, men and women who led colorful, vivid, and passionate lives. There are the greats of the military: Bull Halsey and the Admirals Leahy, father and son; Black Jack Pershing; and the GI’s general, Omar Bradley. Great men all, military men. But there are others here known for other things.

Here in Arlington rests a sharecropper’s son who became a hero to a lonely people. Joe Louis came from nowhere, but he knew how to fight. And he galvanized a nation in the days after Pearl Harbor when he put on the uniform of his country and said, “I know we’ll win because we’re on God’s side.” Audie Murphy is here, Audie Murphy of the wild, wild courage. For what else would you call it when a man bounds to the top of a disabled tank, stops an enemy advance, saves lives, and rallies his men, and all of it single-handedly. When he radioed for artillery support and was asked how close the enemy was to his position, he said, “Wait a minute and I’ll let you speak to them.” [Laughter]

Michael Smith is here, and Dick Scobee, both of the space shuttle Challenger. Their courage wasn’t wild, but thoughtful, the mature and measured courage of career professionals who took prudent risks for great reward; in their case, to advance the sum total of knowledge in the world. They’re only the latest to rest here; they join other great explorers with names like Grissom and Chaffee.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is here, the great jurist and fighter for the right. A poet searching for an image of true majesty could not rest until he seized on Holmes dissenting in a sordid age. Young Holmes served in the Civil War. He might have been thinking of the crosses and stars of Arlington when he wrote: “At the grave of a hero we end, not with sorrow at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a kind of desperate joy we go back to the fight”.

All of these men were different, but they shared this in common: They loved America very much. There was nothing they wouldn’t do for her. And they loved with the sureness of the young. It’s hard not to think of the young in a place like this, for it’s the young who do the fighting and dying when a peace fails and a war begins. Not far from here is the statue of the three servicemen;the three fighting boys of Vietnam. It, too, has majesty and more. Perhaps you’ve seen it;three rough boys walking together, looking ahead with a steady gaze. There’s something wounded about them, a kind of resigned toughness. But there’s an unexpected tenderness, too. At first you don’t really notice, but then you see it. The three are touching each other, as if they’re supporting each other, helping each other on.

I know that many veterans of Vietnam will gather today, some of them perhaps by the wall. And they're still helping each other on. They were quite a group, the boys of Vietnam; boys who fought a terrible and vicious war without enough support from home, boys who were dodging bullets while we debated the efficacy of the battle. It was often our poor who fought in that war; it was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march. They learned not to rely on us; they learned to rely on each other. And they were special in another way: They chose to be faithful. They chose to reject the fashionable skepticism of their time. They chose to believe and answer the call of duty. They had the wild, wild courage of youth. They seized certainty from the heart of an ambivalent age; they stood for something.

And we owe them something, those boys. We owe them first a promise: That just as they did not forget their missing comrades, neither, ever, will we. And there are other promises. We must always remember that peace is a fragile thing that needs constant vigilance. We owe them a promise to look at the world with a steady gaze and, perhaps, a resigned toughness, knowing that we have adversaries in the world and challenges and the only way to meet them and maintain the peace is by staying strong.

That, of course, is the lesson of this century, a lesson learned in the Sudetenland, in Poland, in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, in Cambodia. If we really care about peace, we must stay strong. If we really care about peace, we must, through our strength, demonstrate our unwillingness to accept an ending of the peace. We must be strong enough to create peace where it does not exist and strong enough to protect it where it does. That's the lesson of this century and, I think, of this day. And that's all I wanted to say. The rest of my contribution is to leave this great place to its peace, a peace it has earned.

Thank all of you, and God bless you, and have a day full of memories.

Note: The President spoke at 10:10 a.m. at the Memorial Amphitheater. Prior to his remarks, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier



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To: ExTexasRedhead

RIP, dear Airman.

God bless you.


21 posted on 05/26/2024 7:29:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: mbrfl

The Ballad Of The Green Beret...thanks, mbrfl. ((HUGS)) And welcome to the Canteen.


22 posted on 05/26/2024 7:31:20 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Songcraft

Good evening, Songcraft....Go Rest High On That Mountain. So fitting. Thank you. ((HUGS))


23 posted on 05/26/2024 8:05:06 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Songcraft

I really respect, and have great admiration for, the buglers that play TAPS, anywhere.


24 posted on 05/26/2024 8:08:34 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Thank him in your prayers for me.


25 posted on 05/26/2024 8:10:00 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Kathy in Alaska

It would be nice if the sun will come out for a while so you can enjoy some fresh air. Does a body good. :-)

Come on, Momma Duck, show back up with those tiny adorable babies so Kathy can oooo and aaaah over them.

Very good getting two projects done today. Just have to keep chipping away at them when time allows.
I got pretty much nothing done today. LOL


26 posted on 05/26/2024 8:15:39 PM PDT by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
White Cross on Okinawa--Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1945)
27 posted on 05/26/2024 8:17:59 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Songcraft

My monitor always gets fuzzy with Nearer My God To Thee. Now is no exception.


28 posted on 05/26/2024 8:21:41 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Stars & Stripes on Iwo Jima--Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1945)

Bob promised that Old Glory would always fly over Mt. Suribachi, but the Meat Ball replaced it in 1968.

29 posted on 05/26/2024 8:27:00 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: mbrfl

Thank you so much for your kindness!


30 posted on 05/26/2024 8:30:17 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

TAPS

RIP

Retired Captain, USAF
F-100 fighter pilot, Vietnam


Air Force Hymn

US Air Force Hymn

Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
Through the great spaces of the sky;
Be with them traversing the air
In darkening storms or sunshine fair

Thou who dost keep with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight
Thou of the tempered winds be near
That, having thee, they know no fear

Control their minds with instinct fit
What time, adventuring, they quit
The firm security of land;
Grant steadfast eye and skilful hand

Aloft in solitudes of space,
Uphold them with Thy saving grace.
O God, protect the men who fly
Thru lonely ways beneath the sky.


31 posted on 05/26/2024 8:30:37 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

TAPS

RIP

PFC Carl Rogers Stovall USA
Bedford County, Tennessee


Amazing Grace

32 posted on 05/26/2024 8:37:10 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: fidelis

Good evening, fidelis...a reminder that needs to be made over and over and over! Thank you.


33 posted on 05/26/2024 8:40:13 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska; GodBlessUSA; radu; mylife; MS.BEHAVIN; ConorMacNessa; PROCON; laurenmarlowe; ...


Note On A White Stone Cross
click

“...I promise: I will not squander a moment
—not a breath, not a sunset, not a laugh.
I will live to honor the gift you gave me.
The life I owe to you.
I will never forget...

Until next time,
Your Brother.” -@jockowillink

🇺🇸 Remember Our Fallen Heroes....Always 🇺🇸
On This Memorial Day Weekend


34 posted on 05/26/2024 8:51:02 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American.🇺🇸)
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To: Fiji Hill

Good evening, Fiji...thanks for White Cross on Okinawa. ((HUGS))


35 posted on 05/26/2024 9:07:04 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska
My Dad and I used to go to this Memorial Day service every year.


36 posted on 05/26/2024 9:09:41 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: All

For The Dear Old Flag I Die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VvJ-rDlGk


37 posted on 05/26/2024 9:09:43 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Kathy in Alaska

RIP Eddie,

56 years ago, your war ended.


38 posted on 05/26/2024 9:15:33 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Stars & Stripes on Iwo Jima...great song, Bob Wills and your Texas Playboys.


39 posted on 05/26/2024 9:24:08 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: mbrfl

I haven’t heard that one, mbrfl. Thanks!


40 posted on 05/26/2024 9:46:26 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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