Posted on 05/26/2024 5:05:06 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
That entrance sure gets your attention. I like it a lot!
Aaaah, it’s at Denali State Park. I didn’t think that highway looked like it was in the Anchorage area. That’s why I asked.
A bit of a drive but what isn’t in AK? LOL With the gorgeous countryside, it must be a very nice drive.
I couldn’t help but giggle a little when I read that on a clear day, you can see Denali from just outside the memorial.
On a clear day, you can see Denali from Anchorage!
I was in Rolling Thunder from 1991 to 1999.
But I only rode in from Boston...not Alaska!
I recd this from a retired USMC Col (30 yrs).
Party on the Mountain by Michael W. Rodriguez
http://www.vietvet.org/ptymtn.htm
Dedicated to Charley Trujillo, author of Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
The 2nd Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, left their pleasant little Tactical Area of Responsibility (TAOR) in September of 1967 for the dubious honor of assisting the 3rd Marine Division in its mission to keep the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) from decivilizing (and depopulating) the DMZ.
We set up on our mountain west of Khe Sanh-just where I never did know, and did not very much care-and ran a few company-size patrols to get a feel for our new TAOR.
My Bró, Luis Alejandro Parker, was sent on “R and R” soon after we went north, so he missed the impromptu party held one late afternoon by the battalion’s Chicanos on our mountain. Who started it is lost to time and memory:
Wendy Bell Radio - Rumble
Some Gave All (Wendy has an awesome podcast that I highly recommend subscribing to)
https://rumble.com/v4xoj7z-some-gave-all.html?mref=22lbp&mrefc=3
We are LIVE this Memorial Day with the sights & sounds of America’s most important holiday. Hear deeply moving stories from 400+ days of ferocious fighting in Afghanistan from Army Ranger Sean Parnell, who tells us what it’s like to come home when some of your men do not. Listen to the bugles playing Taps across America as veterans serving in Congress work together to clean the Vietnam War Memorial. And hear touching stories told by the loved ones whose lives were forever changed by a knock on the door.
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Does anyone have the Angels Flight - I have not seen the video this Memorial Day?
A stranger set out to return discarded Army uniforms, but what she actually returned was hope
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/army-uniforms-dumpster-sergeant-keith-mckenzie/
Waco, Texas — Donna Parker began the journey to find the owner of Army uniforms she found at the bottom of a dumpster more than two years ago.
Finding the owner and answers to her questions — “Why are they in the trash?” — became an obsession, she said.
But all she had to go on was the common last name, McKenzie. Parker researched, posted on social media and even set up tables at festivals around her home in Lexington, Kentucky, hoping someone might know who the uniforms belonged to. Eventually, she did find the full name.
“And when I did, his obituary was the first thing that came up,” Parker said. “And it hit me like it would a family member.”
He was too young.
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Hope you get to take some time off for yourselves today. Packing going well? Time is short. LOL!
Thanks: I tear up for this song. I was also in a VFW Honor Guard and commanded the team for 7 years- over 800 funeral honors, over 500 flag ceremonies on Memorial Day, 4th of July, Veteran’s Day and 9-11. I presented the flag for about 400 funerals and it is hard even now to think about it.
This is very important as closure for the family, but I got burned out.
Yikes. I’m so sorry to hear that!
Has the sun set yet in your time zone? Hopefully, the night will be cooler.
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