"We Can Be Heroes...Just For One Day"
MEMORIAL DAY ~ Thread # 1
"Just Another Drunk Indian"
MEMORIAL DAY ~ Thread # 2
"Chocolate Chip Cookies"
MEMORIAL DAY ~ Thread # 3
"Hey...Do Ya Wanna Hear a Polish Joke?"
MEMORIAL DAY ~ Thread # 4
Final ~ "Falls The Night"
MEMORIAL DAY ~ Thread # 7
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To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
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Bob promised that Old Glory would always fly over Mt. Suribachi, but the Meat Ball replaced it in 1968.
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RIP Eddie,
56 years ago, your war ended.
We had KFC for supper yesterday.
Yesterday at Comanche Lake:
How's everyone doing this morning?
Evening, Kathy. Thanks for honoring our fallen soldiers. We must never forget their service.
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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Here’s another very interesting video about WWII that I just watched:
Recording World War II veterans for posterity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Bnnxx0OJQ
Vincent Speranza, who served as a paratrooper during the Battle of the Bulge, died last year at age 98. But visitors to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans can still talk to him, and – thanks to voice recognition software and artificial intelligence – hear answers to their questions about Speranza’s experiences during and after the war. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with the museum’s vice president Peter Crean about the race against time to preserve the stories of the men and women who fought in the war, and with some of the veterans who will be able to “speak” to future generations.
