Memorial Day MEMORIAL DAY, Remembering Our Fallen Heroes

Cooking With Carlo ^ | May 23 2003 | Carlo3b

[kellynla]

We will be remembering our fallen brothers and sisters all this coming week. Let's make it a Memorial Week starting on Monday and continuing through Friday. And espeically for those families who lost their loved ones in Iraq and on 9/11. Let us never forget that freedom is not free. Semper Fi

[deadhead]

In Flanders Field

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands, we throw
The torch-Be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

-Captain John D. McCrae

Thank You for the ping Carlo, God Bless All.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks so much for your post, Carlo. That was beautiful!

[Alberta's Child]

Great graphic, Victoria.

Wen I was down in Virginia a couple of weekends ago I took one of my Canadian friends to see all the monuments in D.C. He really wanted to see that Vietnam War Memorial.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the ping, Sam.

[Victoria Delsoul]

The Vietnam War Memorial is a powerful monument, indeed.

[SAMWolf]

Always Remember

[Alberta's Child]

Have you ever seen the memorial up close?

I wasn't able to figure out how the names are arranged on it (this was one of the questions that the Canadian guy asked me) -- some of them seem like they are in alphabetical order, but then in some places on the same panel they'll start all over again at the letter "A."

[Victoria Delsoul]

Always Remember

I will always remember.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Have you ever seen the memorial up close? I wasn't able to figure out how the names are arranged on it.

Yes, I know what you mean. Maybe Sam can help us about that. Sam, see post # 48.

[SAMWolf]

They are in chronological order, according to the date of casualty within each day, the names are alphabetized. For the dead, the date of casualty is the date they were wounded (received in combat) or injured (received in an accident); for the missing, the date they were reported to be missing.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Oh, I see. Thanks so much for the info, Sam.

[carlo3b]

Thank you, we will not forget... and it is our duty to teach the young, why they are fortunate enough to be free.

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome. It also starts in the middle of the memorial goes to the left and then ends in the middle.

[carlo3b]

Our prayers will be adding Marine Capt. Andrew La Mont, to it's growing list..bless and keep you my dear friend.

[Alberta's Child]

That explains it -- thanks a million.

I guess the wall is divided into two main sections -- everything up to 1969 on one side and everything up to 1975 on the other? I seem to remember seeing those two years posted at the right-hand side of each section.

My Canadian friend wondered why I was so subdued while we were there -- he asked if I knew anyone whose name was on the wall.

I told him I was subdued because as an American with a bit of historical perspective I was too cynical to spend much time there in the right frame of mind. In my opinion, a more appropriate Vietnam War "memorial" would have had statues of Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara in a hollow pit in the ground -- and visitors would be invited on a daily basis to bury them in crap up to their armpits.

[carlo3b]

The least we can do is give a moment in memory of those who gave a lifetime for us.

I agree, it is the very least we should do, ....have a great weekend.

[SAMWolf]

I like your idea. I've only seen the traveling Wall, never been to DC. Even the traveling wall chokes one up.

[carlo3b]

MY FLAGS WILL INDEED BE FLYING..HIGH.. thanks my friend, see you soon.

[Victoria Delsoul]

and visitors would be invited on a daily basis to bury them in crap up to their armpits.

LOL, a light touch to a somber moment.