Posted on 05/23/2008 6:01:38 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
I think I’m hooked on Youtube!
I’ve been watching my favorite Metallica VIDS FOR THE LAST HOUR!
You’re always welcome Kathy.
OUR TROOPS ARE THE BEST!
What a good thing you are teaching your children.
Yes, bittersweet, but we must NEVER forget.
Hope the wedding was fun. Thanks, alfa, for the special Friday Flyby.
You’re still awake?
Why?
Cuz I’m only up to #350...trying to get to 500, but the zzzzz monster is chasing me. And your excuse? LOL!
I don’t have one...
In fact I was just shutting down!
Dogs say It’s safe to head to the house!
G’Night Ma! Try a pillow tonight!
Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.
How about a donut?
Coffee is always on........
Or a sandwich?
Good night, Randy and rest well. Thanks for helping honor and entertain our troops and thank you for your service to our country.
Good Sunday morning Kathy. (60) Going to see the boys play tonight.
Good night.
No, it's about game 12. Opening day for The Boss and I, however.
A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.
Music bumps for all the songs in the Canteen.
I am very touched, Kathy - thank you very much./Just Asking - seoul62..........
Scouts get lesson while placing flags for Memorial Day weekend
By Laura Ory
Herald/Review
Published on Sunday, May 25, 2008
SIERRA VISTA — Anna Showalter took a photograph of her young grandson at his father’s grave on Saturday.
On the ground was a vase they decorated with a photo of he and his father, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert D. Rogers, smiling together. Isaiah Rogers had the same smile as his grandmother snapped the photograph. An American flag placed there a few minutes before was waving in front of the headstone and hundreds of others.
Troop 445 Boy Scouts Kevin Lavallee, 12, left, and Stephen Martin, 11, place flags at the headstones of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen Saturday in preparation for Memorial Day at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. (Mark Levy-Herald/Review)
“We stayed until they put his daddy’s flag in,” Showalter said. “I’m honored that they would do this.”
Showalter was one of the visitors thanking local Boy Scout troops 445 and 447 for placing hundreds of American flags at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. The tradition was adopted by the local troops since the cemetery was dedicated in 2002, said Joe Larson, cemetery administrator. The Boy Scouts also help the cemetery by adding landscaping and fundraising for the Cavalry Soldiers Relocation Project.
About 14 Boy Scouts and some family members helped place the flags in front of each grave stone and at the columbaria, said Charles Mackim, assistant scoutmaster.
“We’re trying to teach these boys to respect the flag and those who died,” he said.
Showalter said that’s the lesson more youth should be learning. Children have told her the holiday is for “the president” or “people who work really hard.” They don’t know it’s for the men and women who died in military service, some of whom are buried at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery, she said.
“It’s for the fallen. It’s for the people who have died for our freedom,” she said.
This was the first Memorial Day weekend Showalter has visited her son’s grave since he died when an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed last November during a training flight in Italy. The U.S. Air Force staff sergeant was one of six people who died.
The holiday has special significance to Showalter because of her son and the Americans who died to liberate her native country, Germany.
Gavin Hungerford, 11, learned the meaning of the holiday while doing the project for the first time with his Boy Scout troop on Saturday.
He walked down the rows of graves to make sure each flag they placed was secure in the ground.
By looking at the dates on the headstones, Joe Scholz, 11, noticed some of the soldiers died when they were young.
By placing the flags at the graves, they were giving them respect, he said.
The cemetery is the final resting place of about 700 men and women. Hundreds of visitors are expected at the cemetery on Memorial Day, where the American flag, the 50 state flags and the service flags will be shown.
A Memorial Day candlelight ceremony will begin at the cemetery, 1300 Buffalo Soldier Trail, at 6:30 p.m.
On the Net
• U.S. Memorial Day information: www.usmemorialday.org/
• History.com’s Memorial Day site: www.history.com/minisites/memorial/
HERALD/REVIEW reporter Laura Ory can be reached at 515-4683 or by e-mail at laura.ory@svherald.com.
ROTFLOL! I like youtube, too. Mostly for cooking, K-pop and J-rock videos, though.
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