The FReeper Foxhole - Memorial Day - May 26, 2008

May 26, 2008 | snippy and samwolf

[snippy_about_it]

Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.

Amen.
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for all those serving their country at this time.


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Memorial Day 2008

"Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day." -- VFW 2002 Memorial Day address

Memorial Day used to be a solemn day of mourning, a sacred day of remembrance to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. Businesses closed for the day. Towns held parades honoring the fallen, the parade routes often times ending at a local cemetery, where Memorial Day speeches were given and prayers offered up. People took the time that day to clean and decorate with flowers and flags the graves of those the fell in service to their country.

Unfortunately, when Congress made Memorial day into a mandatory three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363), it made it all the easier for us to be distracted from the spirit and meaning of the day.

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[Professional Engineer]

That one guy is about to fall over. Good thing the other 3 are there to pick him up.

[girlangler]

Thanks all of you for the comments.

The funeral is tomorrow evening, and the interment is Thursday with full military honors.

I know I will not have a dry eye when I watch that much deserved military salute.

Delbert would be so proud.

I had a friend from Greeneville (Delbert’s hometown, two hours from here) call me today and tell me they heard his obituary read on the local radio station, and I was listed as a very special relative/friend.

Grammy, when we fish in Nashville next week we’ll catch a few bass for Delbert. He was a bass fishing fanatic, and may give us a little help from above.

[alfa6]

Greetings all, how about a quiz this fine ersat Monday evening. Can ya ID the 4 aircraft in this pic?

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[tanknetter]

Greetings all, how about a quiz this fine ersat Monday evening. Can ya ID the 4 aircraft in this pic?

L to R: P-40, Hawker Hurricane, F4U Corsair and another P-40.

[alfa6]

Well that didn't take long :-)

I was kinda hoping the Hawker would throw folks off.

Here's a almost identical head on shot of just a Hurricane

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[SAMWolf]

A Corsair for sure, a Spitfire and a P40, maybe 2?

[SAMWolf]

Darn!! Can’t believe I took the Hawker for a Spit!!!

[Marine_Uncle]

"I know I will not have a dry eye when I watch that much deserved military salute."
I know what you mean.

[tanknetter]

I was kinda hoping the Hawker would throw folks off.

Well, in all fairness I got to see the National Air and Space Museum's Hurricane at several points during its restoration process out at Garber.

[Professional Engineer]

Darn!! Can’t believe I took the Hawker for a Spit!!!

Amateur.

I almost called it a Mustang.

[alfa6]

I thought the Hurricane was a YAK-3 at first because of the radiator scoop.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[alfa6]

Speaking of trailers here is what I've been upto, part of the last two days.

Oldest daughter wanted a trailer for her bike. She has a wagon I made for her some years back out of wrecked one a friend gave me. So yesterday we bring the wagon and the bike over to our house, because thats where all the cool tools are, according to the kid:-)

So anyways after staring at the bike and trailer in the workshop and looking at some bike trailers on a website called "Instructables" I had an idea. I had a piece of 1/2" copper pipe laying handy so I used it for proof of concept. After that and rummaging around for some odd parts here and there we had a plan. One trip to the hardware store and voila we had a solution.

Close up of the conduit and U-bolt trailer hitch.

The daughter tried to ride it home last night but we did not think to use a double nut and lock washer on the trailer/ hitch connection and after about a mile the trailer came off. This morning we went back to the hardware store and picked up a couple of castle nuts and hitch pin clips so that the nuts can't back off. She made it home in about an hour instead of the usuall 30 minutes. She said that she stopped about every mile or so to check all the connections but had no problems.

The only thing wrong with the whole set up is the wheels. We will have to look for some better wheels as the wheel on the trailer are only made to run around in the yard, not pulled along for miles behind a bike:-) Maybe we can find some better wheels at Harbor Fright.

Tell Spiderboy to get busy I'm gaining on him, he he he

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Tell Spiderboy to get busy I'm gaining on him, he he he

Ruh roh. Msdrby, the kids and gramma are about to leave for a two week tour of The South.

We're gonna get more behinder.

[Professional Engineer]

Good evenin' ladies and gents. We don't have a lot of build progress to show off for Project Teardrop.

I did get the profile for the sides drawn today. I also got it plotted full size. A 500ft spool of paper works wonders...

In addition to Teardrop stuff, I repaired the flagpole halyard here at Castle Sp'aarrgghh'ksalot.

[Soaring Feather]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

[alfa6]

Shiver me timbers lad, the Jolly Roger was just the thing to brighten me day now :-)

Tis a good thing the Mrs is gone, eh?

Hope they have a good and safe trip in the wilds of the South

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Shiver me timbers lad, the Jolly Roger was just the thing to brighten me day now :-)

Flag have a way of doing that, don’t they.

[Professional Engineer]

;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Full size plot, whoa. Don’t let the tree huggers know.

[Professional Engineer]

Full size plot, whoa. Don’t let the tree huggers know.

It's a good thing we're not building an EM-50 then.