Tomorrow, Monday May 25th is memorial day. It is the day we honor our military, more importantly those who gave their lives.
Memorial day is not all about fun and games and cookouts and picnics; it is serious, and we should remember the true meaning of it.
I ask that tomorrow, May 25th you take time and remember what it is all about; that you thank God for your military, and remember those who have fallen.
I am asking because I know that many times I am guilty of forgetting what Memorial Day really is. So if would remember and not make the same mistake I often do, that would be wonderful, and possibly a blessing to many.
Have a wonderful Memorial day.
*-*Nicole
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Thank you for the lovely reminder. My Great- Grandfather fought in WWII and my Grandpa was in Vietnam. My GG wrote a fictional book set during WWII...it's called "Wild Strawberries" :) I guess that writing runs in the family (sort of)
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"Yes, words are useless! Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble! Too much of it, darling, too much! That is why I show you my work! That is why you are here!" --Edna Mode (the Incredibles)
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it." -- Herman Melville
Dog food?! That is horrible.
Dog food?! That is horrible. Oh that's unthinkable.
Cool. What did your great do? I mean was he infantry, was he a piolt, navy person? My Grandad was in WWI. He was a- you actually I don't know what he was. I need to find out.
Alecia I am still shuddering. The blindness and stupidity of people. Yes I will remember those in the Vietnam war especially.
"Here are the beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." C.S.Lewis
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived."
General George S. Patton
My great was in the Army --
My great was in the Army -- stationed in the Philippines. He based a lot of his book off his experiences there :)
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"Yes, words are useless! Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble! Too much of it, darling, too much! That is why I show you my work! That is why you are here!" --Edna Mode (the Incredibles)
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it." -- Herman Melville
Cool. I found out that my
Cool. I found out that my grand was in Europe.
By the way is that book published? 'cause if it is, I would like to read it.
"Here are the beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." C.S.Lewis
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived."
General George S. Patton
Europe...cool :)
Yes the book is published. You can find it on Amazon.com by Robert Grosse. That was the only place I could find that had it :D
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"Yes, words are useless! Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble! Too much of it, darling, too much! That is why I show you my work! That is why you are here!" --Edna Mode (the Incredibles)
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it." -- Herman Melville
Man, I still haven't read
Man, I still haven't read Wild Strawberries. I need to do that. (He's my Great Grandpa two.) I have to say AMEN to this post. It's awesome that you put this on here. About the dog food, that's how we lost in Vietnam. (Is that right? Oh well. I'm a horrible speller.) Just telling are solders stuff like that makes them believe they can't win. I hate it when they break their backs for us, and some liberal idiot sends them stuff like that!
Nate-Dude
Old Fashioned Girl's and my
Old Fashioned Girl's and my great-grand drove a car for the genaral once. (No I'm not kidding.)
Nate-Dude
Technically we didn't loose
Technically we didn't loose the Vietnam war. But I still get your point. Stupid people who have no idea what they're talking about doing stuff like that to our troops is unforgivable. Those stupid people don't even realize that it's because of or troops that they can protest and do idiotic stuff like that. Stuff like that drives me up the wall.
A general? That's fun. Did he do it as a regular job type thing or just once? 'cause if it was his job that is really cool.......
"Here are the beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." C.S.Lewis
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived."
General George S. Patton
I don't know. I'll ask my
I don't know. I'll ask my Dad for you. I think he drove the general a few times, but I'm not sure. And I'll also ask my Dad which general it was.
P.S. Your bio says your 103! What's up with that? (If you really are 103, which i don't believe is true, then you could have been my great grandpa's school teacher. Or something like that.)
Nate-Dude
Thu, 06/11/2009 - 01:18
In reply to I don't know. I'll ask my by I am Nate-Dude
Ok, my Great Grandpa did
Ok, my Great Grandpa did drive the general as a regular job. I don't know which one though.
Nate-Dude
That is really cool. So your
That is really cool. So your great's job was driving a general....nice very nice.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.
General George S. Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived."
General George S. Patton
I didn't read this before
I didn't read this before Memorial Day, but I have a cousin going to fight soon and I did think a lot about the soldiers, both dead and alive.
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Yeah, I know I do that too.
Yeah, I know I do that too. Thanks for the reminder.
Also I want to share this with the people on here: Yesterday in church a man was honoring people in the military, and he said that druing the Vietnam war someone in California sent all the soldiers a packedge with a can of dog food and a letter saying "If you're going to act like animals eat like them." Isn't that awful? Doesn't it just make you shuder and think, "what has our country come to?"
So with this in mind, I would especially like to remember and honor those in the Vietnam war.
Once again: thanks for the reminder.....
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