How have you all spent your Memorial Day? Some day, we'll get to a Memorial Day parade in Chicago. Parades are weird and cool?
I spent the day reminding my friends and family what memorial day is about. Since it has been moved from May 30th to the last monday in May (to make a 3-day weekend), it has become a 'day off' instead of a day to remember. Think about it for a minute - today, just one day out of 365, is to remember the innumerable people who gave their lives IN HOPES that it would preserve our freedoms, our way of life, everything we enjoy.In their final moments, they know not whether or not they've died in vein.
The least we can do is to remember them and honor them for that.
Put flowers out at the cemetery is a traditional "reason for the season.
I am following her example and finishing my Master's degree overseas, sending my love from 5,000 miles away to the rest of my family and all those remembering a service member on Memorial Day. Her full story can be found here. Submitted by Raquel Gonzalez.
I would like to thank all of our service men and women for being part of the force that guards this country day and night. Being a Vietnam veteran myself, I know the sacrifices that these service members make every day and most will never know how much we depend on them for our safety. I especially want to welcome back my nephew, Marine Robert Wellman, who has recently returned from Afghanistan.
Welcome home Robert, I'm glad you returned safe and sound. Have a very special and safe Memorial Day. Pictured here is my father in the early eighties.
We had just moved to America from Vietnam after the ARVN lost South Vietnam.
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