22 thoughts on “MEMORIAL DAY

    1. george Post author

      Bob, I agree. But with the stabbing death of that veteran in Portland, I was moved to want to thank living veterans, too. And thank you for your service, too!

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  1. mary mason

    Can’t thank veterans enough in my book.

    I just sent a donation and signed up my dad to be listed in the WWII museum honor roll. (He never went overseas, served as a mechanic in New Mexico and Cuba, and in Cuba he said he got tired of eating lobster.

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      1. mary mason

        They sent me a form and request for donation I’m not sure how they got my info, maybe from my visit to the museum when OGGW there . I should have copied it and sent it to my cousins (dad’s brothers) for their dads

      2. george Post author

        Maggie, Diane and I got our fathers’s names ingraved on the local WORLD WAR II VETERANS memorial at Hyde Park in Niagara Falls.

  2. Jeff Meyerson

    Ditto. My father (and mother, for that matter) was very involved in groups, including the Jewish War Veterans. He was President of his Chapter for a couple of years. He spent much of four years overseas in Britain, keeping our planes in the air.

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    1. george Post author

      Jeff, my father served on a destroyer in the Pacific during WWII. He was very involved in reunions of his fellow shipmates.

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  3. Rick Robinson

    I’m with Bob. If Memorial Day is for veterans, then what’s Veteran’s Day for? Memorial Day used to be to honor all those who’ve passed on, not just soldiers.

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    1. george Post author

      Rick, good point. I confess I was moved by the death of the veteran in Portland and that caused me to chose the graphic for today. I’ll keep what you and the Cap’n wrote in mind for the next Memorial Day blog post.

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  4. Deb

    I have no problem allowing today to be one to honor and thank all veterans–living or dead. Today I especially honor my sister who served in the Air Force for 25 years.

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    1. george Post author

      Deb, I feel the same way you do about Memorial Day. I’m sure your sister appreciates it along with other veterans.

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    1. george Post author

      Rick, we just had rain so there will be a lot of soggy picnics around here. Diane and I are playing it safe with pasta, meatballs, Italian sausages, broccoli, watermelon, and ice cream for dessert. Obviously, we’ll be eating inside.

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  5. Jeff Meyerson

    It’s very quiet around the city this weekend. Even Times Square with all the tourists was not quite as busy as usual yesterday. With the cold, rainy weather it is a bit of a downer around here. We went out for brunch and will be having Italian food – our fallback! – for dinner. (It’s eggplant parmigiana and high fiber spaghetti.)

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  6. wolf

    Also had to think of the veterans in my family and around the world – just read that in the US civil war alone more than half a million soldiers died – and I shudder to think how many gave their life (for what cause ever …) in WW1 and 2.

    I often tell people herein Europe they don’t know how lucky we have been in Europe to have had no (major …) war in the last wo generations – until the middle of last Century there was at least one major war in every generation – in various coalitions.

    What was really crazy: All the kings and emperors in Europe were related, often cousins – but they told their soldiers to fight!

    Many of my uncles died in WW2, my mother’s brother disappeared near Stalingrad without a trace and my father was almost sure that he wouldn’t make it – only the fact that he was shot in the head saved him, he was sent home . Though he was an officer in Hitler’s army he was an honest man who thought he was fighting for his country (mainly against the Russians) and I’m kind of proud to still have the paper by the French authorities that he was not a war criminal, not even a member of the Nazi party -just an “also ran”, the lowest possible level …

    PS:
    My grandmother told me once a family secret:
    My parents married in 1939 just a few weeks before the war was started (as a sergeant my father had an idea of what was to come) -but they did not want children in these times at first …
    And I was conceived in 1942 as a kind of souvenir for my mother – because my father was quite sure that he wouldn’t return from the war in Russia – he had been promoted to Captain because Hitler needed more officers.

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  7. Patti Abbott

    My dad landed at Normandy and was at the Battle of the Bulge but as staff rather than a combatant. Phil’s brother earned 3 Purple Hearts and a silver star in the Marines in Vietnam. He was 19.

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