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Just wanted to wish everyone and safe & happy Memorial day. Let's try to not forget that it's not about the BBQ's but it's about remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy the freedoms we have today.

Amen to that.
"I'd gladly stand up, next to you
and defend her still this day.
There ain't no doubt
I love this land.
GOD BLESS THE U.S.A."

My nurse's 26 year old daughter heading out to Afghanistan today on her daughter's first birthday--God Bless the troops!!!!

Add me to that list. Jimmie, pass on my prayers and my thanks.

On Memorial Day I was thinking of my paternal grandfather who passed on about 10 years ago, but was a plumber by trade and in WWll was over seas for 33 months, shipped to Liverpool, England then onto North Africa, Sicily, up the boot of Italy on eventually into France. He worked as an engineer in the Army (was a corporal T) and kept the railroad engines running to feed the supply lines to the front as they advanced. He kept a canteen and engraved all of the places he went and growing up would tell us (myself and 2 brothers) stories of the war he never even discussed with my dad, and likely anyone else.
I recall a memorable story he told when I was in early high school, and I think in his own way was trying to teach us all a deeper meaning to life. But he had gotten liquored up somewhere in France and got into a bar fight, and the next day came to the realization that in addition to a terrible hangover, was missing his two front teeth. And learned after the fact, the guy he decided to pick a fight with was a semi pro boxer. He said on that day he came to the realization that he was a better lover than a fighter.
But he impressed on us often time loving is a lot less painful than fighting.