For those we've lost and those that served

[Ned Buckshot]

Remember, ALWAYS!

Thank a vet for your freedom everyday.

Ned

[KidTerico]

NED nice post . THANK YOU. KT

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

          Put the Flag out this morning

[GunClick Rick]

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[amin ledbetter]

Thanks Ned!

God Bless our Men and Women in uniform, and all those who have sacrificed for our freedoms!

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Thanks for your posts, pards. It's good to honor those who served and paid the price.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

When I see flags and crosses, I think of Verdun and what I saw.

We were stationed near Verdun when we were stationed in Toul-Rosieres AFB in France.

Near Verdun (one of the longest and bloodiest battles of WWI), two things strike me as if it was yesterday and not 1959 ...

The first .... it had been raining for over three weeks. A drenched and cold squad sat in their trench, bayonets fixed, ready to 'go over the top'. Suddenly their trench, built along the side of a hill, just gave way and closed up.  The French felt that they could do no more fitting grave foir the squad .... so they left them there.

I remember as a kid of nine or ten, walking along that path, looking at those rusting bayonets and knowing that below each one was a soldier, once tired, cold and hungry, terrified at the thought of climbing out of those trenches ... now beyond worry of mortal things.

To me, that will always be what Memorial Day and Veteran's Day is all about ....


And God bless them everyone