Read this or I will kill you

[khashka]

I know this is late. But what did you do on Memorial Day? Did you honour our dead vets, celebrate the ones who survived? Did you?

I'm sitting here looking at the bracelet I always wear. It was my Mom's and I took it. It's a name bracelet that you could get back during the VN war with a soldier's name on it. I don't know this man, I'll never get a chance to, cuz he's dead, can't even really make out his name anymore it's so worn. Doesn't matter - if I'm the only person who tries to remember him..... one is enough.

Anyway what I really wanted to say was that there a lot of vets on DU. And a lot of people who have lost loved ones or fear losing them in military actions. I'm so anti-military its getting ridiculous. But if I can find time , you can. Just a moment of your time. If not today then tomorrow or next week or whenever. OK?

Khash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Well, my dear Khash.....

What did I do today, Memorial Day?

Well, I tabled for a candidate who is against the war....

I put up my American flag....

I thought about my brother, who fought in (and came home from) Vietnam...

I hope I did enough......

You did.

:patriot:

[Skittles]

1. I am a GI brat and USAF veteran

I don't have to "remember" them on Memorial Day because I never forget them. Tomorrow I'll be sending yet another package to Iraq, to soldiers I do not know

[khashka]

4. Can I say "thank you" ?

It will be a cold day in hell before I ever join the military.
It will also be a cold day in hell before I disrespect our people who put their lives on line for the rest of us. Thank you for doing that. I don't know if you ever saw combat, but it doesn't matter.... You were there and willing.

I dated a man who was a Vietnam vet and paralized from the chest down. I dated a girl who was in the Army and ended up in Iraq . And I haven't heard from her and that scares me. I have a friend who is an Arabic translator - I'm not allowed to speak to him.Very hush hush high level shit. So this a personal issue for me.

People sacrice a lot and it's rarely noticed. Time to take notice and respect it.


But just wait til November... Armistice Day... then I'll really be pissed off.

Khash.

[Skittles]

9. my entire sense of stability was sacrificed

imagine moving thirteen times before you even started high school

[JVS]

2. I slept

[JohnKleeb]

3. Hard not to remember them

Quite a few of the people I graduated with high school are overseas and I had many in my family who served too.

[RevCheesehead]

5. Today I put out the flag.

Not an easy job - I have to balance it on the ornamental post (it ain't my house, so I can't put up anything on the building).

Yesterday, we had a ceremony in the church cemetery after worship, with the veterans and full military honors. :patriot:

[Ava]

6. today i did my small part in ending the war

i created another animation hoping that it may convince one more person to demand an end to this war.

http://www.peacetakescourage.com/neverforget.html

[Duer 157099]

7. I also still have my POW/MIA bracelet from the VN war

I wore it every day until the day I saw that soldier's name in the paper, saying that he had come home.

The name was John McCain III

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I taught my 7 year old that Memorial Day is more than a day off school.

We reviewed his history lesson on Pearl Harbor, and talked a good deal about WWII, because Mr GoG was watching Band of Brothers most of the day. I explained to my son that it's especially important to remember that we owe everything we have to the men and women who were and are prepared to die to protect our nation. I told him that part of the reason I'm so opposed to our presence in Iraq is that the idiot in the WH is abusing his power by using the military to make himself and his friends even wealthier.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. I marched in the local Memorial Day parade.

I was in the marching band.

It was the MOST BORING thing I've done all spring, ending in a 1/2-hr ceremony at the veterans' center, and there were plenty of (obviously Christian) prayers and stories and speeches....But it meant something to those guys, so all's well, I suppose, even if it drove me personally batshit crazy. (It was like 85 degrees out there! :D)