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Monday, May 26. 2014

Decoration Day

We attended a family funeral on Saturday down in NJ. All of the vets' graves had flags. There were so many that it looked like a field of flags. The husband, my uncle-in-law, of the sweet gal who died was in the Normandy invasion, and in the war until it ended. By the end of the war, he was one of four surviving from his original platoon. Still in good shape. His war stories are remarkable - taking a castle!  I sat next to a cousin-in-law  USAF Col. at the funeral lunch. Vietnam Vet. All Irish, all warm and amusing - and all fairly sober.


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#1 Steve on 2014-05-26 06:26 (Reply)
We went to the National Cemetary in Tacoma. My boyfriends dad was a WWII vet (was at Pearl Harbor), Korea and a shooting instructor during Vietnam. The Cemetary was decorated nicely and I'm sure the turnout will be great today.

And the statue of this post reminds me of Walt's van. He is a Vietnam veteran and has a mural of that statue across one side of his van. It's nicely done and veterans especially like it. I'm grateful for the veterans that made it home and for the service of those that didn't.
#2 Teri Pittman on 2014-05-26 11:52 (Reply)
Memorial day is for dead soldiers. Not Veteran's. November 11th, is for veterans.
#3 rbm411 on 2014-05-26 17:02 (Reply)
Which is why you see so many of us vets, young and old, remembering those who did not survive.
#3.1 MikeNC on 2014-05-27 10:18 (Reply)

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