The True Meaning Of Memorial Day

[One2Snoop]

The True Meaning of Memorial Day

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wK0T4pVHP28&feature=related

Restore The Traditional Day Of Observance For Memorial Day

Memorial Day used to be a solemn day of mourning, a sacred day of remembrance to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. Businesses closed for the day. Towns held parades honoring the fallen, the parade routes often times ending at a local cemetery, where Memorial Day speeches were given and prayers offered up. People took the time that day to clean and decorate with flowers and flags the graves of those the fell in service to their country.

"Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic." -- General Logan - May 5, 1868

We need to remember with sincere respect those who paid the price for our freedoms; we need to keep in sacred remembrance those who died serving their country. We need to never let them be forgotten. However, over the years the original meaning and spirit of Memorial Day has faded from the public consciousness.

"If it is considered a holiday, why is it so? I consider it to be a national day of mourning. This is how we observe this day in our home. Because of what that day represents the rest of the days of the year are our holidays." -- F L Lloyd West Chester, Pa USA - February 26, 2000

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http://www.usmemorialday.org/act.html

[FDInLaw]

Thank you for posting this reminder!

[One2Snoop]

Bump

[lorettalockhorn]

In Flanders Fields

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/flanders.htm

Pray for peace

[One2Snoop]

Paying respects at Arlington's Section 60

Highlights -
More than 290,000 veterans are buried at Arlington National Cemetery

Section 60 is final resting place for troops killed most recently in Iraq, Afghanistan

Particularly touching are the mementos left at some of the graves

"You are my hero, Daddy. ... I miss you," reads one handmade card

Video
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/25/sli...day/index.html