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Title: Memorial Day
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Published: May 25, 2025
Author: LZ Memories BBS
Post Date: 2025-05-25 21:48:49 by Luke The Spook
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Memorial Day is their day, isn't it? It is supposed to be the day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank the more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since the Revolutionary War. Or is it the day the beach resorts kick into high gear for the summer season, the day the strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, the day the off-season rates end and the weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a one hour wait. Or is is one of the biggest shopping center sales days of the year, a day when hunting for a parking space is the prime sport for the holiday stay-at-homers? Or is it the weekend when more people will kill themselves on the highways than any other weekend and Highway Patrol troopers work overtime picking up the pieces? I think the men and women who died for us would understand what we do with their day. I hope they would, because if they wouldn't, if they would have insisted that it be a somber, respectful day of remembrance, then we have blown it and dishonored their sacrifice. I knew some of those who died, and the guys I knew would have understood. They liked a sunny beach and a cold beer and a hot babe in a black bikini, too. They would have enjoyed packing the kids, the inflatable rafts, the coolers, and the suntan lotion in the car and heading for the lake. They would have enjoyed staying at home and cutting the grass and getting together with some friends and cooking some steaks on the grill, too. But they didn't get the chance. They blew up in the Marine Barracks in Beirut and died in the oily waters of the Persian Gulf. They caught theirs at the airstrip in Grenada in the little war everyone laughed at. They bought the farm in the I Drang Valley and on Heartbreak Ridge, Phu Bai and at Hue. They froze at the Chosin Reservoir and were shot at the Pusan Perimeter. They drowned in the surf at Omaha Beach or fell in the fetid jungles of Guadalcanal. They were at the Soame and at San Juan Hill and at Gettysburg and at Cerro Gordo and at Valley Forge. They couldn't be here with us this weekend, but I think they would understand that we don't spend the day in tears and heart-wrenching memorials. They wouldn't want that. Grief is not why they died. They died so we could go fishing. They died so another father could hold his laughing little girl over the waves. They died so another father could toss a baseball to his son in their backyard while the charcoal is getting white. They died so another buddy could drink a beer on his day off. They died so a family could get in the station wagon and go shopping and maybe get some ice cream on the way home. They won't mind that we have chosen their day to have our first big outdoor party of the year. But they wouldn't mind, either, if we took just a second and thought about them. Some will think of them formally, of course. Wreaths will be laid in small, sparsely attended ceremonies in military cemeteries and at monuments at state capitols and in small town's squares. Flags will fly over the graves, patriotic words will be spoken and a few people there will probably feel a little anger that no more people showed up. They'll think no one else remembers. But we do remember. We remember Jimmy and Matthew and Mark and the guys who died. We remember the deal we made: If we buy it, we said, drink a beer for me. I'll do it for you, guys. I'll drink that beer for you today, and I'll sit on that beach for you, and I'll check out the girls for you and, just briefly, I'll think of you. I won't let your memory spoil the trip but you'll be on that sunny beach with me today. I will not mourn your deaths this Memorial Day, my Brothers. Rather, I'll celebrate the life you gave me. This Bud's for you, brother! ... For he today, that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother. Origin: LZ Memories BBS - "Always Green Smoke!" (19:100/105) For Boogie Man, Jimmy, Matthew, Boonie Rat, and Mark. Luke The Spook, 53rd ASA,SOCOM, 8th RRU, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
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#2. To: Luke The Spook, Dr. Kimmy, 4um (#0)
Kim's at Hospital City standing by... Memorial Day Message Each Memorial Day I am amazed at how many people confuse it with Veterans Day or simply have no idea what Memorial Day is about. I used to say to people “Happy Memorial Day” but it is not a happy day, it is a solemn day. Memorial Day is the day that we remember, and morn, and appreciate those members of the American Military who have been killed in combat defending our nation and our freeedom over our history. A few years back I started putting together this chart showing the numbers of American soldiers killed in action defending our freedom from the Revolutionary War until present day. By my count, one million, three hundred and twenty thousand, two hundred and fourty one soldiers, sailors, and airmen, have been killed in action since the Revolutionary war. That doesn't include thousands, if not tens of thousands, of members of the military who died training for battle or in accidents not directly related to battle. People really react strongly when I give out that large number which I update each year. I find that updating the list each Memorial Day focuses my attention on the fact that the fight for freedom never ends and has very serious consequences. Freedom is not free. It must be defended EVERY DAY by EVERY ONE OF US. Too often American’s forget that. Memorial Day is the day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to defend Freedom. Talk about those relatives and friends you know who gave the ultimate sacrice for our nation. Say their names! Talk about their lives and how much of their lives they did not get to live so that we could live our lives in freedom and prosperity. Be sure to tell the children in your circle. Show them a picture. Take them to the cemetary today. Make the effort this Memorial Day to honor these true heros and patriots as we should. For Liberty, Tom Zawistowski
This is what they want to do to you....You are just Useless idiots to them I'm sure the colleges don't tell ya that Part.....RIP WARRIORS YOU are NOT FORGOTTEN
p.s. You might reserve your ire for those who put you in that position.
I put myself in that position voluntarily. They were warned that attack was going to happen shortly beforehand, but a certain Colonel refused to prepare for it. I was told he pounded his desk screaming, "I'M NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO SOME TWENTY-SOMETHING YEAR OLD PUNK ABOUT MY JOB!" That punk was me and my team. Me, Pam, Danny and a few other guys. As far as my ire goes, don't worry, I've got plenty left. If/when Kimmy dies from being forced to take clot-shots, I wouldn't want to be a certain doctor/tyrant's shoes. I won't have anything left to live for. The quote "From hell's heart I stab at thee" is a famous line from Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick. It is spoken by Captain Ahab as he confronts the white whale Moby Dick, expressing his unwavering determination to destroy the whale even in the face of death. The phrase is often interpreted as Ahab's descent into obsession and his willingness to embrace his own destruction in order to avenge his loss. "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." The literary lecture is over. There will be a quiz Wednesday.
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by: Tom Zawistowski 2020-05-24 Source: We the People Convention 
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We the People Convention 
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For all you people who Sympathizes with the Palestinians in the the WEST BANK...
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#9. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, 4um (#5)
p.s. You might reserve your ire for those who put you in that position.
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