Memorial day...Never forget!

Thank you Ivy, why does it not surprise me that you were the first to make a Memorial Day post?

"Brothers you have fallen, now forever young...
The Line Still Holds..
Others have stepped into your place..
The Line Still Holds...
Brothers you would be proud of those that take your place...
The Line still Holds....
It is different now, not like it was for us, America loves it's warriors...
The Line Still Holds...
Brothers no day passes that I do not think of you...
The Line Still Holds...
We were twelve, we were soldiers and we were young...
The Line Still Holds....
We were twelve and now we are three
The Line Still Holds....
Frankie you wouldn't recognize the NYC you left in 67 they are building a new tower in lower Manhattan......
The Line Still Holds....

Yes, Thank You Ivy. You beat me to it.....

Always remember why we have the freedoms that we have!!! Someone gave something for it.

Wishing everyone a HAPPY and SAFE Memorial Day weekend!!!!

Semper Fidelis. POW-MIA...Bring them home or send us back

Thanks Ivy and everyone else who remembers what this weekend is all about. For those who have fallen in the Service of their country. My prayers go out each year to the families who are left behind, especially all of those who were near and dear to me; there were too many to count over the years.

No thanks to me....Thanks goes to those who gave their lives.

Amen Ivy! We owe all we have today to those who have served, and do serve, our country.
There is no greater sacrifice than those who have given their lives for our country.

Amen Ivy! We owe all we have today to those who have served, and do serve, our country.
There is no greater sacrifice than those who have given their lives for our country. Originally Posted by planojim

Very true!

Words alone can never be enough to honor them, only our actions can come close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6W_a2U-bIU

Oh my name is Penny Evans and my age is twenty-one
A young widow in the war that's being fought in Viet Nam
And I have two infant daughters and I do the best I can
Now they say the war is over, but I think it's just begun.

And I remember I was seventeen on the day I met young Bill
At his father's grand piano, we'd play good old 'Heart and Soul'
Well, I only knew the left hand part and he the right so well
He's the only boy I ever slept with and the only one I will.

It's first we had a baby girl and we had two good years
It was next the 1A notice came and we parted without tears
It was nine months from our last good night our second babe appears
So it's ten months and a telegram confirming all our fears.

And now every month I get a check from an Army bureaucrat
And it's every month I tear it up and I mail the damn thing back.
Do you think that makes it all right, do you think I'd fall for that ?
And you can keep your bloody money, it sure won't bring my Billy back.

I never cared for politics, and speeches I don't understand,
And likewise never took no charity from any living man
But tonight there's fifty thousand gone in that unhappy land
And fifty thousand 'Heart and Soul's' being played with just one hand.

And my name is Penny Evans and I've just gone twenty-one
A young widow in the war that's being fought in Viet Nam
And I have two infant daughters and I thank God I have no sons
Now they say the war is over, but I think it's just begun.


No answers here, but there is a shame to be shared by all when blood is shed senselessly.

To the Fallen

plus 1000000 on this thread and to the troops