Posted: 5/21/2014 10:09:47 AM EDT
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With Memorial Day coming up, I wanted to see if anyone else plans to make an effort to visit a local cemetaries and acknowledge our fallen bretheren. I feel like a majority of my friends and acquaintences get Veterans Day and Memorial Day mixed up, and instead think it's "thank a Vet day". After losing a couple of the guys I served with and some friends from high school, Memorial Day's been hitting home harder each year. I want to make sure everybody I know is well aware of exactly what they SHOULD be doing on the 26th before they go off looking for sales and barbecue. Anyone else feel the same? Anyone taking family to honor our fallen?
I know when I was in DC, as a unit we would go and plant flags in assigned sections of Arlington, and wanted to see if anyone might know of similar efforts here in central Texas, like the Austin or Killeen areas? I know there's a Veterans Cemetary in Killeen and was thinking that would be my best bet, but I also kind of want to see if there are less known cemetaries that would need flags? In addition, maybe share some of you brothers or sisters you've lost, whether overseas or stateside. Here are a few friends and guys I served with that are missed: Cpl. Jessie de Leon LCpl. David Jeon (Still haven't seen a public obituary, he was a firefighter in Georgia. Most we had was through Facebook, he's mentioned here Cpl. Derek Wyatt Was killed just before they were expecting their first kid. We stood post together, not really buddy-buddy, but when I visited him in Arlington with my very pregnant wife it hit me like a ton of bricks. Really cool guy. Cpl. Don Marler PFC Sean Campbell |
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I'm thankful to have only lost one buddy and not more.
Went to VMI with SPC Bill McMillan who left school and enlisted. He was killed a couple of months after he would have graduated. Knowing Bill, he'd have preferred to be honored by drunken debauchery over sober solemnity, but your message still stands; don't forget the price that's been paid by veterans who are no longer around to receive thanks. |
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I'll decorate it. My buddy is nearby. I decorate his every year. SSG Foster Harrington, USMC Section 25 162A Quoted:
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SSG Juan Solorio Site 264A, Dallas National Cemetery I'll decorate it. My buddy is nearby. I decorate his every year. SSG Foster Harrington, USMC Section 25 162A His widow and kids and huge family take care of it. I simply leave a flag or an old picture of us. This year I have something extra special. A flag or other simple momento is fine. |
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His widow and kids and huge family take care of it. I simply leave a flag or an old picture of us. This year I have something extra special. A flag or other simple momento is fine. Quoted:
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SSG Juan Solorio Site 264A, Dallas National Cemetery I'll decorate it. My buddy is nearby. I decorate his every year. SSG Foster Harrington, USMC Section 25 162A His widow and kids and huge family take care of it. I simply leave a flag or an old picture of us. This year I have something extra special. A flag or other simple momento is fine. Noted. I'll do a little flag. |