MEMORIAL WEEK END

[dgrimm60]

HEY  ALL   MEMBERS  OF THE  U.S.A.

Monday  is  MEMORIAL DAY     this  week  end  a  lot of  people  have the  day  off-----so  if  you  have the  days  off  what    will you be  doing

camping---having  a  picnic---going  to  a  trip ----visiting  friends  or  family----or  just  staying  home

let  us  know  what  you  will be  doing?????

dgrimm60

[Naomi]

What's a day off???f

[dgrimm60]

NAOMI

A  day  off  is a  HOLIDAY  ------

dgrimm60

[Outta Here]

This is the first year in a long while  that my grandmother and I will not be going to visit the grave sites of our deceased relatives. She is no longer able to walk long distances and the drive would be too strenuous. We will spend the day at home, remembering those who served our country and gave the ultimate price.

[LifeHiscost]

Probably reading stories like this that make me realize how much the defenders of are country deserve the recognition, in more ways than one.

 

Though his squadron had been ordered not to attempt any rescues of U.S. pilots who had been shot down, Tom Hudner ignored that command and crash-landed into a mountain clearing to save his friend, Jesse Leroy Brown. (Courtesy Matt Hall and Valor Studios)

A war hero who was a stranger in his own land

By John Blake, CNN

Updated 6:10 PM ET, Fri May 27, 2016

ttp://www.cnn.com/2016/05/27/us/brown-hudner-devotion-korean-war/index.html

God is Love!~Jesus saves!

[Gregory Matthews]

The above is a very moving story!

For those who wish to know more about the few who have been awarded The Medal of Honor, I refer you to:

Peter Collier & NIck Del Calzo, MEDAL OF HONOR: PORTRAITS OF VALOR BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY, The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Artisan Press, 2003, 296 pages.

The above book contains the stories of the 139 people awarded the Medal of Honor and were alive at time it was published, to include Doss.

It should be noted that there is another story that is unfolding today in the integration of females into the U.S. military.  For more on this, I recommend:
 

Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, A FEW GOOD WOMEN--AMERICA'S MILITARY WOMEN FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.  Koff/Random House, 2010, 476 pages.

It should be noted that it does not deal with women in the U.S. military prior to WWI.

It is  interest that at a time when the U.S. military need the contribution that women made, it denied them the right to be considered a regular part of the military.  They served in what was called The Army/Navy Nurse Corps and the Women's Army Corps.  In even earlier times they were denied even that small recognition.

As I think of those who decry the entry of women into the U.S. military that is currently going on, to include those who post here in CA I am reminded that they typically lack knowledge of the contribution that women have made throughout the many years of the life of the United States military.  As I read of their concerns that the women will not be able to carry out their responsibilities and will place males in danger due to their inability to protect them I am reminded of their actual lack of knowledge of the facts.

E.G.  June 23, 2005, Falluja, Iraq;  Marine Cpl Sally J Saalman and 19 other Marine females had finished a day of working in 120 degree heat when their convoy was hit by an explosion caused by a car that carried an explosive device.  Their conduct and heroism was clearly equal to that of the males.

Few know that when the U.S. entered WWI (April 6, 1917) there were some 2,000 enlisted females serving in the U.S. Navy.   By 1918, that number had increased to 11,000.

 

Well, I will get off my soap box, for a bit.  But, the story of the many women who actually served in the U.S. military is little known.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[phkrause]

Will be staying home. With company coming over!

And here's a nice video of Steven Curtis Chapman singing "We Remember" for Veterans

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=1BM0C1NU

[dgrimm60]

HEY  ALL

HAPPY  MEMORIAL  DAY-----if  you  have the  day  off  i  hope you  enjoy  the time  off

but  let  us  all  remember  the  men and  women  that  died  so we  could  have freedoms

dgrimm60