Monday, May 28, 2012

Memorial Day 2012



Remember.
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9 comments:

Gaffer said...

Thank you...we need to remember.

8:21 AM, May 28, 2012
Ed Foster said...

To absent comrades.

11:16 AM, May 28, 2012
Tango said...

That's one thing I miss about falling asleep on the couch in the 80s. You'd fall asleep when some Marine/Soldier/Squid/Airman without a face played taps over the air. Every night taps was played. Now we've got 24/7 stations that never sleep.

Take a rest, folks. Tam, thanks for posting Taps.

11:27 AM, May 28, 2012
Anonymous said...

Indeed!

12:57 PM, May 28, 2012
MEH said...

Two words... thank you.

4:07 PM, May 28, 2012
Ross said...

Thank you for posting this, Tam.

5:24 PM, May 28, 2012
RHT447 said...

In case you haven't seen this...

http://m1forvets.com/

A report from Camp Perry in 2009...

Sunday, August 9, 2009
M1s for Vets
The week is full of moments. Had one yesterday after the Garand and Vintage matches. As soon as we quit shooting the sun came out, the wind stopped blowing, (hmmmmm...maybe SHOOTING causes this...) and we gathered at Petrarca Range house for the awards. Gary Anderson, the Director of Civilian Marksmanship presided and gave away Garand, Springfield, Carbine and Vintage trophies. Justin Utley won the Vintage Match with one of the K31s we bought. 290. When Justin was shooting his 290 I was on the next firing point shooting a 289 for fourth place in the Springfield match and Rick Crawford was on the NEXT firing point shooting a 287....with a saved round (minus ten points). If Rick hadn't saved a round he would have easily set a new National Springfield record. 293 won the match.
At the end of the awards they brought out the M1s-for-Vets group. This group tries to match donated M1 Garands with disabled vets. About 12 of them came and shot this year at the matches. They got up front, two in wheelchairs, a couple with canes, one guy missing a hand. Young men in their 20s. They introduced them and the crowd stood up whooping and hollering and clapping and WOULDN'T sit down or stop. It rolled on and on and on. Nearly everyone had tears rolling down their cheeks, both the young men and the crowd.
These young men belong to the American gun culture. Think about Henry Gates and Officer Crowley. You think Gates, the highly paid Harvard professor KNOWS a soldier, or anyone with a soldier in the family? I doubt it. Officer Crowley on the other hand probably doesn't know anyone who wasn't a soldier, has a kid in the Marines or Army. I'll go a little farther: Gates knows victims. And he knows the rest of us are racists.
These young men who have all suffered as only soldiers suffer and lost things important to any human, THEY aren't victims. Or racists, I would bet.
These young men got it yesterday. Some of them looked embarrassed or confused, many were having trouble controlling their faces as the crowd poured out their love for them cheering and clapping. On and on and on. I think they got it.
There's a Camp Perry moment for you.
Posted by Robert Langham at 12:59 PM

Link to Blackfork:
http://blackforkblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/m1s-for-vets.html

6:44 PM, May 28, 2012
Borepatch said...

I just went to the twin cemeteries in Marietta - the Yankee and Rebel ones. There's quite a difference in the cemeteries, and how the graves are tended this weekend.

And no, it's not because the Marietta Daughters of the Confederacy are blockading the Veteran's Cemetery.

I think that for the first time, I really understand - in a feel it in my gut sense - what Reconstruction meant.

6:58 PM, May 28, 2012
Henry Mitchel said...

HappY memorial day. :)

12:53 AM, May 29, 2012

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