SASSY'S MEMORIAL
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If you want to hear "TAPS" click where there is a bugle!
Memorial Day, a day when young and old pay respect to those who gave of themselves unselfishly to fight for the freedom we all so love. Please......stop today.......and pay respect. Salute the flag when passing in a parade...... remember the real reason we celebrate memorial day.......... pay tribute to those who did not make it back to United States, and those who did, but still suffer today. Memorial Day, perhaps more than any other holiday, was born of human necessity. Deep inside all of us lies a fundamental desire to make sense of life and our place in it and the world. What we have been given, what we will do with it and what we will pass to the next generation is all part of an unfolding history, a continuum that links one soul to another. Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. This is a day that we remember our fallen heroes and those who have given their lives in sacrifice for freedom. There are several stories as to it's actual beginnings, with many cities, including Boalsburg and Waterloo both laying claims to being the birthplace of Memorial Day, with Waterloo being Officially declared as the birthplace by President Lydon Johnson in May 1966. God bless you all and in your prayers tonight, please say a prayer for the Prisoners of War, our men whom have never returned. May they never be forgotten. Have a safe and healthy holiday weekend. Please.....do not drink and drive.
Do not stand at my grave
and weep. And we must not allow them to die, we must remember............they shall not have gone in vain.
The Mother of a Soldier The mother of a soldier --hats off to her, I say! The mother of a soldier who has gone to face the fray; She gave him to her country with a blessing on his head--- She found his name this morning in the long list of the dead: "Killed -- Sergeant Thomas Watkins, while leading on the rest, A Bible in his pocket and a portrait on his breast!" The mother of a soldier -- she gave him to her land; She saw him on the transport as he waved his sun-browned hand; She kissed him through the teardrops and she told him to be brave; Her prayers went night and morning with her boy upon the wave. The mother of a soldier -- her comfort and her joy, She gave her dearest treasure when she gave her only boy; She saw the banners waving, she heard the people cheer; She clasped her hands and bravely looked away to hide a tear. The mother of a soldier --ah! cheer the hero deed, And cheer the brave who battle 'neath the banner of their creed; But don't forget the mothers, through all the lonely years That fight the bravest battles on the sunless field of tears. Nay, don't forget the mothers -- the
mothers of our men, The mother of a soldier -- hats off to
her, I say! Author----Folger McKinsey
Memorial Day Flag
Etiquette
The bugle call Taps had its origins on a battlefield of the Civil War. After the Union suffered a large number of casualties in a battle near Richmond, Virginia. Brigade Commander Colonel Daniel Butterfield reflected with sadness upon the men he had lost. Unable to compose music, he hummed a melody which his aide wrote down in musical notation. The company bugler played it that night to honor their dead comrades. It was officially recognized by the United States Army in 1874. Accompanied by the drumbeat, Muffled Ruffles, it is the highest honor given to those who have died in service to our country. "Moment of Remembrance" Goal To have all Americans pause simultaneously for one minute of remembrance for those who have made the greatest sacrifice. Americans everywhere are asked to join in reclaiming this national holiday as the noble and sacred event it was meant to be. On May 29, 2000, pause at 3:00 p.m. local time for a minute of respectful silence for those who have died in the service of our nation. During that minute, television and radio stations throughout America will air simultaneously a 60-second spot which includes ``Taps". Turn on your radio or television to join your fellow Americans in putting Memorial back in Memorial Day. .
Thanks to the men and women who have and still do make our country the land of the free.
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS - THE IMPORTANT
PART OF THIS SPEECH THAT MADE HISTORY Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobley advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we..here..highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . . for the people. . . shall not perish from this earth.
They survived the Stock Market Crash, The Great Depression, the horrors of World War II and went on to build the world we live in today. Our parents, our grandparents. THIS IS A QUOTE FROM TOM BROKAW'S "THE GREAT
GENERATION" BOOK
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