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In the USA, today is the day we reflect, give remembrance and thanks to those who rushed to danger so we can live a free and peaceful life in a country where we can speak our minds and live our dreams. It is so much more than other places in the world.
We here on OT pick, tease, pester, and fight with each other, offer help and ask questions, mostly out of fun. I certainly do my share. None the less there is more that binds us, than is different. I hope we each can find a few moments to reflect and be thankful to all our service men and women especially the fallen.
:USA:USA:USA:USA:USA
Memorial Day was a response to the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War, in which some 620,000 soldiers on both sides died. The loss of life and its effect on communities throughout the country led to spontaneous commemorations of the dead:
• In 1864, women from Boalsburg, Pa., put flowers on the graves of their dead from the just-fought Battle of Gettysburg. The next year, a group of women decorated the graves of soldiers buried in a Vicksburg, Miss., cemetery.
• In April 1866, women from Columbus, Miss., laid flowers on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers. In the same month, in Carbondale, Ill., 219 Civil War veterans marched through town in memory of the fallen to Woodlawn Cemetery, where Union hero Maj. Gen. John A. Logan delivered the principal address. The ceremony gave Carbondale its claim to the first organized, community-wide Memorial Day observance.
• Waterloo, N.Y. began holding an annual community service on May 5, 1866. Although many towns claimed the title, it was Waterloo that won congressional recognition as the "birthplace of Memorial Day."
USA has fought many wars, most good and some less, but the men and the women in uniform have always done their duty and much more, for their Country and for the freedom, everywhere, every-time.
Thanks to all of them, from a guy who is free to thank exactly thanks to all of them.
Not my flag, not my right flying it, but today I want do it :USA :USA :USA !
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Political correctness is a mental disease that can put you in slavery. The only cure is to turn on the brain.
Not my blame if you do something that matches what I don't like.
Vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
may fly our flag, . . . in my opinion.
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A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
Well said WE