Have a Great Memorial Day Weekend

[Elgato69]

Just wanted to take time and say a special Thank You to all who have served this great country of ours and also to those whose families have given the ultimate sacrifice. In spite of all the problems facing our country today, this is still the best place on earth to be in. I am proud to be an American.

[KlassyKelliAnn]

I feel the same way!

KKA

[Guest083013]

and thinking back to those almost thirty years of never having to stop and think about "what to wear today" every morning ==> it was indeed a great Way Of Life and something I shall never forget!!

My sincerest best wishes to everyone involved.

[Guest083013]

got the lawns done today...
BBQ with family at our place tomorrow...

[Sonya Playmate]

Have a great memorial day everyone

[SABLKMALE]

As a disabled veteran I want to say thank you to all of you and continue to support our troops.

[sweetrobin]

On this day I remember all who have fought and served for OUR country.. Thank you doesn't seem like enough....

[WetVelvetSAT]

Hugs and Kisses to those that have family members overseas right now!




P.S. dennisrn....You can bring me some BBQ,...aheheheh ...I'm just watching TV today...but would love to be at the Lake...

Sincerely,
Wet

[oldtiger]

This day bums me out, I lost a close family member not too long ago, and when this day comes, all I can do is think about her.

[tim_29m]

I agree with Dennisrn, I loved the fact that I didn't have to worry about what to wear for 20+ years. I actually find that I do that now in my job as well...buy 5 pairs of pants and 5 shirts all the same style so I can wear to work! :-) Remember those Garanimals for kids? I wish they had the adult version of that! Tiger goes with tiger, bear with bear....LOL!

Seriously though...thanks to all those serving, past and present. It was an honor to serve and I wish my body didn't quit on me before I was actually ready to retire!

[darter]

WHAT IS A VET? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.
What is a vet?
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came back another. Or didn't come back AT ALL.
He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket palsied now and aggravatingly slow who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU."

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC