BeatTheTunaUp
Fux with the best, Die like the rest
Hope everyone is enjoying family and remembering their dad's and papa's.
Happy Memorial Day
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Big Green
In Christ Alone
Yanky 72
Sumo 41
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With all due respect - "Happy" is NOT a well-chosen word, IMO.
toddnjoyce
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Major Gregory STONE
SSgt Jacob FRAZIER
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MSgt Steven AUCHMAN
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Major David Gray
Mike Spann
Major Gregory STONE
SSgt Jacob FRAZIER
A1C Ray LOSANO
MSgt Steven AUCHMAN
SrA Bradley SMITH
Major David Gray
Mike Spann
BeatTheTunaUp
Fux with the best, Die like the rest
We celebrate life and things achieved. If you're not happy remembering people, then that's on you.
Big Green
In Christ Alone
I disagree. While on active duty most of us said if we died, to celebrate us and be happy on this day. Don’t forget us, be somber when appropriate, but enjoy what we fought for and celebrate the lives and freedoms we have.
I remember those I served with that gave the ultimate sacrifice with honor and respect. I celebrate their life, but grieve their loss.
To each their own, I guess - but I can't be happy about the loss of a comrade in arms.
Nothing happy about this.
Memorial Day is not for celebrating life. If you think it is, then you tell the families of the soldiers who gave their
life for us how happy you are that they are not here anymore.
And. if you ever go to the WALL be sure and tell all of the soldiers listed there how happy you are that their
life for you.
life for you.
Amen, brother.
baboon
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My wife worked for some Vietnamese. & they pointed out in Houston you have Pro American & Pro Communist Vietnamese parts of town.
I seen it myself with the huge bronze USGI soldier out in Alien. Is that a common practice? Are the communist immigrants a thread? Do they support Brandon? Do you think this is common amongst all immigrants?
I grew up in Orange County, CA, and back then, there was no pro-communist Vietnamese community. Quite the opposite.
Lots of family on my moms side was killed by commies. Many more took to the sea as “boat people” to escape the atrocities.
I’ve posted this before, the stories of what some of these people endured (if they survived) to find freedom would make you weep.
It must be the subsequent generations who support communism, but honestly that’s such a foreign concept that I can’t even grasp it.
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Yes, I agree that we have freedom of speech and you are free to wish someone a "happy" memorial day.
It just kinda goes against the whole idea of Memorial Day. For crying out loud, it is in the name of the holiday.
We remember those who did not come home. Nothing happy about people sacrificing their life for our country.
But that is just my personal take on that. Those who feel that "happy" goes well with a sad day filled with deaths of countless soldiers are free to go to a military cemetery on Memorial Day and wish a "happy" day to the widows and fatherless children crying over headstones.
No, I take that back. It would not be fair to the families. But if you feel happy about people dying for your freedoms, try to think about your life choices.
It just kinda goes against the whole idea of Memorial Day. For crying out loud, it is in the name of the holiday.
We remember those who did not come home. Nothing happy about people sacrificing their life for our country.
But that is just my personal take on that. Those who feel that "happy" goes well with a sad day filled with deaths of countless soldiers are free to go to a military cemetery on Memorial Day and wish a "happy" day to the widows and fatherless children crying over headstones.
No, I take that back. It would not be fair to the families. But if you feel happy about people dying for your freedoms, try to think about your life choices.
