Memorial Day

Paul very well said, I totally agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I salute all of our Veterans

Alex

Agreed. God Bless our military

I agree and God Bless!!!

GOD BLESS OUR VETS & ALL ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY SERVICES !

Same here! Lets hope they get this VA thing fixed! Our Military deserve only the best care that we can give them!

Something we should all remember on this Memorial Day. Canadian Lt. Col John McCrae's poem written on the battlefield during World War I. "The War to end all Wars".

          In Flanders Fields     

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks still bravely singing,fly

scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago

we lived,felt dawn,saw sunset glow,

loved and were loved,and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow,

In Flanders fields.

US Navy '49-'53 

Korea '51-'52

Thank you for starting this outstanding topic thread, Paul.

As all Americans, and as so many people around the world too, we remember the ultimate sacrifice made by these Americans for us.

Hartfelt thanks to all the veterans out there and to all my fellow veterans on the 0 Gauge Forum.

U.S.N.

Nam66

Memorial Day always gets me down, feeling sad. My Dad served in the navy during ww2 as did some of my uncles. I  served during the tail end of Vietnam. Most of them are gone now but not forgotten. God bless our armed forces men and women.

Memorial Day is a special day set aside each year to honor those who gave their life defending our freedom as a nation.

All right all right. This is the second thread that's been started about Memorial Day on this O gauge model train forum.

I think it's important to remember that Memorial Day (the last Monday in May) is for honoring our military personnel who died serving on active duty. And yes, "Happy Memorial Day" is not appropriate for this particular holiday.

Veteran's Day (November 11th) is for honoring all military veterans and active duty personnel.

My father, a WW II veteran who is still with us, explained this to me when I was in high school.

Thank you,

Vern H. Liljenquist

Veteran, U.S. Navy

Great thread. Let us not forget the freedom we all enjoy and the cost in lives.

Thanks too those who served and paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country I am able to play and enjoy my train's. And to those and their families that paid the ultimate sacrifice for our county,I can never thank you enough.God bless y'all

Easy to forget all that "freedom" we have, here in the abundance of the USA.   Always thankful that we've always had good people willing to pay for it!

Decoration Day, that's what my parents called it.

Decoration Day is the former name of the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. Memorial Day began as Decoration Day in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.  It was a tradition initiated by General John A Logan, leader of an organization for Northern Civil War veterans.

Starting there, it eventually then encompassed all Civil War Vets North and South, and then war after war Americans that lost their lives were honored.

Most if not all of us have had members of our families, friends, and those that have passed through our lives, serve or make the supreme sacrifice dedicated to the ideals of the founding of our country.   

I served, but am always humbled and in awe by the many that have had to give their all.

God Bless them. 

Anyone watch the PBS National Memorial Day Concert?  Some real heroes and some incredible stories.

Memorial Day[Decoration Day] first honored the Civil War military dead in Waterloo, New York.