Mike Arnold Webboard User Reg: 07-09-2004
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A day for parades, fly overs, fireworks, picnics, and so on.
A day to remember the price of wars. In my life WW II, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, and other little incursions around the world.
I remember the VN draft anxieties. We, vets attending college on the GI Bill, watching the anxiety of those in college who were worried about their number in the annual draft lottery.
And Walter Cronkite signing off the weekly news on Friday nights with the tally of GIs killed in southeast Asia that week. In 1968, when I got out in August, after 3 years and 11 months, the average was about 300 dead a week.
How quickly we forget, and how few serve.
It seems to me that Memorial Day shouldn't be celebrated. It maybe should be a day of quiet reflection. Thinking of, and wondering what those who died and have been wounded might have accomplished but for their sacrifice. Thinking of the losses, the selflessness, bravery...
Standing to for Taps will be the hardest moments of emotion for me, and every time I hear the mournful notes.
So many flags.
Mike A.
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A day for parades, fly overs, fireworks, picnics, and so on.
A day to remember the price of wars. In my life WW II, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, and other little incursions around the world.
I remember the VN draft anxieties. We, vets attending college on the GI Bill, watching the anxiety of those in college who were worried about their number in the annual draft lottery.
And Walter Cronkite signing off the weekly news on Friday nights with the tally of GIs killed in southeast Asia that week. In 1968, when I got out in August, after 3 years and 11 months, the average was about 300 dead a week.
How quickly we forget, and how few serve.
It seems to me that Memorial Day shouldn't be celebrated. It maybe should be a day of quiet reflection. Thinking of, and wondering what those who died and have been wounded might have accomplished but for their sacrifice. Thinking of the losses, the selflessness, bravery...
Standing to for Taps will be the hardest moments of emotion for me, and every time I hear the mournful notes.
My youngest sister's step son was killed in a training accident (USMC)three yrs ago and they are dedicating part of a highway for him tomorrow in Highland Ill.
He was 6 wks away from his discharge after 6yrs in the Marines.
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