“RIP my brothers and sisters, you are not forgotten.”
Amen to that !
Boomer, many thanks for posting…
Thank you Boomer.
Thank you
Thank you Boomer.
US Army A Co. 3rd Bat. 60th Inf 9th INF DIV
Mobile Riverine Force
Mekong Delta, RVN 1967
…and here in UK -
Remembered -
Lt Thomas J Foley - 23 February 1945 - Wall of Remembrance - co-pilot of B-24 ‘Chris’Craft’ ditched in the North Sea.
Cpl John D Foley Jnr - 3 July 1944 - Plot C, Row O, Grave #58.
Bless.
tac
Thanks Boomer. I wish the idiot that visit our parks felt the same. To them its just an excuse to have a day off and cause problems rather then seeing what the Holiday is really about. Absolutely no respect. Cant you tell I had a long weekend in the parks.
Thanks Boomer.
My wife took pictures of this weekend. Sunday Township Veterans Ceremony. Monday Wreath Ceremony at VFW. I was mentally exhausted.
Lou Luczu
US Army 1969-1975
RVN 1971-1972
PS Looking back, I realized my first station in Vietnam was near Da Lat, ten miles from the only recorded snowfall in Country!
Very thought provoking and moving post, Boomer. Thanks very much for sharing it with us.
Ed
Ed Headington said:
Very thought provoking and moving post, Boomer. Thanks very much for sharing it with us.
Ed
Same here!
(psst. Boomer. That’s not an eagle.)
There are many memorials all over the UK: most villages and towns have one. But in recent years a National Memorial, in the form of arboretum, has been established in the English Midlands.
This vast area incorporates not just memoria to those that served in the armed forces but to the many civilian organizations that were just as much in ‘the front line’.
Whilst this will appear to be a solely British place it should be remembered that men and women from many other countries served alongside or in the UK forces.
The immense parts played by Canadian and American men and women who joined our armed and civilian forces is well remembered.
Most impressive!! Paul
Boomer,
Thank you for a awesome post. My eyes are blurred.
Noel Crawford
Commanding Officer 563rd Med Clr Company Chu Lai RVN 67/68
Pharmacy Consultant to 44th Med Brgd Surgeon 67/68
FYI, A Large portion of the men on the “Baatan Death March” were from New Mexico. I have had the honor to have met several Survivors (If you can call them that), both had a far away look when talking about the time.
(from Wikipedia)
The Bataan Death March had a large impact on the state of New Mexico.[26] Eighteen hundred New Mexico soldiers from the 200th/515th Coast Artillery of the National Guard were deployed to the Philippines in World War II. Only half these soldiers survived, and within a few years after the war almost one half more had died.[27] The New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum is located in the Armory where the soldiers of the 200th and 515th were processed before their deployment to the Philippines in 1941.[28] Every year, in early spring, a rigorous 26.2-mile march/run is conducted at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in honor of the service members who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II.[29][30] As of May 2012 there were 60 survivors, 31 of whom reside in New Mexico. Many of these survivors were teens at the time and had lied about their ages to gain entry into the military.
Dave Taylor
US Army RA
1969-1978
I just learned that my Great Uncle, my Grandfathers brother, Howard Featherkile, fought in the Spanish American War. I’ll have to find out who with and where.