I spent the day with family, walking a battlefield and trying both to learn and to teach something about how we came to where we are.
It is a solemn day. I trust you all spent it well.
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raven
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Thanks. It was a quiet day spent with family, though I did go and plant a small flag on my fiends grave. He did not die in combat but did a few tours with the USMC in Vietnam. Never mentioned a word of it to me, even though I had known him for years. The only clue about his service were the dog tags he used as a zipper pull on his worn motorcycle jacket.
We visited a ceremony done at a local cemetery that does it quite nicely. Before the ceremony started, I took my family to the grave of one of the fallen Seals from the QRF of Operation Red Wing, which is just a few yards from where the ceremony was to be held, and showed them his picture, and read to them about his life- I wanted them to understand that it's not abstract- it's about real people, and real families that make great sacrifices.
There's little question that our schools don't teach about these things anymore, so it's even more imperative that we are conscientious about it.
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Thanks. It was a quiet day spent with family, though I did go and plant a small flag on my fiends grave. He did not die in combat but did a few tours with the USMC in Vietnam. Never mentioned a word of it to me, even though I had known him for years. The only clue about his service were the dog tags he used as a zipper pull on his worn motorcycle jacket.
I wish there was a way to edit these posts, the above should read "friend", obviously.
We visited a ceremony done at a local cemetery that does it quite nicely. Before the ceremony started, I took my family to the grave of one of the fallen Seals from the QRF of Operation Red Wing, which is just a few yards from where the ceremony was to be held, and showed them his picture, and read to them about his life- I wanted them to understand that it's not abstract- it's about real people, and real families that make great sacrifices.
There's little question that our schools don't teach about these things anymore, so it's even more imperative that we are conscientious about it.
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