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I find memorial day to be challenging each year. This year seems to be more challenging than last year. Floods of memories come and go during the year; but, as Memorial Day draws near the faces of fallen comrades-in-arms come to mind. I pray that God will comfort each of us as we remember the fallen and help us to honor their memory and their service.
I hope and pray this nation never truly forgets what it takes to keep us free from tyranny.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
I posted pictures of Winburn Drew Harrington; Reggie Johnson; my paternal grandfather John Ford; and George Brewster.
I hope and pray this nation never truly forgets what it takes to keep us free from tyranny.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
I posted pictures of Winburn Drew Harrington; Reggie Johnson; my paternal grandfather John Ford; and George Brewster.
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Concierto Dia del Veterano 2010. Con la participacion de los coros UPR Ponce, Recinto Ciencias Medicas, Inter San German y Municipal de Ponce.
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Yes because over the years is meaning has really come into focus. As a kid it was all about opening the house on Cape Cod and reuniting with summer friends after the long winter. I never really understood the cookouts with all my dads friends from the Navy, just that they were really fun times. Then I spent 25 years in the USAF and attended way too many memorial services for friends I had been mission planning with one day and mourning the next. Perhaps it's age, but now I find myself thinking about the past way more on Memorial Day than planning to go out and have fun.
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GEN Wayne Downing was an inspiration to those who knew him. He led the way as rangers usually do on may areas from being the man who formed the 75th Ranger Regiment to serving as COCOM for SOCOM. I knew him when he was the Brigade Commander of 3rd Brigade 1st armored Division at Bamberg, Germany after commanding a Ranger battalion. When he left Bamberg in 1984 he was building the Ranger Regiment. He fought many battles from Vietnam onwards but he was truck down by meningitis after he had retired.
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