Subject: Memorial Day Weekend Sat May 28, 2011 11:40 am
Memorial Day Weekend
Everyone is happy for the holiday, but to say Happy Memorial Day is a misnomer. It was intended to be a time of reverence & reflection of those who have fallen in war. I will enjoy the time away from work, but I will also remember our war heroes and one in my family from a distant war, my uncle Bill who died 2 months before my birth on a Pacific island at age19. My generation may be the last to remember this one of millions who died in that war.
PFC William Lynn, USMC
And, while he did not die in a war, my namesake uncle Bob fought in the European War, bombing Romanian oil fields in a B-17. He was shot down and survived, spending some time in a German POW camp before being repatriated.
He died after the war in a C-47 (DC-3) plane crash in Hawaii - 1952.
Subject: Re: Memorial Day Weekend Sat May 28, 2011 12:51 pm
Thank you Shale, captainbryce, Friendly Veteran and your uncles and all the countless others who have worn our country's uniform. Especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Recently and long ago.
Subject: Re: Memorial Day Weekend Sat May 28, 2011 5:48 pm
Oh, I didn't mention my Great Grandpa, "Doc" Robertson who was a sawbones with the CSA in the Civil War. He died in the 1930s before I was born. He survived the war but was a die-hard rebel until he actually died. I was told you would stand when Dixie was played or he would hit you with his cane.
I can assume he would not care for how I turned out of course, marrying a black woman and all, but gotta respect that he was on the side of a war he believed in.
BTW, all I know of my uncle Bill were the war year letters that he wrote to my grandmother and which I inherited. Some of those letters were published in Andrew Carroll's War Letters and were featured on the History Channel program Dear Home.
This Spring when I went to Washington I left those letters with the Library of Congress, Veterans History Project, since we his nieces and nephews (all over 60) are the last gen to hold them. They should eventually be available online.
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Subject: Re: Memorial Day Weekend Sat May 28, 2011 10:24 pm
Great post, Shale.
And I thank all here, that have served our country.
There has not been a day in my adult life that I have not been forever grateful to those who do for this country what I did not...protect and serve us.
God Bless.
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Subject: Re: Memorial Day Weekend Sun May 29, 2011 9:05 am
Shale that is a very impressive lineage you have there. I like reading letters from the Civil War there are sites online that have them. To all the vets here thank you for what you have done for our country.
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Subject: Re: Memorial Day Weekend Mon May 30, 2011 6:38 pm
My grandpa, 1943
My grandma, her parents, and her five brothers, early 1940s
My boot camp mug shot, 1990...don't laugh...it's not like we were able to primp...
Also, my mom's brother Tom spent time in Saudi Arabia with the Army, and my boys' dad was in Iraq for four months in 2006.
My great-uncle Harry was in the Army and died in Korea. I'm sad I don't have a picture of him.
Today I was online and sent an e-form to Military Personnel Records center in St. Louis to see if I can get my Uncle Bob's military records to get a more complete picture of my namesake.
I also located the exact grave plot of my Uncle Bill at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. So, I guess I actually did honor Memorial Day.
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