I just put up my flag this morning. My gratitude, thoughts and prayers to all the members of our military, past and present, and their families.
UPDATE Nice Deb has a great series of videos in honor and tribute to the day.
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My gratitude, thoughts and prayers to all the members of our military, past and present, and their families.
What Darleen said.
These warriors also.
Musical tribute .
Obama’s reelection prospects are by now well understood to be doomed to failure, most especially within the Obama camp itself. The question then is, to which of the possible wars of choice will Obama cynically turn in an effort to save his political life? Syria? Pakistan? Iran? Yemen? Some other potential area of crisis? Be on your guard warfighters. You will be used.
Another type of warrior enters the fray.
And now for something completely different
Yeah. I “expect” there may be a change of plans after Jan 2013.
The armed forces are toys to progressives. Gimmicks like this prove it.
Thanks to all who served, in all branches, at all times.
We are able to enjoy much from your hard work, risk and diligence.
“the first all female” doesn’t seem to be at the linked destination
These lives were given as grace to a country that even at its best could never deserve it fully. Our thanks can never be enough.
That’s why we set aside a day each year in which to keep saying it.
A couple of Hornets buzzed my house this morning, the first I’ve seen here in 5 years. I think they were doing a fly over of the ceremonies at the cemetery in town, and our house just happened to be the turn around spot. Anyway, pretty cool way to start the day…
They re-wrote that story without notice of the changes; the quote I had above used to be in the story. Headline changed too. But remember Slarti they are the professionals.
Remember that time when Obama was speaking at his first Memorial Day gig and he recognized some of the fallen among the audience?
That was awesome.
Via email from the Weekly Standard.
Very responsive.
The armed forces are toys to progressives. Gimmicks like this prove it.
Isn’t it just this side of a gimmick, i.e., they’re trying to avoid the inevitable sexual tension when you’ve got men and women in such close quarters?
Instead of being Yet Another Feminist Pipe Dream, I mean.
Heh.
Never mind. </Litella>
Also, no disrespect, but the Coast Guard anthem sounds like an old Texaco commercial to me.
Is it?
All female crew? No good can come of this. Of course, the enemy better watch their asses when the entire crew is PMSing at the same time and there’s no chocolate in the galley.
Kind of sounds like that old movie “Operation Petticoat”, doesn’t it? Maybe they can paint the submarine pink.
What do you think the % hetero would be on an all woman’s submarine crew?
Did I just say that out loud?
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It’s not like we weren’t all thinking it, B Moe.
My deep thanks to all who’ve served. That goes doubly so for pw people who’ve also occasionally cracked me up or taught me something around here as well.
Cheers.
Really? Like who, your mentors, allies, and comrades?
OT: Is it wrong of me to find it hilarious that this chick bit the dust in a Lexus?
Kinda…
It would have truly been hilarious if she were a law student. But, yeah.
nice pic of the shock wave impacting the ocean
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Memorial Day tribute – USS Iowa final voyage this weekend
Just about the dead – the Gold Star families too. Not thank a veteran, or have a sale day, or the unofficial start to summer….just about those who died in service to this country.
LTC John
With all due respect, not all combat deaths happen on the battlefield …
my grand-uncle, Ray Aseltine, fought in WWI, Marines under Pershing, at Verdun. Was taken POW but Germans didn’t inform the enemy of POWs so he was listed as MIA until the war was over and he was shoved out of the “hospital” where he had been warehoused to die.
He had been gassed in the trenches; when captured on patrol, stripped of his clothes and given rags to wear. He became slave labor (mines), with starvation rations (he watched a poor starving Russian soldier clubbed to death by rifle butts by German guards for the crime of stealing a potato off the dirt where it had fallen off a wagon)
He lost almost 1/3 his weight. He finally did come home, got married, had three children and died of the physical consequences of his service.
He was 27 when he died.
That’s heart-breaking, Darleen.
One of my grandmother’s brothers survived the Bataan Death March only to come home and get murdered while sleeping in his car one night. No one was ever caught and it haunted my grandmother all her life.
I take LTC John’s point though.
I was out at the cemetery before typing my comment and it’s still my base instinct to thank all the veterans and active duty people as well. Don’t want to over think it but it probably comes down to respecting both the living and the dead for the same reason.
But, yeah, it’s not Veterans Day.
But, yeah, it’s not Veterans Day.
No, it is not. It is very moving (to tears for softies like me) to visit the veterans cemeteries. I lived not far from Ft. Rosencrantz in San Diego, where Romney and McCain were today, and it is a very solemn place. I get the same overwhelming feeling of sadness at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in DC.
“Maybe they can paint the submarine pink.”
Actually, leigh, according to Clay Blair’s Silent Victory: a 2 volume history of American submarines in WWII, painting the periscope and the conning tower pink wasn’t uncommon because submariners believed that pink tended to “pick up” the color reflected off the surrounding water and made the scope harder to spot.
Here’s the PDF of the NYTimes, May 13, 1918. Go to the bottom right-hand corner and there’s Ray Aseltine’s name as MIA. He was 17 y/o at the time.
Whadda ya know? That’s interesting, SDN. I lived in SD for almost 7 years and I still don’t know much about the Navy.
Just back from a week at Mousville with the dependants.
Happy Memorial day all!
Krauthammering on #FORWARD and Democrats. He does so so well!
This thing about pink periscopes?
That is a cool/crazy bit of trivia.
OK. From Argghhh!!!
And.
That is just so, so strange, Geoff.
I imagine that working far better if you were looking for that sub in a sunset with those reds and pinks. I don’t understand it at all as an all purpose color though.
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The Hill reports the Michelle Obama all-female submariner story
That is two sets of reporters and editors who have let that story through. Either our military has been so politically corrected that we do have a single cycle submarine, or this administration is so ridiculously prog that savvy DC reporters and editors consider an all-female submarine a perfectly reasonable possibility.
comment left on The Hill’s story about the Illinois:
I have listened to TAPS most allof my adult life. It is the most profound piece that one can imagine.
Saw this performed live yesterday at Coors Field. Yeah, I got all teary.
Darleen,
I never said “combat deaths” – just the dead and their families. Your story fits that.