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Offline Lee Bowen

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Memorial Day 2024
« on: May 27, 2024, 07:12:46 AM »
On this most somber day, let us pause, remember our fallen service members, and give thanks for our hard won freedom.  God Bless America!!!!   :sm_usflag: :flag:

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Re: Memorial Day 2024
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2024, 02:47:17 PM »
Yes!!! God Bless America!!

Offline Duke Gilleland

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Re: Memorial Day 2024
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2024, 10:14:03 PM »
Took a trip Saturday to put some flags and flowers on graves. This included my
Great grand parents buried in Lilac Texas. He served for the CSA in New Mexico and Louisiana. My Great grand Mother and her family were a part of the Siege of Vicksburg. The story goes the the citizens of Vicksburg took to caves cut into steep
banks above the Mississippi River during a river blockade commanded by U. S Grant along with others. She was about 8-10 years old at the time. I felt she deserved the flowers. About 7 years after the war, she came to Texas with her family.
Put flags on a cousins grave who was killed at Pearl Harbor along with a friend of his who also died there that day.
Our thoughts with prayers went out for them on this day of remembrance. May they RIP.  :sm_usflag:
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Offline Jim Glatthaar

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Re: Memorial Day 2024
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2024, 03:36:06 AM »
Something hopefully positive: I noticed more organizations holding remembrance ceremonies than in the past.  And many of those cemeteries were well attended.  We should all try to build on that in the future.