Memorial Day Thank You Thread

[wooley12]

I never served. I've always felt that Memorial Day was special. I'd get my kids and we would cut a small ash tree down to make a flag pole and raise the Stars and Stripes for a weekend of picnics and parades. I'd explain why this was a special day. A day to reflect a little. A day to enjoy the freedoms that were earned with the greatest sacrifice. I want to honor this day with the names of some of them. And what they did.

Chunzi Pass, Italy
September 12 1943

Pfc Brock, Vernon L.
T/5 Jones, James B.
T/5 Witt, Brownie
Pfc Lindsay, William, C.
Pfc Rowley, Charles L.
Sgt Bunde, Carl R.
Pfc Paskavan, Jacob J.
Pvt Rieker, John E.

"It was a perfectly clear day our company was ordered to move out on the forward slope- completely visible to the Germans in the valley- and it was only moments before the 88 mm guns were firing at us. The shells kept creeping up the mountain until they exploded in our 1st platoon area. I knew it was only a matter of time before they got to me. And
then the firing stopped." --AN INFANTRYMAN'S JOURNAL


Feel free to add if you want. I know that they would like that.

[PNWbrit]

I thought it was on Monday?

[Bobby Stainless]

I'm going to the Memorial of local hero Danny Deitz. Take my son. Leave a flag.

[Tippster]

[nutmegchoi]

Thank you for all those who sacrificed and served.
I chose to be an American.
Love and proud of this country.

[DeepHelmet]

[DeepHelmet]

Staff Sergeant James W Cawley USMC KIA March 29th 2003 in the shithole also knows as Iraq. He was a dear friend and mentor who taught me a lot about life and leadership. Dude left a huge hole when he was killed. This is one of the last pictures of him.

[TBS]

Shout out to my Uncle Herb who survived Anzio and The Bulge
And to Daniel Somers who survived 4 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan
Neither could live with what they experienced
RIP

[HansJob]

For my friends who died and those left behind in the Indochine. Lost but not forgotten. For those that survived, "welcome home brothers."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rO5LOH0w1q0

[Kenny Satch]

Chunzi Pass, Italy
September 12 1943

Pfc Brock, Vernon L.
T/5 Jones, James B.
T/5 Witt, Brownie
Pfc Lindsay, William, C.
Pfc Rowley, Charles L.
Sgt Bunde, Carl R.
Pfc Paskavan, Jacob J.
Pvt Rieker, John E.

"It was a perfectly clear day our company was ordered to move out on the forward slope- completely visible to the Germans in the valley- and it was only moments before the 88 mm guns were firing at us. The shells kept creeping up the mountain until they exploded in our 1st platoon area. I knew it was only a matter of time before they got to me. And
then the firing stopped." --AN INFANTRYMAN'S JOURNAL


Feel free to add if you want. I know that they would like that.

found a link to some pictures and more Salerno area between Chiunzi and Maiori

[Garth Bimble]

Never Forgotten...

[wooley12]

Well thanks, I had forgotten about that forum link. I'm going to order that issue of Life. I've wondered if Ft Schuster was where my father had the shrapnel taken out of his buttox after that 88 hit.

[sb]

Murph

[powdrhound]

At 98, dad's uniform still fits.
He set up hospitals in the Aleutian Islands and in the Philippine's.

[liv2ski]

If you are out and see a vet this weekend, offer to buy them a beer or more if you can afford it. They put up with a lot of shit to do what their job requires of them. Definitely special people and thank you for the sacrifices you have made for your country.

[Rip'nStick]

Cool thread. Learned a lot from my dad who served in Korea. He was also a beatnik in SF and a good dude. But he taught me to put away my tools and how to through a punch. He also said never to fight unless you were drafted or felt that you or yours were threatened. Much respect to all those that serve no matter the circumstances.

[wooley12]

As we remember those who died in battle let us not forget those that died not in combat, but as a result of their service.
RIP Chuck Shunstrom 1920 - 1972.

[Kenny Satch]

At 98, dad's uniform still fits.
He set up hospitals in the Aleutian Islands and in the Philippine's.

God bless him

[Kenny Satch]

my family has no history of Canadian military service but my grandfather and his brother served in WW1 for the US

3 of my grandads nephews served in the Navy in WW2

on November 25th 1944 serving on the USS Cabot my cousin Salvatore Andrews S2c and 34 others died in a Kamikaze attack.

to this date I wear a patch of the ships crest on one of my jacket to honour his memory

a few years ago I was able to get a hold of one of the last living men to serve on the USS Cabot during the war. I was hoping he knew my cousin but he didn't
it was incredible and emotional to say the least...what an honour it was

[Bobby Stainless]

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -George Orwell

[gonzo_lives]

I never served. I've always felt that Memorial Day was special. I'd get my kids and we would cut a small ash tree down to make a flag pole and raise the Stars and Stripes for a weekend of picnics and parades. I'd explain why this was a special day. A day to reflect a little. A day to enjoy the freedoms that were earned with the greatest sacrifice. I want to honor this day with the names of some of them. And what they did.

Chunzi Pass, Italy
September 12 1943

Pfc Brock, Vernon L.
T/5 Jones, James B.
T/5 Witt, Brownie
Pfc Lindsay, William, C.
Pfc Rowley, Charles L.
Sgt Bunde, Carl R.
Pfc Paskavan, Jacob J.
Pvt Rieker, John E.

"It was a perfectly clear day our company was ordered to move out on the forward slope- completely visible to the Germans in the valley- and it was only moments before the 88 mm guns were firing at us. The shells kept creeping up the mountain until they exploded in our 1st platoon area. I knew it was only a matter of time before they got to me. And
then the firing stopped." --AN INFANTRYMAN'S JOURNAL


Feel free to add if you want. I know that they would like that.

For the anti-american piece of shit represented by wooley 12, just how are you related to any hero?

[old goat]

For the anti-american piece of shit represented by wooley 12, just how are you related to any hero?

WTF?

"Now as I sit here safe at home
With a cold Coors Lite an' the TV on
All the sacrifice and the death and woe
Lord I pray that I'm worth fighting for"
Lyle Lovett, "Natural Forces"

[Harry]

In January 1972, POTUS Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense testified before Congress that a major invasion by North Vietnam across the DMZ was "not a realistic possibility".

On Easter Sunday 1972, the Easter Offensive began. 14 Divisions of crack North Vietnamese Army troops flooded across the DMZ in mass. A vastly outnumbered battalion of US Marines became trapped between the approaching NVA troops and the Dong Ha River and fled downriver to the coast. A nearby Navy Destroyer, the USS Buchanan (DDG-14) moved in close to the beach and opened fire with her 5-inch guns, immediately destroying six NVA tanks, saving the Marine Battalion. Unfortunately the destroyer was in so close to the beach that NVA mortar fire was able to bombard the ship, killing one sailor and wounding 7 others. This was the only case in the Vietnam War of a service member being killed on a deep water ship as a result of shore fire.

Navy Seaman Leonard Ray Davis, KIA, 17 April 1972

[wooley12]

Wow! Maybe I'm a poor communicator. In deference to the thread, that's all I'll say.

The guy who jotted the note about the friends of his that died where he was wounded was my father.

[Bobby Stainless]

Stay classy America.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2653906