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Old 09-03-2024, 02:42 PM
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We should pause and remember the soldiers, sailors, and marines that sacrificed so much so that we can live in freedom.


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Thank you for taking your time to start this thread.

My Grandma (Mom’s Mom) lost her first-born son during the Japanese bombings of the US Navy ships@ the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. My sweet Grandma could never speak about Teddy without tears streaming down her cheeks so remembering is still very important to me too.

The human cost of our war was deeply real to everyone in my entire family.

My Dad’s sister married her young love just before he deployed to with the US army to the Korean War. Billy was killed by North Korea soon afterward.

Both of these young men would have been my uncles had they not died far too young.

My family’s sorrow was always near the surface so even speaking about the wars or hearing certain news reports would cause them to grieve. We learned to carefully respect them and, of course, we will never forget.

Freedom really isn’t FREE. It’s not just a saying.

Thank you to all who’ve served.
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And we don't celebrate April 9th?
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Did you know - Rhode Island is now the only state that still recognizes V-J Day as a state holiday?
This is a real loss of our heritage. Failing to commemorate our important historical events means many will never have even a trivial understanding about what took place. I fear we may repeat history because of our failure to learn from it.
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Old 09-03-2024, 03:19 PM
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And we don't celebrate April 9th?
Had to google that.

Either National Winston Churchill Day or a civil war reference.

I assume the latter.

But Memorial Day was started to commemorate the civil war dead.

The April 25–26, 1866, memorial day events honoring Confederate and Union dead in the South was a step toward reconciliation that reverberated nationwide, though it was predictably uncomfortable for some northerners.
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