Memorial Day Link Dump

From Fox News a story about America's oldest veteran


From the New York Times a story about LBJ and Gettysburg in 1963

From the Dispatch a story about stolen grave markers

From the Chicago Sun-Times an article about a 96 year old vet finally receiving his medals

From the Dispatch an article about a WWII vet parachuting for his great grandson's benefit

From the Whitehouse Obama's 2013 Memorial Day Proclamation

General Logan's Order from 1868

 

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

As we celebrate this holiday weekend make sure to take a moment and reflect of what the veterans of this country have done for us. If you know a vet thank them for their service. If you have a chance to visit the cemetery please do and pay tribute to those who have given the last full measure of devotion to this country.

 

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Enjoy the days with family and friends. Indy 500, Picnic, cook out, party on. But take a moment to reflect on what this day means to you. Swing by a cemetery and pay respects to those loved ones who have gone before. In the Gettysburg Address it was said by President Lincoln that "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate... we can not consecrate... we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government : of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

Buy some small American flags and go decorate an unattended grave of a veteran. General John A. Logan, in his original Memorial Day order, said " Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and found mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice of neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of free and undivided republic." and "Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from dishonor"

From Elyria (OH) Reporter 6-1-1899

Sleep, comrades! Sleep and rest.
On this field of grounded arms,
Where foes no more molest,
Nor sentry's shot alarms.

Ye have slept on the ground before,
And started to your feet,
At the cannon's sudden roar,
Or the drum's redoubling beat.

All is repose and peace;
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts of battle cease -
It is the truce of God.

Your silent tents, tents of green,
We deck with flowers, with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.