What are Your Plans?

[Black wallnut]

For the last several years we have, as a family, attended a memorial service at one or more of our local cemetaries on Memorial Day. The service is given by the local VFW Post. Prior to the service we line the drives with flags.

Many citizens think of Memorial Day as nothing more than an extra day from work. Each year, I'm glad to say, more and more people are remembering the reason for the holiday. Spending time in remberance for those fallen servicemen is well worth the effort IMHO.

[DUD]

Hey Mark
I appreciate as do all Veterans Your making the effort to remember them on this day. On Monday at 9:00 A.M. Our local Veterans day parade kicks off down Main Street. Politicans and Veterans and Bands and Cheerleaders walking down that hot asphalt. The oldest Veterans are usually in convertables, while Politicans work both sides of the street.

I get there a little early to get a spot in the shade and take My 3' X 5' flag to wave. I am proud to see the turnout and it seems to get bigger every year. Bill

[Mrs. Wallnut]

We are doing what Mark said even though I will work the night before, I will forget taking a nap till we are done doing what we planned to do.

I think its important to take the time and go to this service and remember ALL of our armed forces, who have served, who have lost their lives for our country and for those who are serving now.

[Ed62]

There will be a nice Memorial Day service at a park not far from us. Later on, we'll probably visit the cemetery.

Ed

[MikeMcCoy]

We are just opening a Medal Of Honor museum on the USS Yorktown and are having a service on board a little earlier than the holiday on Sunday morning.

[Jim Boyd]

Termites never sleep. I have to work

[Jim Boyd]

We are just opening a Medal Of Honor museum on the USS Yorktown and are having a service on board a little earlier than the holiday on Sunday morning.

My father-in-law served aboard the Yorktown as a fighter pilot in WWII.

[Thalermade]

A story of the importance of Memorial Day from this mornings newspaper.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.d...348/1077/COL02

[SARGE..g-47]

I will walk through the local Shadowlawn cemetery while "Dixie" is still covered by dew to visit all that were killed in action in wars going back to the civil war from my hometown. Two classmates from HS are there that weren't as lucky as myself in VN.

Then... my family goes to an Indian Festival that travels through each year and ends up here on Memorial Day. I pick up a new flute CD each year to add to the excellent "Eye of the Hawk" CD which permeates my shop while I am "as one with the spirit of the wood".

At 3 PM.. American Indian veterans host a tribal dance and ask all veterans to participate regardless of race.. color.. creed to honor our comrades that fell in battle and not as lucky as we...

Regards...

[Bruce Cohen]

It's most heartining to read the plans of all of you.

I've always felt that Memorial Day was just another excuse for stores to have sales, completely forgetting the real meaning of the day.

As the majority of the guys I couldn't bring home with me are buried in Arlington, I'm just going to spend half the day remembering them and all the other "kids" who couldn't be here this weekend.

God does see and remembers. Rest well, my brothers.

Bruce