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5/27/2024

MEMORIAL DAY

 Here's an entry from a few years ago that is significant today.    


5/25/2020

MEMORIAL DAY

Today we honor those who gave their last full measure of devotion for our country; the price of freedom. Pete Seeger wrote a song in the 1950's called "Where have all the flowers gone?"  In another verse it asked, "where have all the soldiers gone?"   Starting with the Korean Conflict, the U.S. has made a concerted effort to bring every fallen comrade home for burial.  Where are the others?  I cried writing this.

1,102 lie below the water in Pearl Harbor, interred in their sunken ship
1,541 interred in Suresnes, France
2,289 interred at Aisne-Marne, France
2,841 interred in North Africa, Tunisia
3,812 interred at Cambridge, England
4,153 interred at Saint-Mihiel, France
4,402 interred at Florence, Italy
4,410 interred at Brittany, France
5,076 interred at Luxembourg, Luxembourg
5,329 interred at Ardennes, Belgium
5,525 interred at Epinal, France
6,012 interred at Oise-Aisne, France
7,861 interred in Sicily, Italy
7,992 interred at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium
8,301 interred in Netherlands, Netherlands
9,387 interred at Normandy, France
10,489 interred at Lorraine, France
14,246 interred at Meuse-Argonne, France
16,636 interred in Manila, Philippines
300,000+ lie in Arlington National Cemetery

https://youtu.be/1y2SIIeqy34

MAGA

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