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ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Va., Aug. 25, 2008 – It started as a leap of faith, but more than 10 million steps later, a 10-man relay team arrived here, at what the memorial run’s organizer called the most sacred place in America. Shannon Cleary, center, kisses her mother, Marianne Cleary, Aug. 24, 2008, during the last few moments of Run for the Fallen, a memorial run in memory of Cleary's brother, Army 1st Lt. Michael Cleary. Jack Flanagan, Marianne’s grandson, also participated in the last day of the living memorial that began June 14, outside the gates of Fort Irwin,...

My Fellow American, Once upon a time it was September 11, 2001, and our homeland came under attack. On that fateful Tuesday morning 40 free people, the passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93, seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack against our enemy. Though each of the 40 - including our son Todd - was killed in action, together they succeeded in preventing the additional loss of life on the ground and, most likely, further disaster in our nation’s Capital. This day, this event, this true story of courage in action needs to be remembered and told to future...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2008 – A California troop-support group is paying tribute to servicemembers who died while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom with a mobile memorial. The Fueled by the Fallen Memorial Race Car Team -- a trio of cars bearing the names of Marines who died in Iraq -- makes appearances around the country to raise awareness of the sacrifices made in defense of the United States. Fueled by the Fallen also strives to provide support for the families of fallen heroes and to support and raise awareness for those who are afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder, Ken...

The father of a Flight 93 victim says a crescent-shaped design as part of a memorial to the hijacked airliner "does not properly honor our people." Tom Burnett Sr. of Northfield, Minnesota, objects because a crescent is sometimes used as a symbol of Islam and the September 11th attacks were plotted by Muslims. Burnett spoke today at a meeting of the commission advising the National Park Service on the design. He wants an investigation of how the design was chosen. But Park Service officials and family members who like the design say it was fairly and impartially selected out of...

This video is arranged with a family pet dog, in a back yard scene the old hymn, “I Love To Tell The Story”, is sung acapella by YouTuber - o7jimmy. The cut song, I’ll Fly Away, is sung by the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. This video also is in memory of my mother, Hazel. The hawk at the end of this video is a Red-Tailed & its song.

A popular oceanic visitor of Laniakea Beach, Hawaii paid his respects to his murdered Hawaiian Sea Turtle friend.Link

Folks, we have a national disaster brewing over the 9-11 Flight 93 memorial. Years ago an uproar ensued over the plan to memorialize those who died on Flight 93, considered the first battle on the War on Terror which Americans won, under the Islamic symbol of the crescent. I am not against Islam in general, and I am not of the opinion that vast Muslim community is ready for war with the rest of the world. But Islamic extremists are responsible for 9-11 and many other attacks on the West before and after 9-11, so we must make sure that...

On Friday, just outside of Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport, the first national memorial to 9/11 heroes was dedicated. Shirley Hall, who is a Flight Attendant and the Vice President of the 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial Foundation, explained the memorial sculpture's symbolism during the memorial's July 4, 2008, dedication ceremony: As volunteers on this project, we have each spent time describing this statue in our attempts to raise funds to turn Valerie’s dream into a reality. From Bryce Cameron Liston’s original interpretation to the final magnificent piece of art you see here today, each of us has shared our ideas on...

Pelosi and the pastorAndrew S. Ross Sunday, June 15, 2008 At a San Francisco memorial service days after 9/11, the Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of the Third Baptist Church and a former member of the Board of Supervisors, drew "loud cheers" when he asked, "America, is there anything you did to set up this climate?" "America, America, what did you do - either intentionally or unintentionally - in the world order, in Central America, in Africa where bombs are still blasting? Oh, America." The former partner of Mark Bingham, of Flight 93 fame, was present, as were Sens. Barbara Boxer...

A rendering of a statue honoring Revolutionary War veterans. Photo Credit: Courtesy Of Loudoun Revolutionary War Memorial Committee Photo What expression would an 18th-century woman have donned as her husband left for war? It depends on which government official you ask. snip... ... In an artist's rendering, the man gazes toward the horizon with a determined stare. The boy's head is upturned, as he looks with pride at his father. The wife? "She's looking pretty beat; she's looking like she's sad," Supervisor Kelly Burk (D-Leesburg) said. "If we could get the representation of her to be more looking forward...

A number of veteran events are coming up in the Sierra Vista area. “The one-year clock is ticking and the name of the game is fundraising,” said Joe Larson, administrator of the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. He was speaking about next May’s reburial of remains of soldiers from the late 1800s from a Tucson cemetery to the Sierra Vista site. Larson spoke at the monthly meeting of the Grater Sierra Vista Area United Veterans Council meeting on Saturday. The Historic Soldiers Relocation Project will involve the reburial of 70 sets of remains, of which 53 are known, in an...

On June 12, the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall will arrive and be assembled in McDonough for our county and surrounding areas to come seek and find the names of loved ones lost during the Vietnam War. Even if you did not lose someone during that war, the memorial still stands as a silent tribute to the 58,256 men and women who gave their lives during the conflict. The actual Wall is located in Washington, D.C. and is made of two reflective black granite walls, each 246 feet, nine inches long. At the highest point, the wall is over ten...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland police officers have asked for an apology after they said organizers of a Barack Obama rally set up Porta-Potties on a memorial honoring fallen officers. Earlier this month, 75,000 people gathered in Waterfront Park in downtown Portland to hear Obama speak at a pre-primary rally. Officer Thomas Brennan, a seven-year veteran with the Portland Police Bureau, said he was happy to help at the rally after being called in on his day off. "On short notice, a lot of people had to cancel trips. But they were glad to do it," Brennan said. "It was very...

FORT HUACHUCA — On July 20, 1968, 2nd Lt. James Leland Weeks was leading his first patrol when he was killed. Weeks had not reached his 22nd birthday. He hadn’t been in the Army for too long — less than six months. And, no it wasn’t in South Vietnam — for Weeks was killed while on patrol in the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea in a time when the communist regime in the north were flexing their disdain for the United States — 1968 was the time North Korea captured the U.S. Navy’s spy ship Pueblo. Weeks, an...

5/27/2008 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Airmen from Balad Air Base, Iraq, gathered to observe Memorial Day, May 26. The ceremony had personal significance for many Airmen in attendance. The 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing suffered the loss of three of its brothers-in-arms during the first half of 2008 -- Tech. Sgt. Anthony Capra, Staff Sgt. Travis Griffin and Staff Sgt. Christopher Frost. This reality made the meaning of this Memorial Day more poignant for Airmen assigned to the wing. "Memorial Day here at Balad is not a holiday; it's a day like any of the other 180 I'll...

In MemoriamClyde J. McGee September 19, 1930(Beach, MS)— May 11, 2008 (Dallas, TX) BMC, USN Retired from the U.S. Navy after thirty years of service. Laid to rest on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.

WASHINGTON, May 26, 2008 – Americans can be proud of the men and women in uniform and must remember the sacrifices military personnel have made, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told television morning shows today. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also said there has been dramatic progress in Iraq, but that any withdrawal of American troops remains rooted in the actions on the ground. Mullen spoke with NBC, CBS, CNN and FOX news networks from the Pentagon. The highest-ranking member of the U.S. military said morale among the troops is high and they are proud of the work...

Actions speak louder than words, and Obama's actions show total contempt for our men and women in uniform. Barack Obama issued a statement about Memorial Day, but actions speak far more loudly than words. Let’s see what Barack Hussein Obama’s ACTIONS say about our men and women in uniform. Let’s begin with Barry’s response to the Star Spangled Banner, which commemorates the defense of Fort McHenry by American soldiers. Note that everyone in the picture except for Barack Obama has his or her hand over his/her heart. (A YouTube video shows ten or so people on the platform, to the...

"They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?" Thomas Jefferson "These heroes are dead. They died for liberty-they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the...

Many men and women in the military say that they’re not confident that their fellow citizens are aware of what is being accomplished in Iraq.

No thread here. This is a link to the Trace Adkins video called Arlington for Memorial Day.

O God, by whose mercy the faithful departed find rest, look kindly on your departed veterans who gave their lives in the service of their country. Grant that through the passion, death, and resurrection of your Son they may share in the joy of your heavenly kingdom and rejoice in you with your saints forever. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

I found this while looking for some flat iron bar stock. It's on the Centaur Forge webpages. The date it was posted isn't noted, but I found it an interesting read on this Memorial Day. Dear Centaur Forge Customers and Friends – Thank you for your support over the last year during my deployment to Iraq. < snip for excerpt > I can truly tell you that within my year deployment, I witnessed many actions from our troops that would make you proud of our young men and women serving in the military. It is remarkable to think that young...

In "Rendezvous With Destiny," a multimedia presentation by World-Herald photographers Peter Soby, James R. Burnett and Kent Sievers, you can join a group of Midlands veterans on a special visit to Washington, D.C., and then witness personal stories of war, loss and triumph.

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2008 – The Chrysler Foundation announced the donation of $100,000 to the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Foundation’s 5 Star Campaign in Norfolk, Va., today. In recognition of Military Appreciation Month, Chrysler’s gifts promote the foundation’s campaign for the modernization and expansion of the MacArthur Memorial. “In keeping with Chrysler’s tradition of support for the U.S. military and the courageous men and women who defend this great country, the company and our foundation are proud to contribute to the MacArthur Memorial,” said Bob Nardelli, the automaker’s chairman and chief executive officer. “We want to make sure that future...

CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq, May 23, 2008 – Not long ago while I was sitting at my desk at work, a fellow soldier presented an interesting question, not because of what it was, but because of why he asked it. "So what's Memorial Day, again?" the soldier asked. This kind of disturbed me. As it turns out, the confusion came from the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. While both are federal holidays to remember our nation's servicemembers past and present, only one commemorates the living. The one that doesn't is May 26, the last Monday in May. That one...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2008 – To many Americans, Memorial Day means a day off from work with parades, pool openings and barbecues. But for those who have lost a comrade or loved one in combat, the day takes on a whole new significance. Here are some of their stories. A mass grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery honors the 12 soldiers killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was shot down near Baghdad on Jan. 20, 2007. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army 1st Lt. Brent Pounders Army 1st Lt. Brent Pounders remembers his childhood, reading...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2008 – More than 3,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines officially kicked off the Memorial Day commemoration last evening as they placed 265,000 miniature flags at every grave at Arlington National Cemetery. U.S. Army Master Sgt. Sandra Quaschnick, right, and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jennifer Bailey, left, render salutes during the "Flags In" ceremony to honor fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., May 22, 2008. Quaschnick and Bailey are assigned to the Fife and Drum Corps of the 3rd U.S. Infantry, "The Old Guard." Defense Dept. photo by Sebastian J. Sciotti Jr.  (Click photo for...

SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- Memorial Day honors men and women who have died during military service to the United States. To show respect to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, two posters are available for download and display. The first poster shows a joint-service honor guard carrying a flag-draped coffin with an illustration of the Airmen's Memorial in the background. The second poster features a grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery. A mourner has placed flowers on the grave to honor the fallen servicemember. "I chose a joint honor guard for one poster because it represents all services and...

Today's column is for those of us who grew up, unlike Michelle Obama, proud of being American. Some of us have stood at the gentle slopes overlooking Arlington National Cemetery and smelled the freshly cut lawn of summer, felt the blustery wind chill of autumn, and the quiet white of winter's blanket; each season nourishing the stone soldiers. No other place on Earth will make you as proud to be an American patriot. Listen carefully in quiet solitude and you can hear the ping and clack of spent brass ammunition falling on metal and wood. You can hear in the...

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2008 – The names of four U.S. servicemembers were etched into the glossy black walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial this week alongside more than 58,000 of their fallen comrades. Finishing the addition today was the name of Raymond C. Mason, a Marine lance corporal who died a year ago as a result of ailing health stemming from a bullet wound that paralyzed him in February 1968 during the Tet Offensive. In a ceremony at the wall here, Mason’s widow, Priscilla Mason, watched as an engraver inched a sandblaster over the Marine’s stenciled name with surgeonlike precision....

Congressman Jim Ramstad (R-MN) gave a House speech this month, supporting Mr. Burnett's opposition to the crescent design. The speech is entered in the Congressional Record here, along with supporting statements from Tom Burnett Sr. (father of murdered Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett Jr.). That makes two Congressmen now who have come out publicly against the crescent memorial. (Tom Tancredo took the lead last November, asking the Park Service to choose a completely new design.) News coverage revs up confrontation at this Saturday’s public meetingRamstad's speech, and our ongoing petition drive, netted a full width banner headline on the...

Here is an update on the story from two weeks ago out of Arizona where the House passed a measure to alter that state's blame-America-first 9/11 memorial and sent the legislation to the Senate. The latter has now spoken. The Arizona Republic reports that, in a 5-5 vote "debated along party lines," the Arizona Senate blocked the removal of some "phrases" from the state's 9/11 memorial adjacent to the capitol building in Phoenix. Yet the newspaper left readers to surmise which political party blocked the legislation. Before reading the article, scan down, review a sampling of what will remain, and...

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Mourners remembered William F. Buckley Jr. at an April 4 memorial Mass as a man of deep faith and unfailing confidence in the Catholic Church who brought people to believe in God and inspired vocations to the priesthood. "His tongue was the pen of a ready writer" and his "words were strong enough to help crack the walls of an evil empire," according to Father George W. Rutler, principal celebrant and homilist at the memorial Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. "His categories were not right and left but right and wrong," Father Rutler...

April 07, 2008 © 2008 WorldNetDaily A group of concerned citizens has been raising alarms about the Islamic elements planned for the Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., for years. And a member of Congress has demanded the National Park Service make changes in its plans. But there's been no substantive response, and now the activists say it's time for the American people to let officials know whether they want to pay for and have installed in the memorial a crescent that points to Mecca to make up a "mihrab," the foundational point for every Islamic mosque, a tower that...

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Vladimir Putin is to fulfil an unrealised dream of Joseph Stalin's by creating a grandiose state cemetery. In a corner of northern Moscow bulldozers began churning the earth his week in a section of wasteland where Mr Putin and Stalin, the dictator he is said to revere, could one day be laid side by side. The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery, its designers boast, will be Russia's answer to America's Arlington. Arguably the most ambitious architectural project undertaken since the fall of the Soviet Union, it remains to be seen whether the cemetery, due to be completed by 2010, will become...

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From WTNH, Channel 8 New Haven: Thief damages New Haven fountain Posted Mar. 18, 2008 6:02 AM New Haven (WTNH) _ A thief targeted the fountain on the New Haven Green and caused thousands of dollars in damage. Someone stole 32 bronze nozzles and eight bronze light fixtures from the fountain that sits across from city hall. Police think it has to do with the record-high value of scrap metal, the New Haven Register reported. The city thinks it will cost about $20,000 to repair the fountain, which is also a war memorial. http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=8031761

The group searching for HMAS Sydney has found the wreckage of the World War II Australian warship off the coast of Western Australia, the ABC has confirmed. The breakthrough by the Finding Sydney Foundation comes less than 24 hours after it announced it had located the wreckage of the German raider Kormoran, which also sank after a battle with the Sydney in November 1941.

MISSION VIEJO — Ronnie Guyer summarized Saddleback College's new veterans' memorial when his speech at the college's campus Wednesday turned into song. "To fallen soldiers let us sing, where no rockets fly nor bullets wing. Our broken brothers let us bring to the mansions of the Lord," he said. The words come from the hymn "The Mansions of the Lord," written for the 2002 film "We Were Soldiers" and sung at the funeral of President Ronald Reagan. Guyer, who served in the Vietnam War, joined three fellow veterans at Saddleback College for a forum discussing the significance of the new...

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2008 – A memorial in Oklahoma City will honor servicemembers who paid the ultimate sacrifice for freedom while serving Afghanistan and Iraq. “Military memorials … remind us of the great sacrifices that have been made for this country and the world,” said Jason Savage, president of “Freedom Memorials,” A nonprofit group dedicated to planning and raising money for the memorial. “It’s important to honor those sacrifices today.” That’s a tall order if the desired location is on National Park Service land in the National Capital Region, Savage discovered. “The Commemorative Works Act of 1986, which deals...

12/18/2007 - ARLINGTON, VA. (AFPN) -- Members of the Civil Air Patrol paid their respects to fallen Airmen at a wreath laying ceremony at the Air Force Memorial here Dec. 15. CAP Brig. Gen. Amy Courter, national commander, joined the Hagerstown, Md., unit at the memorial to "offer support in the spirit the Civil Air Patrol always has." "We came out here to honor Airmen at their memorial," General Courter said. "Of our 23,000 cadets across America, to bring some of those cadets here is just a terrific honor." The ceremony included several members of the unit's honor guard, a...

I dare you all to listen without a tear....

When the blasts started, Remo Cuniberti thought he was done for, but not that the United States was under attack. Cuniberti was in the forward magazine of the battleship USS West Virginia, which was moored in Pearl Harbor. "I was with a couple friends of mine, way up in the forward magazine near the bottom of the boat, and we were checking propellant charges," said Cuniberti, who now lives in west Palmdale. In those days, some of the ship's munitions didn't have powder built in and needed powder cartridges - large pellets - for their propellant. Checking the cartridges was...

Question for Freepers this December 7. Are your kids taught in school about the attack on Pearl Harbor? Unlike many educational theorists, I think certain facts ought to be memorized, and what happenened on December 7, 1941 is one of them.

On the spot where New York's mighty World Trade Center stood, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.'s anointed designer, Michael Arad, decrees that there be . . . just two huge, square, "reflecting" pools. Maybe you can gaze at your navel through them. In a complex slated to cost $1 billion, this urban swamp is called "Reflecting Absence." Absence, indeed. What these modern war memorials have in common with each other is nothing. They portray nothingness. They have no people in them, never mind men carrying guns or swords. . . [T]o list deaths without comment about what they did in...

A record number of crosses were planted this year in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey.

MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2007 – Robert Perkowitz stepped up seven concrete stairs to a towering memorial and placed a flowered wreath at its base. Members of the 74th Joint Civilian Orientation Conference participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Manila American Cemetery Memorial Chapel, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2007. Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Michael D. Heckman, USN  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. In his pocket was a military coin given to him by a Special Forces buddy in the hospital recovering from a gun battle in Afghanistan. In his heart swelled a deep appreciation for...

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