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Enjoy your 3 day weekend

64Trvlr

64Trvlr

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While you're out having a good time this weekend pease think about the reason for it.

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I'll be doing 3 grave side services and a ceremony at our Memorial Park this weekend.

Then we're having burgers and dogs and talking with and about friends past and present. If it's like most years should be some great stories.


Today is the day we celebrate and mourn our servicemen and women that have paid the highest price imaginable. They have given their lives for us and others in foreign lands. They did so unhesitatingly and without thought for their own safety.

I am truly honored and humbled to have known and served with these heroes. I would not be here today if not for two of them on two different occasions in two different countries.

I do not have enough words to say thank you for saving my life and the lives of others.

I wish you all a peaceful and quiet day.















absent companions...
 
I'm working all 3 days....and I'm kinda retired
 
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EOD1 Sean Carson. KIA August 16th 2012 in Afghanistan. I was fortunate enough to work with him for 4 years on Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Oahu. I still remember the last time I talked to him. Seems like it was yesterday. Gone way too soon but never forgotten.
 
Thanks for posting this. I got the grumpy old man award at work Friday afternoon as I was listening to everyone talk about their weekend plans. They asked me what I had planned, and I kinda snapped at them all when I said I was "going to pay my respects to all the dead service men in our cemetery, who died giving you the freedom to have a 3 day weekend"

Fuckin cvnts

Thanks to all of you who have served. Your sacrifice is not forgotten at least by me.

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The best thing you can do on Memorial Day is remember that our politicians have lied us into every war we've been involved in since WWII and the best thing you can do to remember the fallen is to resist the next lie they try to sell us on.
 
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Veteran suicide rate is still high at 17 per day. Tomorrow is rough for a lot of vets out there - it's a good day to check on the ones you know.
 
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On October 4, 1967, an F-105 Thunderchief (tail number 63-8346, call sign "Splendid") carrying two crew members departed Korat Air Base, Thailand, on a night low-level strike mission over enemy targets in North Vietnam. The last known contact with the aircraft occurred just after it refueled over northern Thailand and headed towards its target, and it was not seen again. When the aircraft failed to return to base on schedule, electronic search efforts were conducted. The next day, search and rescue teams flew over the Thunderchief's flight path but failed to locate a crash site or either of the crew members.

Captain William Allan Lillund, who joined the U.S. Air Force from California, served with the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron. He was the electronic warfare officer aboard the Thunderchief when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. After the incident, the Air Force promoted Capt Lillund to the rank of Major (Maj). Today, Major Lillund is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed along with all his fallen comrades on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.
 
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On October 4, 1967, an F-105 Thunderchief (tail number 63-8346, call sign "Splendid") carrying two crew members departed Korat Air Base, Thailand, on a night low-level strike mission over enemy targets in North Vietnam. The last known contact with the aircraft occurred just after it refueled over northern Thailand and headed towards its target, and it was not seen again. When the aircraft failed to return to base on schedule, electronic search efforts were conducted. The next day, search and rescue teams flew over the Thunderchief's flight path but failed to locate a crash site or either of the crew members.

Captain William Allan Lillund, who joined the U.S. Air Force from California, served with the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron. He was the electronic warfare officer aboard the Thunderchief when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. After the incident, the Air Force promoted Capt Lillund to the rank of Major (Maj). Today, Major Lillund is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed along with all his fallen comrades on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.
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absent companions...
 
The start of the Indy 500 was really cool with TAPS, the flyover and the music if anybody saw it. Very nice tribute.
 
Spc. Chris Eckardt was one of the soldiers who came from Wisconsin to backfill our unit when we deployed in 2003. He came home with us a year later as a Sgt. with one of the few Purple Hearts received in our Company due to shrapnel from an IED and to a newly born child (apparently he was busy shortly before deployment :smokin:).

A year or two later his home Company in Wisconsin was called to active duty to deploy and although his previous tour would have exempted him from having to go he made the decision to go again. Once more, him and his wife decided it was time for baby #2. Leaving a wife a now 2 children Sgt. Chris Eckardt did not make it back home from his second tour.

I didn't know him much more than our year together but he was a damn good man on his way to starting his life with his family. Godspeed and RIP Sgt. Chris Eckardt :usa:
 
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