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Memorial Weekend 2025

olbriar

olbriar

 
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I don't have any special plans for the weekend beyond visiting the cemetery and calling a few vets I know. I will smoke something out Sunday more than likely. Rain is forecasted for my area all weekend.
Do you have any special plans? If you travel, do be safe. Please go out of your way to thank the veterans in your life for their service.
 
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We are going to a neighbors' for a short while before we travel to a farewell party for a friend who's moving halfway across the world after his retirement. I'm sort of hoping the latter doesn't go long because I'd rather not be on the roads late; too many celebrate the freedom we have (because so many paid the ultimate price) by drinking too much and driving.

Eternal thanks to those who joined eternity far too soon to allow us the freedoms we enjoy.
 
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Simple plans on my corner of this rock...
The Boss Lady and I are just going over to the boat launch and watch the comings and going.
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That sounds relaxing and fun. As a child, we would go to the municipal airport and sit on their observation deck and watch the comings and going of planes. It was cheap and fun. My sister and I always got to have a coke... rare deal!
My father, God rest his soul, was a pilot in WWII. He would not talk about the war but he absolutely loved flying. He met my mother, married, had children and the close he ever came to flying again was sitting on that observation deck. What was fun for my sister and I had to be a sad and painful for my father.
 
olbriar said:
That sounds relaxing and fun. As a child, we would go to the municipal airport and sit on their observation deck and watch the comings and going of planes. It was cheap and fun. My sister and I always got to have a coke... rare deal!
My father, God rest his soul, was a pilot in WWII. He would not talk about the war but he absolutely loved flying. He met my mother, married, had children and the close he ever came to flying again was sitting on that observation deck. What was fun for my sister and I had to be a sad and painful for my father.
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My dad was a Navy pilot during WWII also and we used to do that too. We'd have fun waving to the departing planes. After they closed the observation deck, due to security, we'd still go down to one of the parking lots and sit watching them. They closed that lot off some years ago.

Simple things in life aren't so simple any more.
 
PitCarver said:
My dad was a Navy pilot during WWII also and we used to do that too. We'd have fun waving to the departing planes. After they closed the observation deck, due to security, we'd still go down to one of the parking lots and sit watching them. They closed that lot off some years ago.

Simple things in life aren't so simple any more.
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It is sad but true. People nowadays would be less than entertained if they were allowed to watch which is also sad. It seems to relax you have to be doing something anymore. Gone are the days of just sitting with family or friends and enjoying each other.
I'll think of your father this weekend. What a price those guys paid.
 
just bought some beef ribs from Costco. it was the cheapest beef they had there. gonna grill those tomorrow. i might throw some italian sausage on the grill as well.

not gonna do much this year. just gonna take some time to relax, unwind and eat some good food....and of course drink some good booze....lol
 
Holy heck on a blanket, it was so warm outside, the family decided to maintain and plant my sister's nine plants.
We spend an entire morning and half over there.. We all of a sudden got sunburnt.
 
It's said that people die twice: once when their heart stops for the last time; and the last time someone says their name out loud. Every Memorial Day I stop to say the name "Staff Sergeant Kevin Zeigler" aloud. The Darling Bride's nephew was a Staff Sergeant of the United States Army 10th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division. On August 12, 2006, he was leading his platoon on foot patrol during combat operations outside Baghdad. He directed his platoon to ease back as he and his assistant platoon leader ran point ahead of the soldiers in their charge. He spotted the tripwire of an IED and marked it: what he didn't see, however, was the second tripwire.

While Memorial Day holds a much deeper meaning for those who lost someone far closer to them than a nephew, it still leaves a void in the family that can never be filled; a pain in the heart that can never be healed; and a debt that we, as a nation, can never repay.

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