Memorial Day 2010 – What price freedom?
I keep this photo as probably the most powerful reminder for me of what the real price of freedom looks like. Those that give their all as well as those they leave behind. We should remember both as we celebrate the freedom they’ve blessed us with and assured for us on this Memorial Day.
Dedicated to Stuart Lee Barnett, SP4, KIA, RVN, 8/26/1970. Thank you Barney – rest in peace, my friend.
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Powerful image, indeed, but whoever made it public needs a “junk shot.”
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That’s one of the most powerfully moving photographs I’ve ever seen. It needs to go up on youtube and everywhere else the masses can see it. Thank you.
Gotta call my Dad today, Korean War veteran. He was libertarian back when he didn’t know what to call it.
I learned so much from him, including his distrust of politicians, his disgust with bureaucracy, and his fear of big government.
Thank you.
Period.
Damn. Â They were playing Taps when I saw your post with that great photo.
Curse tear ducts.
They showed it at the symphony last night during taps, and I had the same problem! I haven’t cried in 30 years, but that got me close!
I think I’m the only Scots/Irish Hawaiian (they are very emotive people) in captivity.  I get teary at the skirl of the pipes.  It’s a curse, but I’m sure one I earned somewhere.
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God bless the Flag and its loyal defenders,
While its broad folds o’er the battle-field wave,
Till the dim star-wreath rekindle its splendors,
Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave!
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
A vet friend sent me this today:
“It is foolish and wrong
to mourn the men that died.
Rather we should thank God
that such men lived.”
General George S. Patton, Jr.
This photo shows that Patton was partially wrong. Â We should do both. Â God bless her and comfort her in her loss.
That is an amazingly powerful photo. May God bless those who served and rest the souls of the fallen including my husband’s uncle Martin.
What is this “freedom” that we’re fighting for? Unfortunately, this term seems to be used to have us send troops to foreign lands without question. Given the consequences, perhaps we should use more scrutiny when our government tells us we are fighting for “freedom.” Perhaps we should question the way we look at war this memorial day: http://infohedon.blogspot.com/2010/05/memorial-day-another-enabler-for-war.html
This is one of the most powerful and eloquent pictures I have ever seen. Anyone who sees this and is not moved has no heart. InfoHedon – take your isolationist bs somewhere else today. Your comment is a desecration of the moment depicted.
Yes, let us not send men to die in foreign lands, let us wait until they must die here at home amongst their families and friends.
Remembering and honoring the dead doesn’t encourage us to go out and do it some more.
Who is this “we” you refer to? You are not one of us.
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