Memorial Day: 2013

The cartoon is not supposed to be funny.

It is Memorial Day in the United States, and it is time to honor our fallen.

I will go over some important things you might want to know about Memorial Day, and answering a few questions if you have any.





First of all friends, lets go over some basic rules of etiquette.

1.) It is not "Happy Memorial Day".
Please don't say that. It is a time of both being humble and solem. Take pride that people have given their lives for our country, our family, and our friends; but this is not a "happy" kind of thing.

2.) Do not thank me for my service.
I get Veterans Day. This day isn't about those who are living, but those who are not. It means to pay proper respect, you might have to go to your local cemetery. You don't have to, but it wouldn't hurt. If you see a gravestone with something similar to this next to it, then the grave belongs to a veteran:

Here are what some of the others will look like:

If your not up for that, or your spending the day with your family, do yourself a favor and look at this website:

http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/wall/2rollofhonor.html

and click on the button that says "MOH by War" or "Hometown Heroes" and start reading some of the citations. Like these two:


http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1940_wwii/pucket.html
http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1950_kc/mitchell_frank.html

http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1940_wwii/munro_douglas.html

http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1918_wwi/dilboy.html

http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_WOT/miller_robert.html


Here's a couple of other tidbits you might not no about some of our wars:

• American's bloodiest day, still remains as the Battle of Antietam in the Civil War
• The US Military, and many other militaries, are still recovering the bodies of soldiers who died in the battlefields of WW1.
• The White House, to this day, bears some of the scars of when it was burned down by the British durning the War of 1812.
• Casualties are not killed. They are killed, wounded, and missing. This confuses lots of journalists, students, and sometimes even teachers. The bloodiest battles in American history remain above the 6,000 KIA mark. These include Gettysburg, D-Day at Normandy (not including the breakout or D+1), and the Battle of Iwo Jima. Whereas each battles total casualties are over 20,000 and up.
• Only one civilian was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, even though there was some skirmishing in the town itself.
• Hollywood shortens some of the length of the battles they show, by a lot. IE: It took four hours for the troops on the beaches of Normandy to get off the beach. Imagine the first scene from "Saving Private Ryan" except it lasts one and a half times the length of the movie.

Four hours to get to the top of the hill, and as you can see, a lot of our boys never left that hill where the cemetery rests

If you guys would like to ask any questions, go ahead and post them in the comments section below, and I'll go ahead and answer them.


SEMPER FILLY