Ramdomness
What Really Matters
Story behind this? Her dad was leaving on a 2 year deployment.
She was crying and wouldn’t let go of her dad’s hand, even when he stood in line saluting.
No one had the heart to break them apart.
A Dog’s Purpose
Randomness
A Simple Philosophy Forgotten
How It Should Be
I have seen a few of these pics over the last year or so. Soldiers blowin’ shit up and not flinching, (other than the dog at the bottom who is gettin the hell outta there). The thing I find interesting is the races of these soldiers, all brothers in arms. It’s not about race, it’s about survival and having each others back.
With Obama and his useful idiots doing their best to divide a nation they could learn something from this picture. It’s not about race or income, it’s about being an American and surviving the good times and the bad.
Remember Who You Are
Saturday Randomness
Soldiers Letters To Wife & Daughter
What a good man, have tissues ready.
Two days after she laid her beloved soldier husband to rest Emma Weaver opened the laptop he’d had in Afghanistan and was overcome with emotion.
Mrs Weaver realized her darling husband Todd, who was killed by an IED on his second tour of Afghanistan in September 2010, had written both his leading ladies goodbye letters in the event of his death.There were two Word documents on the desktop, one called ‘Dear Emma,’ the other marked ‘Dear Kiley’ for the couple’s baby daughter.
Read entire story here
Did Not Know
Did you know that Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day? Shortly after the Civil War, a group of Union veterans called for a day to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers with flowers on May 30. The date was perhaps selected because flowers were in bloom all across the U.S. by late May.
In 1888, Congress declared Decoration Day a federal holiday in the District of Columbia so that veterans in federal employ could honor their fallen comrades and not lose a day’s pay. Decoration Day gradually became known as Memorial Day as the holiday expanded to commemorate veterans of all wars.
In 1968, Congress passed a law that named and moved several federal holidays. Included in H.R. 15951 was the official declaration of Memorial Day as a national holiday to be celebrated on the last Monday of May.
H.R. 15851, 05/10/1968, Records of the U.S. Senate
