Thank you!

[Ghost]

Too all those that have served and those that continue to serve. Happy Memorial Day! :cheers: :peace: :patriot:

[CROSBIKE]

x2. Thanks for your service and the ones that paid the ultimate price.

[XJ Stryker]

Thanks guys :patriot:

[WB9YZU]

Too all those that have served and those that continue to serve. Happy Memorial Day! :cheers: :peace: :patriot:

Wrong holiday mate. You're looking for Armed Forces Day, which was last weekend.

Today we pay respect to those who have died while serving in the Military :patriot: .
A lot of folks take the day to also remember loved ones who have passed on.

If your not into either of those activities, have a picnic and kick back. Tomorrow is the second Monday of the week ;)

Ron

[nick86]

Memorial Day is a United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) Federal holiday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holiday) observed on the last Monday of May (in 2008 on May 26). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who perished while in military service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_service) to their country. First enacted to honor Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army) soldiers of the American Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War), it was expanded after World War I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I) to include casualties of any war or military action.

[GrimmJeeper]

never forget what those who have gone before you have lost, for you to be free..


god bless this country and everyone in it, and have mercy on the brave souls who have given everything in the name of freedom.

:patriot:

[rag]

:patriot:

[Ryno XJ]

THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE SACRIFICED EVERYTHING IN PURSUIT OF FREEDOM!!!

:patriot::patriot::patriot:

[WrenchMonkey]

Wrong holiday mate. You're looking for Armed Forces Day, which was last weekend...

Or, y'know, Veterans Day. But that's six months off...

Robert

[UNCC_99XJ]

:patriot:

[Glenn B]

Well said.... well said.:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

never forget what those who have gone before you have lost, for you to be free..


god bless this country and everyone in it, and have mercy on the brave souls who have given everything in the name of freedom.

:patriot:

[Bent]

For those who paid the ultimate price for my freedom.
:patriot:

[JeepFreak21]

Land of the free, because of the brave!

Thank you!

Billy

[drifto77]

Thank-You
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y172/045cal/USA/EasyriderBikeShow08076.jpg?t=1211823055

[Smittty9785]

you guys need to stop the bashing for those saying happy memorial day to those in the service.. Who cares what day it is. I respect them everyday and thank them everyday for what they are doing. who cares what day it is. you should respect them no matter what.

[scottmcneal]

you guys need to stop the bashing for those saying happy memorial day to those in the service.. Who cares what day it is. I respect them everyday and thank them everyday for what they are doing. who cares what day it is. you should respect them no matter what.


A-MEN

[WB9YZU]

you guys need to stop the bashing for those saying happy memorial day to those in the service.. Who cares what day it is. I respect them everyday and thank them everyday for what they are doing. who cares what day it is. you should respect them no matter what.

No one in this thread has bashed anybody.

Pointing out that this day is Memorial Day, a day we especially honor our war dead is not bashing, or showing disrespect, it is being honest to the day and what it stands for.

To quote Abraham Lincoln.

...We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

To me, that encompasses the meaning of Memorial Day.

Ron

[Ghost]

I guess I should have said "have died" Was trying to make it short and sweet and to the piont. Just wanted to acknowledge them all. :cheers:

[dard1324]

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7485/fallenmarinejv8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

:patriot::patriot::patriot:

[XJCHURCH]

Today is more than just a BBQ.Thanks!!!!!!and I will remember.:patriot:

[FlexdXJ]

I would just like to say thanks to all the soldiers over the years who have served us in times of war and in times of "peace". plus i get paid for the day off and i am on vacation all week;):patriot:

[matt6669]

Ditto, I was just having this exact same conversation with someone else on this board who has served for this country. It's amazing the amount of people that can't just give a simple thanks when they see someone in their uniform.

So thanks to all you guys that deal with all the stuff you deal with on a daily basis! You are our hero's.



you guys need to stop the bashing for those saying happy memorial day to those in the service.. Who cares what day it is. I respect them everyday and thank them everyday for what they are doing. who cares what day it is. you should respect them no matter what.

[XJ TESS]

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff230/tessmac_photos/tom2.jpg


My friend who KIA last Memorial Day 2007 in Iraq, he had only been deployed a month this was his 3rd time there. Miss ya Tom...

[xjtrailrider]

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Thanks guys and gals for your and your family's sacrifices.

:yelclap::yelclap::yelclap::yelclap::yelclap:

[poorboy_616]

I have several friends who are currently serving or are leaving to serve, I have prayed for them and called to thank them.

I also prayed for my two deceased grandfather's who are both WWII vets. I normally make a trip to Portland, Ore, to say thank you, and kiss their headstones (morbid I know, but I never really got to say goddbye to one of them), but that didn't work out this year.

[DrMoab]

:patriot: To Seth Stanton, a true hero.

And to everyone else who is serving or has served.

[nick86]

it is to bad that our ppl have to die over there everyday just so we can live in freedom but ppl have died for out country and will continue to die for our country so we can be free

[welldone]

don't forget that there our some of our four legged friends(K-9's) serving over in iraq and afghanistan. that give their life to help save the lifes of their handles and many other people everyday. my K-9 parnter DAK is one of those of those unsung hero's. he gave his life to save mine, he will always be greatly missed. i will see one day again buddy.