Blackfive, Mudville Gazette and Castle Argghhh! have their posts and roundups today. As a gesture of respect and gratitude to our American readers and team members, so do we:
- Winds' comprehensive compilation of ways to support the troops has been updated. It includes American, Australian, British, Canadian, Danish, Israeli and Polish troops.
- Over at Defense Industry Daily, the entire day is devoted to Memorial Day posts. A.L. will love the Rolling Thunder post - and check out the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on a motorbike! We share stories from Blackfive - including the reason he started blogging (Newsweek was involved); a healing American tribute to the Canadians killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, led by the guy who commanded the Rangers during Blackhawk Down; a tribute to Italian Brig. Giuseppe Coletta, killed in Iraq and awarded the Gold Medal of Merit with Swords by the Order of Malta (aka. Knights Hospitaler); and Col. Austin Bay's speech to Tejanos in Action, who restored a "pauper's graveyard" and now tend the graves of indigent American veterans buried there.
- Armed Liberal writes about learning to remember better in Memorial Day.
Please don't forget the Italians, who, I believe, have the third highest number of troops in Iraq. They are in Nassiriyah, and they are also in Afghanistan, at the border check point in Herat, a nasty location. They have lost 19 men so far in Iraq, and by all accounts are performing admirably.
Please check my posts for 5/29/2005, and 5/30/2005; at He That Shall Live This Day
We have so much to be thankful for! Just a few years ago the world as we knew it changed. 911 was a shocking awakening for the entire world! Since that time we have seen much progress. The taliban has been eliminated. Saddam can no longer devistate, torture, murder and do all the devistating havoc he had done! Iraqi people are on their way to a free society. . .
There are many moving posts today, but don't miss this one by Don Surber. It damn near broke my heart.
Frank D. - Thanks for that post. The fact that a surviving WWI veteran has too much income to qualify for VA benefits kind of makes you think about Social Security ...
My own memorial story for the day, John C. Waldron, RIP.