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Dennis Collins
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1952
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 03:38 pm: |   |
Have you ever seen what happens at Arlington at Christmas time? This is not you tax dollars at work. These are donated by one man. He even covers the expense of trucking them from his hometown in Harrington Maine.
Dennis Collins
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1734
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 04:12 pm: | |
Thanks for sharing the photograph. Arlington National Cemetary is located on the former estate of General Robert E. Lee's wife, Mary. I took my son there when he was very young.
http://www.fdungan.com/son.htm |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
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2062
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 04:49 pm: | |
Thanks, Dennis,
Nice pic. When I went there,I was overwhelmed with the impact of the place.
One can't look at that, understand what it represents, and not be grateful for what we share in this great nation.
God bless them all. |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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2750
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 06:22 pm: | |
I would hope that those men and women who gave their lives for this country will somehow know that it wasn't in vain and that we all respect them just as much today as we have in the past, no matter what the rest of the world thinks about our wars and our ways of doing whatever it is that our me/women have been called to do and when.
That picture shows that we, or at least that one man, do. I do, even though I have never seen Arlington. I would like to walk on that ground for a few minutes to feel the energy coming from all those lives. I can imagine that it would be stupendous.
Thanks Dennis, it is a beautiful picture.
Claudia
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Gloria Marlow
Unity Member
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1775
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 08:10 pm: | |
I remember going to Arlington when I was seven. It left an everlasting impression on me.
Gloria Davidson Marlow
**The Butterfly Game***Shades of Silence***Flowers for Megan**
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1954
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 05:21 am: | |
I don't know very much about the wreath donor except that it's the man who owns the company that makes the wreaths. It has to be quite an expensive gesture and I would guess that it could end when this patriotic and generous man dies.
I'm just wondering where he'll be buried. Arlington? I can't believe that congress wouldn't make an exception for a man like this.
If he's the sort of person that he appears to be, he might not consider himself worthy of being buried among heroes.
Dennis Collins
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Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1211
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 08:59 am: | |
Claudia:
“(…) no matter what the rest of the world thinks about our wars and our ways of doing whatever it is that our me/women have been called to do and when.”
Criticism at one war doesn’t automatically means criticism at ALL sides in any war, and certainly not at ALL men/woman who fought in ALL wars. Just wanted to point that out.
I visited the Margaraten US Memorial Cemetery with my children last year, and certainly not to trample on the graves.
I think it is excellent that there is a person who honors the fallen in such a way as in Arlington.
There is never anything wrong with honoring the fallen, but also honor them by making sure that nobody falls in vain, or for the wrong reason in the future. |
Gloria Marlow
Unity Member
Post Number:
1777
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 09:43 am: | |
But Harry, who decides that it is in vain or for the wrong reasons? Depending on which "side" you are fighting, your reasons are "wrong" to the other side. And I would suppose all soldiers who lose their lives on the losing side lose them in vain...for a lost cause.
Gloria Davidson Marlow
**The Butterfly Game***Shades of Silence***Flowers for Megan**
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Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1217
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 10:02 am: | |
I think that when you are willing to sacrifice your life for your country, you are at least in title to know the real reasons, and do not deserve to be lied to. That goes for the soldiers at ALL sides. |
Stephen Lodge
Wandering Member
Post Number:
167
Registered: 06-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 10:04 am: | |
Thank you, Gloria ~
Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Shadows of Eagles"
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
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Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1222
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 03:46 pm: | |
Gloria,
I forgot to mention something, that "in vain" bit was in response to Claudia's:
"I would hope that those men and women who gave their lives for this country will somehow know that it wasn't in vain and that we all respect them just as much today as we have in the past, (...)"
Perhaps it is indeed in vain when you die and your country loses the war. But there sometimes is no other way. You don't know if somebody died in vain until the war is over. |
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