Memorial Day

[Greg Just]

Let's not forget the true reason for this 3 day weekend. We get so tied up in our personal lives and forget why we have the freedoms that we have and why we can do the things we are able to do in freedom.

Please take a moment to remember our service men and women, past and present, for their sacrifice in helping to make this weekend possible and hang the flag in support! If you see a veteran this weekend, thank them for their support of this great country.

[Barry Reade]

Well put greg, and Thank You!!

[harry strasil]

Especially those who gave all so the many could enjoy the fruit of their labors and those who came back, scared, missing parts and pieces and sometimes minds. Such a sacrifice should not be forgotten.

And to those of you who are vets, remember you can salute the flag in civilian clothes now legally. I always did anyway.

THANK YOU VETERANS FOR YOUR SACRIFICE, SO I MAY BE A FREE MAN IN THE LAND OF THE FREE.

[David Sims]

Thanks Greg for thinking of us. Harry; after 27 years of service I always salute the flag no mater what I am wearing.

[Ray Newman]

Lest I forget those I served w/ in Echo battery, 12th Marines who made the Supreme Sacrifice:

PFC David Levant Felt DOB 04/05/46, Sacramento, CA KIA 08/17/65
PCFJohn Alton Girod DOB 06/14/44, Denham Springs, LA KIA 02/21/66
2Lt Peter Paul Domiano DOB 10/18/43, Industry, NY KIA 07/01/66
PFC Billy Dean Nelson DOB 06/30/4,Loomis, NE KIA 07/20/66
PFC Bradley Alan Pearson DOB 11/27/46, Clear Lake, WI KIA 07/20/66
L/Cpl.William Koho DOB 05/14/47, Bend, OR KIA 03/14/67

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Thanks to all who have served and all who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy.

I'm one of those Vietnam Era vets. Never made it to 'Nam but I was spit on and called a baby killer while traveling in uniform through Union Station in Chicago in the late '60s. A couple of my childhood friends went and didn't return alive. 20 years later with our oldest son in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield I watched my shy little wife standup in front of a crowd of 60-80 people and more importantly US Senator's Larry Craig and Steve Symms who had called the meeting for families of military personnel ....."You aren't going to do what you did to our brothers and husbands.....Let our sons and daughters fight to win or bring them home now." she stated. As I proudly watched her, I cried.

My personal thanks to all who have served. We are forever indebted to you.

[Dave Anderson NH]

Thanks Ray. I have my own list which I posted here several years ago, also of my fellow Marines. Each January on my way to Colonial Williamsburg I swear that I will stop and see The Wall. 39 years after coming home and I don't know how many years after the wall's completion, I still can't bring myself to do it. May our friends live forever in our memories. Semper Fidelis

Dave Anderson
Cpl 0331
B 1/7 1st MARDIV

[Alex Shanku]

" The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men."
~Minot J. Savage

A Co. 1st Bn 3rd Mar

0331 Cpl. 5/17/98 - 5/17/02

[Lee Koepke]

My heartfelt thanks to all that served and are serving our Country.

The sacrifice by you and your families have made this Country great.

[Keith Outten]

Join me tomorrow on Memorial Day 2008...follow this link:

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=85006