HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

“It is no wonder that many Americans no longer observe Memorial
Day with reverence. Schools no longer teach civics, the courts
exclude God (officially) from the public square, and the media
and malls "celebrate" Memorial Day for commercial sales. Indeed,
Memorial Day has been sold out.

Fortunately, Memorial Day is still reserved by American Patriots
as a day to honor the service and sacrifice of fallen men and
women who donned our Armed Forces uniforms with honor.

When contemplating this Memorial Day, consider these tender
words from 3-year-old Taylor Pokorney at the funeral service
for his father, Marine Corps 1st Lt. Frederick Pokorney, killed
in action recently in Iraqi: "My daddy, my hero, I will take
care of Mommy for you as you asked. We will be best friends.
I will take her to SeaWorld for my birthday like you planned.
I love you. I need you. I miss you."


One appropriate way to recognize fallen veterans
and their families is to join with others and help place flags on
the graves of fallen Patriots at your nearest National Cemetery
(generally done the Saturday before Memorial Day).

Founding Patriot John Adams said: "I am well aware of the toil and
blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration,
and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom
I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that
the end is worth more than all the means...."


have a great one everybody! i have to go out of town and open a new store. sux to be me......”

“My dads B-day is on mamorial day :) I got him a flag tie :)”

“Mamorial Day?

Holiday celebrating breasts?”

“about 500 bikers just went past my building in procesion, must be something to do with memorial day I guess.”

“and they keep on coming...... DC btw”

“Strat that was nice. I have to work also.”

“We should remember those who have fallen in the name of freedom. Not all these have been military. Not all of them were American.

Take the day and remember those who inspired you and who lived their lives in pursuit of freedom.”

“Some times my daughter's birthday falls on Memorial day her b-day is the 28th... I have always felt like it's a very special day and really dislike the fact that I will be working this year on this day.”

“Many communities will end the National Moment of Remembrance at
1500 on Memorial Day by playing Taps. From a friend at the USMA,
West Point, comes this brief history of Taps: In July 1862, after
the Seven Days battles at Harrison's Landing (near Richmond),
Virginia, the wounded Commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division,
V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, General Daniel Butterfield
reworked, with his bugler Oliver Wilcox Norton, another bugle call,
"Scott Tattoo," to create Taps. He thought that the regular call
for Lights Out was too formal. The custom, thus originated, was
taken up throughout the Army of the Potomac and finally confirmed
by orders. Soon other Union units began using Taps, and even a
few Confederate units began using it as well. After the war, Taps
became an official bugle call. Col. James A. Moss, in his Officer's
Manual first published in 1911, gives an account of the initial use
of Taps at a military funeral: "During the Peninsular Campaign in
1862, a soldier of Tidball's Battery A of the 2nd Artillery was
buried at a time when the battery occupied an advanced position
concealed in the woods. It was unsafe to fire the customary three
volleys over the grave, on account of the proximity of the enemy,
and it occurred to Capt. Tidball that the sounding of Taps would
be the most appropriate ceremony that could be substituted."”