This is their day, Not yours.

[EvilWayz]

Today, while you are eating barbecue and drinking beer and having a fun time, take a second to thank the people who paid the ultimate price. This is their day, not yours.
#NeverForget

SGT Richard "SemperFiNole" Williams, USMC

1LT Kwami Wakenda, USMC

SSGT Fred Sames, USMC

CPL Buck Privet, USMC

LCPL John Wapenski, USMC

MSGT Selma Craig, USMC

LCPL Brian Tew, USMC

 

[BillytheC]

United States: war fatalities1775-2023 | Statista

The American Civil War is the conflict with the largest number of American military fatalities in history.

www.statista.com

 

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PVT Matthew Dwyer. WW1

 

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[Gator Fever]

My drinking buddy in the Army just before I left after 6 years made a career out of it and was killed in the early part of the Iraq war years later. Randy Rhen was his name.

Army Sergeant 1st Class Randy Rehn, 36

As a career military man, Rehn believed in what he did and never expressed fear about going into war. But he also yearned for the day he could return home to his wife and infant daughter.

www.theguardian.com

He hadnt met his wife yet when I left the Army.

 

[Steveerino]

My Dad was at Pearl Harbor, Midway, the Solomons, Okinawa and briefly in the Aleutian Island during WW11. He never would talk much about it. He was in the Navy obviously and did once tell me he was never afraid of dying until the kamikaze attacks at Okinawa. Why, because he said that most of them had already accepted the fact that they could possibly die and by Okinawa they knew the war was nearly over and hated to die after 4 years of fighting. The only time I ever saw him cry was when he recalled fallen buddies.

 

[NavigatorII]

Happy Memorial Day dad, I can't see you but I love you.

 

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