Gunday Monday, Memorial Day, “Lest we forget.”

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Contributed by Wild, wild West.

1)WWW:

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Captain John Parker said “Let It Begin Here at Lexington” [and] was dead of tuberculosis in five months.

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Rockets Red Glare & Old Glory at Ft. McHenry 1814.

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Barbary Pirates.

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Mexican American War.

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Texas Memorial at Vicksburg.

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Required Reading.

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America’s Longest War.

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T.R. with 1st US Volunteer Cavalry in Cuba.

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T.R.’s son Quentin bought the farm in France.

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USMC in Nicaragua – Smedley Butler said War is a Racket.

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Teddy Roosevelt, Jr died of a heart attack in France.

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WWII – Europe.

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WWII – Pacific (Saipan).

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Required Reading.

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Punchbowl National Cemetery of the Pacific.

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Korea.

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Required Reading.

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The Cold War. Eyeball-to-Eyeball at Checkpoint Charlie.

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Viet Nam.

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Viet Nam, Marines at Hue City.

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Grenada, 1983.

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Lebanon, 1983.

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Just Cause, Panama 1989.

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Desert Storm, 1991.

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Somalia Intervention, 1993.

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Kosovo Intervention, 1999.

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Afghanistan, 2001.

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Iraq Invasion, 2003.

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Iran, here we go again…

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Pray we don’t get fooled again.

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34)Cederq:

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Radney Foster – Angel Flight (Radio Tower Remix)

This weekend is Memorial Day, the traditional BBQ kickoff to summer.  But on these shores, it’s the day to remember the fallen from past – and current – wars.  The day was originally called Decoration Day, the date was at the very beginning of summer so that wild flowers would be available everywhere for families to decorate the graves of their fallen loved ones.

Many had no graves to decorate, as their loved one had an anonymous foreign grave for their final rest.  Today the Texas Air National Guard (and others) bring the fallen home on “Angel Flights”.  This weekend, remember them.  Both the quick and the dead.

H/T to Borepatch, https://borepatch.blogspot.com/

I grew up listening with my parents to CBS News Radio, can’t say I am not gratified to hear it is gone.

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Vox Popoli, https://www.voxday.net./

CBS News Radio (1927-2026)

Another casualty of technology + social justice: CBS News Radio ceases broadcasting tonight.

CBS News Radio, which provides news programming to an estimated 700 stations spanning the United States, will sign off the air Friday night after nearly a century of broadcasting. The storied service, launched in September 1927, was home to broadcast legends Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards, Charles Osgood, Dan Rather and many other familiar and trusted voices over its decades in operation.

“It’s been around for a long time. Really, an American institution is what we’re losing here,” said Steve Kathan, the longtime anchor of the CBS World News Roundup.

“CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution very important to the development of news other than newspapers,” Rather recently told “CBS Sunday Morning.” “It, for many, many years, was a part, and I would argue not a small part, of what held the country together.”

The decision to shutter the radio news service was announced in March, with the company citing “challenging economic realities.”

Once you cease to be useful to the Black Rider, you will be thrown from the high horse. And if CBS News Radio was a part of holding the country together, it was doing so for the benefit of the ruling elite. Obviously that same elite now has other instruments capable of fulfilling the same function.

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