As we spend this long weekend
working around the house, visiting friends and family, taking in a movie,
watching the Indianapolis 500, taking advantage of a sale at the mall or doing
some other activity, let’s not forget to remember the real reason for the
Memorial Day Holiday. From Wikipedia I’ve
excerpted a portion of the description of the holiday:
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.[1] The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May,[2] originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans — established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers.[3]
For those of us who were in the 225th Aviation
Company (Surveillance Airplane) please take a moment to remember our friends
who sacrificed their lives in the defense of our freedom in Vietnam. I put this video together a few years ago to
commemorate our brothers.
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