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In honor of Memorial Day...

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seed702

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A dyin' breed.
...I give you my brother, the most talented member of my family.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/0X4UZNG6GXA
Are we able to embed these anymore?

Unfortunately, after sustaining an IED that killed part of his crew, rung his bell pretty good, and injured his back, something that he will have to live with for the rest of his life, he really isn't the same person. The U.S. Armed Forces, while amazingly capable, often return damaged goods in the form of soldiers suffering from PTSD and other injuries.

I urge you all to say thank you to an enlisted individual this week. It means a lot to them to have support from the regular, every day folks they pass by on the street. I bought a coffee for a young lady wearing desert digital fatigues at LAX on the way back from my honeymoon. She was so respectful, and ever called me sir!

Also, if you're in a position to do so, take a minute and think about contributing to the Wounded Warrior Project. My brother is currently in that program, and it's night and day from when he got home (suffering from PTSD, a bad back, and weeks upon end where he'd wake up, eat, take 5 lortabs 10's, and 3 Xanax, and go back to sleep for 10 hours) to now (enrolled full-time in school, attending church every sunday, in the best shape of his life, and planning a bright future.

http://woundedwarriorproject.org/

Anyway, an early Happy Memorial Day to my homies at BP.

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seed702;1926608; said:
...I give you my brother, the most talented member of my family.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/0X4UZNG6GXA
Are we able to embed these anymore?

Unfortunately, after sustaining an IED that killed part of his crew, rung his bell pretty good, and injured his back, something that he will have to live with for the rest of his life, he really isn't the same person. The U.S. Armed Forces, while amazingly capable, often return damaged goods in the form of soldiers suffering from PTSD and other injuries.

I urge you all to say thank you to an enlisted individual this week. It means a lot to them to have support from the regular, every day folks they pass by on the street. I bought a coffee for a young lady wearing desert digital fatigues at LAX on the way back from my honeymoon. She was so respectful, and ever called me sir!

Also, if you're in a position to do so, take a minute and think about contributing to the Wounded Warrior Project. My brother is currently in that program, and it's night and day from when he got home (suffering from PTSD, a bad back, and weeks upon end where he'd wake up, eat, take 5 lortabs 10's, and 3 Xanax, and go back to sleep for 10 hours) to now (enrolled full-time in school, attending church every sunday, in the best shape of his life, and planning a bright future.

http://woundedwarriorproject.org/

Anyway, an early Happy Memorial Day to my homies at BP.

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Does that mean I can't ding you for the Super bowl chili vid??? :p
 
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Semper Fi to all the brave men and women who make sacrifices and have made sacrifices in the past so we can meddle on Buckeye Planet and in our daily lives. Many Americans do not know just how blessed they are. Thank you to all.
 
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We ran a story on the Wounded Warrior Project this morning... they brought a group of veterans here to Sarasota for a week of activities... local businesses sponsored the trip for them... such a great program.
 
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The Wounded Warrior project has done quite a bit for a couple men and women I know who have been injured or have suffered post-traumatic stress after their time in the barrel over there.

It's a great program. Glad to read your brother is doing better too, seed. Thank him for us.
 
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It's a time to remember and honor all who have fallen defending our country.

Friday I helped place flags at one of the 1400 flags we place at 3 cemeteries. Today I marched in the Memorial day parade, along with my comrades in the American Legion. My post has the largest contingent (military) in it.

And Monday we will hold military services, including firing parties at those 3 cemeteries.

It is one thing to defend our country in the military and quite more another to lose your life doing it. No one wants to die. Let's pray for those who did.
 
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During the gulf war, I never gave a thought to the possibility of getting killed. The same for my first tour in Iraq during OIF. It wasn't until my last deployment in Afghanistan that the true gravity of it hit me. I thought I was pretty numb to death and chaos, after all, we signed up for it knowing that it was a possibility. It wasn't until two Soldiers in my battalion were killed by an Afghan Soldier. What was special about these two were their families. Both of them had two daughters around the same age as mine. I couldn't get the thought out of my head when it happened that those four girls had their lives irreversibly changed in that moment. What if it were different and I was standing outside instead of one of them. My girls, my wife, and my mother would have to bear that loss, not me. After all, I signed up for it. They did not.

In my humble opinion, if you want to honor the fallen one of the best ways to do it is to take care of the living. There are plenty of great charities for the families of fallen Soldiers. Consider giving to them. Those families, especially the children, did not sign up for it, but they are paying the price every day.
 
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The KSB said:
In my humble opinion, if you want to honor the fallen one of the best ways to do it is to take care of the living. There are plenty of great charities for the families of fallen Soldiers. Consider giving to them. Those families, especially the children, did not sign up for it, but they are paying the price every day.
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Young SGT LovelandBuckeye never gave a thought to it in 2005 going through the streets of Baghdad. Fast forward to 2008-2009 and LT LovelandBuckeye has a wife and daughter on the way (actually born while deployed). My outlook changed so much toward mortality.

Just returned from Afghanistan and I can say I looked at every single Afghan with suspicion like I never looked at Iraqis I lived with in '08-'09. Having two kids and a wife changes everything. When I was single with zero kids I did everything dumb possible.

Sorry for the rant, but I agree with the quoted portion of @The KSB post.
 
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A little something to ponder on Memorial Day......


I went to High School with a kid named Joe Reese. It wasn't that big a school, so we knew each other, but we weren't what you would call friends. I was college prep - Joe was what we called a "greaser". Not too swift. Skinny kid, anything but a badass.

After graduation I enrolled at Ohio State. Joe joined the Army. It was 1967.

By the time I started class in the fall Joe had already made it to Vietnam and gotten himself killed. He was in country less than two weeks.

I don't know if Joe was a big OSU fan or not. I do know that he wasn't in the stadium to watch the Buckeyes beat Michigan 50-14 like I was. I know that he also missed seeing us win the NC that season.

By the time I graduated Joe had been dead for 4 years. I had been drafted and it was my turn to serve. I went in the Air Force and spent a quiet and comfortable tour in Virginia. Never left the country. Never came within 8,000 miles of hostile fire.

When I was discharged I began a career in Computer Science. I don't know what Joe would have done. He certainly wasn't college material. But it didn't matter because by then he had been dead for 8 years.

I was married while in the service and in 1976 I had the first of my two children. Joe never had any kids. He wasn't what you would call "cool" so I don't know if he even got laid in HS. And I doubt he had enough time to hook up with any "boom-boom" girls in Nam. For all I know he could have died a virgin.

Now I am getting ready to turn 70.

I have watched a man walk on the moon - and watched that same man die of old age. I have seen my beloved Buckeyes win 3 National Championships. I have used a computer and spoken on a cell phone. I have watched the final episode of Game of Thrones - on an HDTV no less. I drive something called a "hybrid" and worry about Global Warming. I communicate with friends I have never seen on something called a "message board".

I have seen both a black man and a crazy man elected President. I have buried my parents.

I have a comfortable retirement and winter in Florida. My two children have given me six grandchildren - one ready to graduate from HS himself.

I have lived a life.

Joe Reese has been dead for 52 years - and managed to get his name engraved on a wall.

This is what I think about every Memorial Day.
 
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This Memorial Day, take time to remember

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You have to admit that, despite the ongoing partisan slap-fights and political in-fighting and every other really crappy thing going on, we have a pretty damn good life, living in these United States of America. It’s a far-from-perfect country, but, dammit, it’s ours. Ours because our own have and will continue to shed their blood in the ultimate sacrifice. Gave and will continue to give their lives, their hopes, their dreams so that we — and our children and our children’s children and their children — may live and realize ours and theirs.

As you go about your day today, doing whatever it is that you do on Memorial Day, take a second or two or sixty — or more — to reflect on what exactly this day is all about.

Please. Just take a moment. Take a moment to God bless those who have given so much.



God bless those who have paid the ultimate price for the freedom we enjoy day-in and day-out.

God bless those hundreds of thousands of millions who’ve lost fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters in the ultimate sacrifice paid forward to every single one of us, for our freedoms.

And thank you — thank you, thank you, thank you with every fiber of my being — to those who continue serving this country and keep this great nation safe.

And, again, God bless families torn apart and made lesser by the heartbreaking losses, hellish and unthinkable holes in the soul that allow us to do whatever the hell it is we want to on this day and every other day of the year…



Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/05/27/this-memorial-day-take-time-to-remember-8/
 
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