Memorial Day roll call honors 148,000 veterans

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[Dubya]

But they are not taken alone. They are taken together — 148,000 names, representing the entire veteran population of Riverside National Cemetery, a roll call of the dead read aloud over 10 days by more than 300 volunteers.

[Drango]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256441/posts

A real tear jerker.

[Dubya]

[rottndog]

News Video of RNC Tribute

[Dubya]

"It was one of those miracles at the wall. It was absolutely remarkable."

Yes it is a sad one. Thanks for sharing with us.

[Dubya]

Great Tribute thank you.

[Dubya]

BAKERS BANDITS KOREA

[Dubya]

CHOSIN FROZEN KOREA

[Dubya]

[Dubya]

Soldier rest, Gently pressed,
To the calm, Mother Earth's
Waiting breast;
Duty done, Like the sun:
Going West.

SEMPER FI GOD BLESS YOU

[rottndog]

Balad Of Sgt. McKenzie

[Dubya]

wow NICE PHOTO

[CedarDave]

Before the gun salute to the fallen. Each year on the Saturday before Memorial Day the RR has a ceremony before the first train leaves the station for Colorado.

[Dubya]

Thats really neat. Thank you for telling me.

[Eric Blair 2084]

God bless the brave men and women past and present who fought for our freedom and made this a country that people like my parents were desperate to come to!

The sheeple think of Memorial Day weekend as a day off from work on Monday and an excuse to go out and and grill burgers and hang out at bars. Somebody died to give you the right to be a free man and a jackass. Freedom is not free. Thank you warriors and patriots. You are better men than me.

By far the stupidest Barack Hussein Obama moment was when he said on May 26, 2008:

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today – our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

[Dubya]

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[mowowie]

Thank you soldiers.

[Fudd Fan]

Looks like a nice ceremony, Dave. Thanks for the photos.

[Dubya]

Joe Landaker poses on April 28 at his home in Big Bear City, Calif., with a portrait of his son, Jared, a Marine helicopter pilot who died on his last mission in Iraq. Landaker is among more than 300 volunteers who honor veterans buried in Riverside National Cemetery by reading their names leading up to Memorial Day each year.

[Dubya]

Terri Clifton, of Milford, Del., watches as Army soldiers place U.S. flags on the graves of Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Thursday. Clifton's son, Marine Lance Cpl.. Chad Clifton, was killed in 2005 in Iraq and is buried at Arlington.