I offer quiet internal personal thanks to those who fought and sacrificed on this Memorial Day.
Dad saw action with the USMC in the pacific during WW 2. He hated ceremony. Didn’t dress up, didn’t march in parades, didn’t go to parades and generally didn’t like those who did.....thought of them as posers. He remained in uniform as a member of NYs finest after the war for another 23 years . He couldn’t wait to get out of that uniform either. (The ceremonial NYPD honor guard at his funeral was nice....as was the Marine Corp honor guard at the national cemetery.he probably would have hated it)
I didn’t serve and am neither proud or ashamed of that fact. It is what it is.
I thank those who served and have personally thanked those I come across in uniform. But like dad there is something about the pomp and ceremony I don’t like. So in honor of dad and all the others who served I will watch WW 2 In Color on the history channel and later Texas Rising.
Semper Fi Dad.