Memorial Day

Great story about the Eddie Grant plaque.
Eddie Grant Memorial Plaque - The Baseball Reliquary

 

It's a particularly bad day to trot out "Thank you for your service".

 

TIL about Memorial Day. Whole thread is interesting.

 

I actually got this today ... from another veteran no less. #crossthread.

 

If this isn't allowed, someone can take it down. I'm not worried about outing. If someone wants to know who I am, all you have to do is ask.

This is a picture my wife took of me and my dad today at our local Memorial Day service. I'm kind of proud of it. He was a medic on an ambulance train in Germany in the early 60s. I had numerous jobs onboard USS Joseph Hewes in the late 80s/early 90s. This is one of those candid shots I'll cherish for the rest of my life.

 

Can't stand how many news orgs today, including CBS Radio, have used the phrase "paid the ultimate sacrifice."

 

"Made", perhaps. By choice many times.

Bless 'em all.