New York – Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed flags on 42,000 graves. At Dover Air Force Base, the remains of fallen soldiers are returned to their families. In Afghanistan, the top U.S. commander reads a 23-year-old’s letter to his family that he had prepared to be read in the event of his death.
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“Today we remember his life and his words, for they speak resoundingly and timelessly for our fallen brothers and sisters in arms,” said Marine Gen. John Allen, who also leads the NATO coalition in Afghanistan.
Across the world this weekend, Americans were honoring the fallen, veterans and military personnel in ceremonies and private remembrances.
Here’s a gallery of photos from Memorial Day weekend.
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If it wasn’t for my Jewish holiday this weekend, I would have gone to show my support and gratitude for the true heroes of our great country!! Thank you to all the brave men and woman who fought and served! I and my family appreciate it.
i guess yidden will have the bbq’s next year
On Apirl 11, 1945 I was liberated in Buchenwald by an armored division of the 3rd U.S. Army. The soldiers were the greatest men I ever met. Gingerly and wtih care they heloped the very sick , some with dysentery. It is because of these men I decided to immigrate to this country not because of the goldene medina. They were finest men I ever met . The first call I heard from the passing armored vehicles was Yidden ir sent befreit. Recently during holocaust observance at a large federal agency I met a former soldier who was in a reconnaince unit and he was the first to enter Buchenwald
another lesson for you among the U.S. soldiers there were Yidden but mostly “goyim” yes fine Americans some even volunteered to destroy NaZISM. I saw a pilot in Buchenwald captured from a downed B 17 who later was killed. Yes these men fought Nazism and saved a minuscle of survirors from the rest who inhaled Zyklon B and were burned to ashes. Oh another lesson for some had a different facial hue too. All you bigots should have been one day in Buchenwald and smelled the stench fom the crematorium, and saw the lice infested dying Jews and some non-Jews an education as good as the daf yomi but it may destroy your appetite for cholent , all your other chazerei. When you go to the “treifene Zionist” medina visit the Yad Vashem not perfect but the next best thing. Not every Jew had the koach to come a keep shabbes few of us weere able but I don’t blamded al todin eyz chavero ad shetigaah limkomo