Decoration Day

Today is the day that we sat aside to honor those in the military in particular those that paid the ultimate price so that we may be free. Here is the history of Memorial Day:

http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html

Now lets honor a different kind of hero:

http://www.pawnation.com/2012/05/25/amazing-war-hero-animals/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-nb%7Cdl15%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D162805

And share a story of a found soldier:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-pearce-rotondi/mia_b_1531691.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-nb%7Cdl14%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D164224

Then close with tributes to the soldiers from Junior High students

http://www.thewesterlysun.com/news/memorial-day-tributes-from-westerly-middle-students/article_85f7e128-a694-11e1-b412-0019bb2963f4.html

Comment Away

The picture is of my cousin Lt. Edward Grover Delong one of the few soldiers to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star. He was captured by the Japanese during WWII and beheaded. The movie They Were Expendable is about his troops. This the movie that gave Spielberg the inspiration to do Saving Private Ryan.