Memorial Day 2024

[ilikegunspdx]

Is there an air show near Pdx? Heard an unusual jet this morning really loud didn't sound like the usual f-15s. Also saw a formation of 8 WWII fighters flying in really close formation. I think some of them were replicas based on the adsb exchange. @Ura-Ki probably knows what these are. Too brief to see what they all looked like and too high. Adsbexchange only showed 2 overlapping planes but there were 8. Looked like acrobatic team or something maybe? Here is one from the adsbexchange map:
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Looks like it's an air show group basic on this old ground collision report:

Ground Collision: Van's RV-8, N526KP and Van's RV-8, N808LD; accident occurred July 08, 2021 at Hillsboro Airport (KHIO), Portland, Oregon

Aviation Accident Final Report - National Transportation Safety Board The National Transportation Safety Board did not travel to the sc...

www.kathrynsreport.com

 

[Old Dog]

The photo that made us all cry, Chief Jon Tumilson's funeral, his loyal dog Hawkeye. 30 Americans died in Afghanistan that day, August 6, 2011.



https://news.yahoo.com/news/blogs/l...mI398ubxI7aVE1jR4iFGUB9abbQ-hw5kvMpqhUkwq8fHb

 

[Member 74756]

I didn't see a thread for Memorial Day this year.

Mrs. Merkt and I have commented together over the years about the widespread misunderstanding about the basis for Memorial Day. Or Decoration Day, as it was sometimes called when I was a youngster up until into the 1960's some time.

The misunderstanding is, many people think it's a veteran's day equivalent. Yes, it's about some veterans, but only those who made the supreme sacrifice for the nation. Another misapprehension is that somehow it's a day to remember anybody who has died. I guess that's okay if it causes a person to have good memories of people departed.

Memorial Day is one of two weekends when we never venture forth. The other of these two holiday weekends is Labor Day. We are happy to celebrate at home. I will put my big US flag out but not many will see it from out along the road. We are set back some and there isn't much traffic.

and please don't thank me for my service and don't buy a frigging mattress.

 

[Dozer99]

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row.
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, M.D.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Is there an air show near Pdx? Heard an unusual jet this morning really loud didn't sound like the usual f-15s. Also saw a formation of 8 WWII fighters flying in really close formation. I think some of them were replicas based on the adsb exchange. @Ura-Ki probably knows what these are. Too brief to see what they all looked like and too high. Adsbexchange only showed 2 overlapping planes but there were 8. Looked like acrobatic team or something maybe? Here is one from the adsbexchange map:
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I know there are a Bunch of R/V flyers in Salem and all over the valley, might be a group of them got together for a fly over! Also, the ANG out of PDX usually does flyovers in their F-15's , so the jets you heard were likely them!

 

[Meridian7750]

Almost feeling as though there just aren't many of us left that feel this way...

More than you know.
We just need to find our voice again.
It will happen

 

[Sharkey]

Meanwhile, part of the "Squad" were deleting tweets today.....

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Meanwhile, part of the "Squad" were deleting tweets today.....

MSN

www.msn.com

I don't click links that just say "MSN". Deleting tweets about the trans person stabbing 4 girls and 2 others you mean?

 

[CO136]

Almost feeling as though there just aren't many of us left that feel this way...

Yeah, get the feeling as well... Here's hoping you and I are both wrong as I'm thinking there is a whole bunch of good folks left in this country that will stand as needed. Reckon I gotta stay tuned...

 

[Sharkey]

I don't click links that just say "MSN". Deleting tweets about the trans person stabbing 4 girls and 2 others you mean?

Yeah that is the way Edge copies links and some sites show more than just MSN. I guess this one doesn't. I also posted to LI and a lot more of the story was posted.

They deleted tweets regarding Memorial Day hence me posting in this thread. They apparently don't know the difference btw Memorial Day and Veterans Day and apparently neither do any of their staff.

 

[Midasknight]

My best friends Father:

Robert Steven Clements
Private First Class
3RD PLT, B CO, 1ST BN, 35TH INFANTRY, 4TH INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Seattle, Washington
September 09, 1948 to November 29, 1969

https://www.virtualwall.org/dc/ClementsRS01a.htm

 

[Provincial]

Here is a link to a very good Memorial Day speech given by Captain Bill Toti, a retired US Navy submarine commander and co-host of the "Unauthorized History of the Pacific War" Youtube podcast.

Simple, straightforward, and elegant.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiQqr5I_pwo