[f-AA] Memorial Day

[jcpa...@comcast.net]

A special Thank You to all the Vets on the list.

 

Jim

[Richard Murray]

Jim,

We thank you, but prefer to be remembered on Veterans Day, November 11th

Often confused, Memorial Day was set aside to remember those who died while in the service of our country. It was originally called Decoration Day.

I'm still very much alive unlike many of my comrades that didn't return from their service, and appreciate your thinking of them this day.

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:20 PM, <jcpa...@comcast.net> wrote:

A special Thank You to all the Vets on the list.

 

Jim

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[Tom Holmes]

Good time to think of the families of the ones that didn't come home alive.

Tom, in one piece, but crazy as a bed bug according to the love of my life!  ;-)

[Roger Anderson]

I always thought Ole George said it so well, what the burgers, dogs, and beer today is all about.   roger

 

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[Richard Holcombe]

If you haven't gone to stand there, do it.

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Not all who wander are lost.

[Roger Anderson]

You're right.  And I have. 

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From: "Richard Holcombe" <rhawley...@gmail.com>
To: "Aeronca" <aer...@westmont.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:24:52 AM
Subject: Re: [f-AA] #### Memorial Day

[CaptG...@aol.com]

 

Everyone needs to go there and see it and the Korean Memorial near to it.  My senior class in high school had 62 in it--7 left school early to join during Korea--4 returned--1 killed, 1 MIA, one died in prison camp. We had all grown up during the Great Depression and WWII.  We all participated in the Decoration Day ceremony at the local cemetery. Today's country is not the one I grew up in. Sorry to get off Aeronca's.

 

Doug

You're right.  And I have. 

[Jerry Eichenberger]

Doug –

You aren’t alone in your feelings about what’s happened to our country.

Jerry E.

[dickn...@ca.rr.com]

We remember an idealized view of our country. Small town America is what we think of. But the big city life has always been like what we see now. Remember the Zoot Suit battles qf the '40's. Then there is the racial problems that have always existed but swept under the carpet. There have always been dissidents in our country. It is just more visible now. But. as a former scout leader and Christian, I still see much good in our country.

Dick Winn
---- Jerry Eichenberger <jEiche...@ehlawyers.com> wrote:
> Doug -

[Jerry Eichenberger]

Dick -
While Columbus, OH isn't a big city like Chicago or New York, it isn't small town America either. I have lived here my entire life, and I'm now age 66. I went to a mixed race, inner city high school. Two of my best buddies were black guys because we didn't know back then in the early 1960s that we weren't supposed to like each other. At high school reunions, we still give each other a hug, except for one of them - his name is on the Vietnam Memorial wall in D.C. We had no racial problems at all.
As for bullying - one guy in high school had no arms - a birth defect, his little hands just protruded from the shoulders. He was well liked and was the manager of our football team. No one gave him any grief, and if one had, the bad kid would have faced our linemen and linebackers in a dark alley.
Our male teachers wore suits to school, except for only the shop and gym teachers. The women teachers wore heels, dresses or skirts, and necklaces. Both male and female teachers looked like and acted like professionals. Now teachers come to school in jeans and tennis shoes.
We had Christmas vacation; not winter break. Our school choir had a Christmas concert. Boys had to wear trousers with belts. Girls' skirts had to be at least knee length.
In summer, we left home early in the morning with our ball bats and gloves, and played all day. We ate lunch at some kid's house where his mother was at home, and fixed us our lunch. We didn't spend our days at a warehouse now called a day care center.
We didn't spend our evenings and summer days playing some horrible, violent computer game.
I'll have to remain in agreement with Doug - this isn't the country in which I grew up.
Jerry E.