MEMORIAL DAY 2022

[CELLFISH]

 

[MOJOE]

cellfish ?? ?? ??,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,><)))):>
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[wader]

 

[wader]

 

[CELLFISH]

at the West Side near 42 street, The Intrepid Museum will have service at 10:00 wit a fly over…

+50 men were lost to kamikazes…

the Intrepid was saved from scrap pile… ??
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[wader]

at the West Side near 42 street, The Intrepid Museum will have service at 10:00 wit a fly over…

+50 men were lost to kamikazes…

the Intrepid was saved from scrap pile… ??
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Visited the Intrepid about 20 years ago. Impressive museum & stirring history.

 

[WhatKnot]

 

[wader]

it's absolutely maddening when I hear people wishing a Happy Memorial Day - it's not a "Happy Holiday"

 

[CELLFISH]

True: it should be “ Have A Blessed “ Memorial Day… cellie…
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[wader]

True: it should be “ Have A Blessed “ Memorial Day… cellie…
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or have a Reflective Day

 

[CELLFISH]

passed the INTREPID a short while ago on bike… cellie…
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[WhatKnot]

Lest We Forget

 

[JackPrintMD]

it's absolutely maddening when I hear people wishing a Happy Memorial Day - it's not a "Happy Holiday"

Just try to be happy people actually understand what it really is all about Or make sure to teach the ignorant.

 

[wader]

Just try to be happy people actually understand what it really is all about Or make sure to teach the ignorant.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Gettytsburg, PA

 

[wader]

if you can - give what you can - and please - don't wish people a Happy Memorial Day - it is not a
"happy holiday"

 

[Roccus7]

if you can - give what you can - and please - don't wish people a Happy Memorial Day - it is not a
"happy holiday"

After a huge scandal in 2016 I stopped giving to Wound Warrior and directed all my Veterans-associated donations to the Fisher House Foundation

Sorry, but screw with my money and our veterans, you get cutoff from my for life.

In case anyone has forgotten the WWP screw up from Fox News 3/10/2016:

Wounded Warrior Project executives fired in spending scandal​

Peter J. Johnson Jr on the firing of WWP's CEO and COO

The two top executives of the Wounded Warrior Project — among the largest veterans charities in the country — were fired Thursday after an investigation into accusations of lavish spending on parties, hotel and travel, according to a statement released on behalf of the embattled organization.

Wounded Warrior Project's CEO, Steven Nardizzi, and COO, Al Giordano, were fired by the charity's board amid criticisms about how it spent more than $800 million in donations over the last four years. The development was confirmed by Abernathy MacGregor, a public relations firm hired to represent the veterans charity.

“To best effectuate these changes and help restore trust in the organization among all of the constituencies WWP serves, the Board determined the organization would benefit from new leadership, and WWP CEO Steve Nardizzi and COO Al Giordano are no longer with the organization,” the statement said.

The statement also said a preliminary financial audit found that “some policies, procedures and controls at WWP have not kept pace with the organization’s rapid growth in recent years and are in need of strengthening.”

The charity came under fire after an earlier CBS News investigation in January revealed large amounts of spending on administration, meetings, and travel.

Nonprofit watchdog “Charity Navigator” says Wounded Warrior Project spends just 60 percent of its budget on veterans. The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation provides more than 98 percent to veterans. Charity Navigator also assessed that Wounded Warrior’s total revenue for 2014 was well over $340 million.

Army Staff Sergeant Erick Millette, who returned from Iraq in 2006 with a bronze star and a purple heart, told CBS News at the time he admired the charity’s work and took a job with the group in 2014 but quit after two years.

"Their mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors, but what the public doesn't see is how they spend their money," he said.

Millette said he witnessed lavish spending on staff, with big “catered” parties.

"Going to a nice fancy restaurant is not team building. Staying at a lavish hotel at the beach here in Jacksonville, and requiring staff that lives in the area to stay at the hotel is not team building," he told CBS News.

 

[WhatKnot]

Lest we forget

 

[JackPrintMD]

 

[wader]

Remember & Honor their sacrifice.

they do.........................

 

[jpd]

Brave men, RIP