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    Phantom Blooper
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    Memorial Day Liberty Brief.......

    This is Memorial Day weekend. You're going to head off to who knows where for a weekend filled with booze and questionable life choices.



    Normally, this is marginally acceptable behavior. This weekend is different. This is not your weekend....



    Every last one of you is still breathing, still drooling on the asphalt under you. Because you are still alive, it is categorically impossible for you to have given your life in honorable service to this great nation, to have given your last breath in shared misery and danger with those steely-eyed killers to your left and your right.



    This is not your weekend.



    This is a weekend to honor your heroes, those foul-mouthed, whiskey-swilling, hard-charging, squint-eyed bastards who made this shiat look easy.



    To honor those doe-eyed mama's boys who didn't live long enough to get married to a Clarksville Trailer-Manatee and rack up $120,000 in debt on a '93 Dodge Neon and a double-wide with a tree growing up through the bathroom, but who didn't pause to blink before applying deadly fire and violence of action when faced with a determined enemy.



    Go have a good time. Enjoy your weekend, but remember that it was purchased for you at great cost. Act in a manner worthy of their sacrifice.


    SEMPER FI!

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    Mongoose
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    Great words, Bloop.


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    Amen, brother!


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    Great speech! 90% will get it. 10% never do.


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    Memorial Day is not about barbeques and beer ... sadly, 99% of the population doesn't know that.


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    Have a good one Marines, we know what it is all about, Semper Fidelis.


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    Phantom Blooper
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    Memorial Day is a time to reflect upon those fallen American heroes who have given their lives to keep this nation safe..


    In many locales, Memorial Day has been sales,beach trips,BBQ's but not the reflection that it deserves.


    Memorial Day has been dubbed the unofficial start of summer.


    Many go to a beach,or park there is cold beer,soft drinks and alcohol flowing.


    Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken,ribs and all the fixings are in abundance with an impressive spread.


    The Marines,soldiers,sailors,airmen,and coast guard men and women that have fallen will never again have the chance to be with the families that most hold dearly in celebration this weekend.


    From 1776 to present day many fallen heroes have met their demise and the life was cut short in an instant.


    On the battlefield or in slumber many have gone before us and gave their lives so that we as a nation can continue to have the freedoms that we have now.


    From the Battle of the Brandywine,Valley Forge, the halls of Montezuma,the hills San Juan, the bloody farms of Gettysburg,Antietam and Shiloh, the fields of Normandy, the beaches and sands of Iwo Jima, the frozen tundra of Chosin Reservoir,Inchon and Pusan, to the jungles and paddies of Khe Sanh,and the Mekong Delta.


    From the peacekeeping mission in Beirut, and the liberation of the island of Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury.


    The Cold War, Persian Gulf.


    And now the present day battle in Iraq on the road to Fallujah, and the mountains and towns of Afghanistan.



    And all these fallen heroes died so that their comrades and the people of this free land could drink a beer and have a picnic with their families,something that these men and women will no longer be able to do.


    Let us take time on this weekend to reflect and memorialize our fallen brethren!


    Semper Fidelis!


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    Heroes never die. They live on forever in the hearts and minds of those who follow in their footsteps. Emily Potter, Semper Fidelis.


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    Natalie P
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    That was a very sad but beautiful video Rocky. It made me cry


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    Hard to find list of Marines KIA in Beirut but here is one for Memorial day
    http://www.usmcvietnam.net/MARINES-KIA-IN--BEIRUT.html


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