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| Enjoying a View from a Friend's Gathering. |
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| Appreciating New Growth in Our Gardens. |
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| Preparing Floats (here, my husband). |
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| ...in Good Company. |
The core is appreciating and paying respect to our Nation's warriors. This includes friends and strangers, men and women, to whom we owe so much. My husband and I also pay tribute to generations of our fathers and grandfathers who fought in so many wars, from World War II back to the Revolutionary War:
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| My Great Grandfather from The Spanish-American War... |
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| Some of our Civil War Grandparents (many now buried in at Gettysburg)... |
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| Our Grandparents and Great Grandparents buried in Arlington. |
This emotional dichotomy can present a paradox. But what reconciles the brightness of celebration and the gravitas of gratitude and respect may be a deepened commitment to the mission of stewardship.
The three word mission of WWII, as captured on the monument on The Mall, provides a high water mark for a worthwhile ambition for generations to come.
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| The Mission of WWII |
18 comments:
Lovely post! I also have great-grandparent's buried at Arlington and I wish I could be up there this Memorial Day Weekend. Happy Memorial Day!
have a Great Memorial Day
A lovely tribute.
An end to tyranny is such a noble goal. American history, much of it, is really something to be proud of. Here's to Memorial Day.
I love your post and your whole blog! I have been following yours for awhile now and decided to start my own because of you!
www.stewartjames.blogspot.com
your truly and inspiration
-StewartJames
The only goal and thank you for this post. So hard to say "Happy Memorial Day" as there is nothing "happy" about it, but this post provides justification. Thank you. Xoxo
The holiday is an interesting juxtaposition of joy and grief for us. We celebrated both children's birthdays this weekend and today continued our family tradition of participating in a run in honor of a young family friend who died 25 years ago of complications from a gunshot wound to the head in an attempted car jacking.
This was the 24th walk to benefit the Brain Injury Association (BIA) and the only two years I've missed were when I was giving birth! There is now a military presence in the run (I was left in their dust but enjoyed their cadence counts!) as BIA is especially attentive to the profound needs of returning soldiers who have sustained head injuries.
Loved the parade pics!
Lovely, simply lovely
We have a very large number of confederate ancestors who fought in the Civil War. My father has all of the letters my great, great(?) grandfather wrote back to his wife, and I am always moved by the eloquence of the writing style. Even one was written during a lul at Gettysburg (before he was captured and eventually died at Fort Lookout) in which he mentioned nothing of the atrocities he witnesses in order to keep his wife from worrying.
What wonderful photos! Thank you for sharing them. And in spite of the inherent gravitas of historic war photos, such pictures make the interesting point that men's fashions really haven't changed too much. (...Hats aside, perhaps.)
Muffy, lovely tribute!
In my family background, I had an avid DAR member grandmother from Newington, NH, A great great great uncle who served in the Union Navy on board the the famous USS Kearsage that sank the CSS Alabama, a grandfather who served in the Army Engineers in WW1, and my father was a Navy chaplain serving in the South Pacific during WW2.
@Royar - Thank you so much and I agree - that would be the place to be!
@Stu - Thank you!
@John - Likewise...
@LPC - Indeed!
@Stewart James - That's an incredible compliment. Thank you! I look forward to visiting yours.
@Preppy 101 - Thank you and well done on yours.
@M - Thank you so much for this comment. Very moving.
@Pete - Much appreciated.
@Birddog - How wonderful to have all of those letters! (Now that is a thoughtful husband.)
@Anonymous - I agree with you and find them interesting in many ways. Although those eyes on the last one always scared me as a child!
@j.mosby - What a wonderfully rich background. ( The USS Kearsarge caught my eye as we always "had" to climb Mt. Kearsarge years back.) I need to know more about your Newington ancestors. Maybe you are related to my husband!
Thanks for this post! I have ancestors that fought in all the major wars going back to the French and Indian War - my husband is a retired Marine and my son is an Army Officer. I love the photos of your ancestors. Thanks for sharing them.
JudyW
Wow! I missed the memo! "The Daily Prep" is on the blog roll at Brooks Brother's blog " Of Rouges and Gentlemen". A well deserved honor.
Muffy,
My Newington, NH family connection was my mothers, mother and her maiden name was "Hoyt". On that side of the family we're also related to John Alden ( my middle name), and John Quincy Adams. The family farm was located near the air force base Otis?
@j.mosby - Yes indeed, he has a direct line of Hoyts, going back to an original settler of Amesbury, MA (Sgt. John Hoyt) in the 1630s. I'll bet that's not the only overlapping NH line. He's got a about a million. John Quincy Adams - nice.
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