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I had 5 uncles in service during WWII: MY mother's 3 brothers Alonzo, Edgar, and George Chapman. And two brothers in law, Ray Nyhan and Richard Fish. All in the Navy except Uncle Ed, who was Army. (They called him "the traitor".) All returned home safely. The Chapman family lived in Waterloo, Iowa. Same neighborhood as the 5 Sullivan brothers, who were all lost when the cruiser Juneau was sunk by a Japanese submarine.
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In 1787 Elizabeth Willing Powell, the wife of Philadelphia mayor Samuel Powell, asked Benjamin Franklin what the Continental Convention had produced.
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Today, with solemn honor, I remember those throughout our history who have given their lives to “keep” our republic.
Speude Bradeos
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I went 45 shooting today. What better way to honor those who paid the ultimate price to guarantee my right to own and shoot firearms than to exercise that right.
My famiily lost 2 members over Germany in the 8th Air Force. One named Ebbert, the other Bitner. Their German surnames serve to remind me of who Americans are as a people. I was taught that we come from all corners of the Earth, seeking liberty and freedom to do as we chose without persecution due to our beliefs and the opportunity to be self governed. This is always in jeopary and comes with enormous cost.
The east-west main drag in my town is lined with flags this weekend. There are hundreds of them. Our war dead are not forgotten here.
The 45s by the way are 1911a1 models, one a Colt the other a Remington Rand from 1944 and 1945. While they never fail to put a smile on my face at the shooting range, I'm awfully glad it was not my duty to use them in combat.
My gratitude to those who did I'm unable to express in words.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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The tradition we celebrate as Memorial Day was begun as early as 1868, possibly as early as 1866, when Decoration Day was "instituted", to remember the fallen in the War Between the States. The name was later changed to Memorial Day, and enlarged in it's scope so that it is now is a way for us to honor the fallen from ALL wars in which American fighting men and women have been lost. A very solemn day for me, as there have been seven Hillis men lost in these wars.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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I recently discovered the website, Faces of the Wall, which contains photos, bios, and posts of folks commenting on the man behind the face. Often the posts are from men who served with the man who was killed in Vietnam. Touching to say the least. Gil https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/
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Thanks Gil, for the reference to the "Wall of Faces" site. I looked up a few gone but not forgotten friends. Yesterday was for remembering...Geo
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There is a very powerful diary online that recounts one bomber crew members service. The long term monotony, of days when not flying, with constant gun tearing down, stripping and repairs. Then the matter of fact recounting of missions, with lost friends and entire crews. Or the wounding and evacuation to hospital for recovery. Then the upping of missions numbers needed to rotate home. Or the brutal math, that at one point it was stastically impossible to fly enough missions to get home with days of 30-40% losses. Every lost friend was named and a little story was recounted so other could recall them. I read everyone of those stories because they truly deserve to be remembered. Truly.
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