Memorial Day

[Tom Warner]

Dan history has been one of my passions for over 50 years especially
war history. The number of deaths in Iraq is a sore point with me
although I do agree with you. However the average american only
parrots what they hear every day in the media how many americans were
killed that day. And our soldiers have the very best body armor and
equipment the world has ever seen in battle and that is why the
deaths have been reduced to just over 3400!

Good thing we are not fighting the american civil war now for what
would the media do when the days death toll is reported as 20,000
americans killed and another 4000 horses and mules killed. I know the
WW2 veterans like my father were called the "greatest generation" so
what should we call those that were killed during our american Civil
war when many of them went into battle bare foot and just after they
took a piece of cloth and wrote their names on it, pinned it to the
breast and then marched into battle knowing they would be killed? How
quiickly we forget what this fantastic county is all about.

tom warner
vernon center,ny
1985 PT 40


At 12:19 PM 5/29/2007, you wrote:
>32 Army Air Defense Command
>Kaiserslautern, Germany
>1972-1975
>Sadly it seems today america cares more about the next American idol
>than how many soldiers are killed in Iraq.
>
>Dan Williams
>81FC35
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> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 12:51 PM
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> Fellows,
> It would be interesting to see how many of the forum are Veterans
> , years served, rank, war zones served in.
> Ernie, By the way I spent two years at Ft. Hood, Texas with 2nd
> Armored Division and a couple months at Ft. Carson, Colorado before
> shipping out in 65 for Vietnam.
> Howard Truitt
> Camilla, Ga.
> 86 PT40
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> > From: > > Date: 2007/05/28 Mon PM 01:15:44 EDT
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Memorial Day
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> > Ernie,
> > I too was named after an Uncle but one who died a tragic death
> in 1936. He was my dads only sibling. I was told he was a very good
> athlete and the summer between his junior and senior year he with
> some other ball players were working at the Georgia Packing Co.
> [later Sunnyland Packing Co] in Thomasville, Ga. to earn a little
> summer money. He was hooked in the leg with a meat hook which
> became infected and developed spinal mennengitus. and died. No
> antibiotics like today.
> > Howard Truitt SP4 - E4
> > US Army 63 - 66
> > Vietnam 65 - 66
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> >
> > > From: "Ernest Ekberg"
> > > Date: 2007/05/27 Sun PM 08:54:36 EDT
> > > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Memorial Day
> > >
> > > Monday is the day we remember all that have given the ultimate
> > > sacrifice for the defense of this country. Even more important for me,
> > > I was named after my uncle, who fought and never came home. His four
> > > other brothers fought and came home.
> > > Ernie Ekberg, SSGT, USAF, 67-71
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