Memorial Day Video

Thank you to all who have served and sacrificed for my freedoms
God Bless you

 A wonderful Video about Memorial Day from YouTube:

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day

A Heart Felt Thank You to all who have served to protect my freedoms.  God Bless

U.S. Navy

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I didn't know this.. Did you? Have you ever been in a cemetery and saw coins laying on a tombstone? There is actually a reason behind it.

COINS LEFT ON TOMBSTONES

While visiting some cemeteries you may notice that headstones marking certain graves have coins on them, left by previous visitors to the grave.

These coins have distinct meanings when left on the headstones of those who gave their life while serving in America's military, and these meanings vary depending on the denomination of coin.

A coin left on a headstone or at the grave site is meant as a message to the deceased soldier's family that someone else has visited the grave to pay respect. Leaving a penny at the grave means simply that you visited.

A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together, while a dime means you served with him in some capacity. By leaving a quarter at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the solider when he was killed.

According to tradition, the money left at graves in national cemeteries and state veterans cemeteries is eventually collected, and the funds are put toward maintaining the cemetery or paying burial costs for indigent veterans.

In the US, this practice became common during the Vietnam war, due to the political divide in the country over the war; leaving a coin was seen as a more practical way to communicate that you had visited the grave than contacting the soldier's family, which could devolve into an uncomfortable argument over politics relating to the war.

Some Vietnam veterans would leave coins as a "down payment" to buy their fallen comrades a beer or play a hand of cards when they would finally be reunited.

The tradition of leaving coins on the headstones of military men and women can be traced to as far back as the Roman Empire.

Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day Weekend!

Many of us (including me at time) forget that Memorial Day was not created so that we could have a 3 day weekend.  It was not created so American's could have a good reason to get together with their families. Rather, it was created to recognize and pay respect to American's who gave their lives for our freedom.  To show respect and gratitude to those families that sacraficed so much to protect the rights we enjoy.  I want to say a special thanks to those families who have lost their loved ones fighting for our country and to those that are still fighting for our rights.  Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

God Bless America!

 

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