{"id":1698,"date":"2008-05-20T06:53:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2008-05-20T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T17:21:17","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rochester Veteran sent this link last night<\/a> to a post he wrote about attending a Memorial Service in the Rochester, NY War Memorial commemorating his father among other veterans who had passed in the last year. It reminded me that this weekend is Memorial Day Weekend – one of my favorites here in DC.<\/p>\n

In 1868, General Order No. 11 of The Grand Army of the Republic declared the first Memorial Day observance at Arlington National Cemetary (formerly the Robert E. Lee plantation) with these words;<\/p>\n

Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.<\/p>\n

If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you can’t be here, a good way to show that you keep our fallen brethren in your heart is to contribute to the Memorial Day Foundation<\/a> which lays bouquets of flowers at every memorial in the city on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The first event we have in DC is on Sunday – the Rolling Thunder Ride to the Wall<\/a>. It starts at about noon from the Pentagon parking lot across the Potomac River to the Vietnam Memorial.<\/p>\n

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Then on Monday, at 11:00 is the President (or Vice President – I never know which shows up) laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, and then at 1PM is the wreath-laying at the Vietnam Memorial. At about two o’clock the National Memorial Day Parade<\/a> down Constitution Avenue starts.<\/p>\n

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If you’re going to be in town, email me and we’ll hook up (I even have a cell phone now). If not, check back here this weekend because I plan on having pictures and videos of all of these events, depending on how good my access is.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> I almost forgot this from my buddy Laurie at Soldiers Angels New York<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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The Alpha Co 2-108 Family Readiness Group (FRG) will be taking 7,000 steps \u2013each step representing 1 mile – to raise awareness of our deployed soldiers, as well as funding that will enable us to send care packages and have a \u201cWelcome Home\u201d party & formal banquet for the men, upon their return.<\/p>\n

WHERE & WHEN<\/p>\n

Date: Saturday May 24, 2008<\/p>\n

Time: Check-In 10am \u2013 10:45am (*Pre-Registration Required)<\/p>\n

Walk begins at 11am (Rain or shine)<\/p>\n

Place: Geneseo Armory, 34 Avon Rd. Geneseo , NY<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So all of you guys up there near Geneseo go say “Hey” to Laurie for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rochester Veteran sent this link last night to a post he wrote about attending a Memorial … Memorial Day (UPDATED)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}