Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:03:13 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: (LVC) "Lest we forget"
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Thanks Al
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Al Knoll <anasasi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I send this out from time to time.
>
> Here's something that will make your Memorial Day a little more memorable.
>
> Buy a dozen or so red carnations. Get that old 6 inch screwdriver
> out of the toolbox. Fire up that 20 year old Vanagon and drive to
> your nearest National Cemetary. You can find the locations on the
> web. If you have never visited a National Cemetery before, it will
> likely be a humbling, emotional experience so you should be prepared.
>
> Make it a family event if you like, tell the kids or the grandkids
> that you're taking the vanagon to a special place before the usual
> family festivities. Tell them that they are the flower children, and
> you will be looking for special stones.
>
> At the cemetary there are row on row of solemn white stones. Each
> has the name of the veteran or veteran's family member on it.
> You are looking for the special stones, those whose inscriptions
> indicate that the veteran was killed in combat. At most cemetaries
> each grave will have a small flag and many of these fallen combat
> soldiers will have flowers at their graves. Pass reverently by those
> graves, you are looking for a combat veteran whose grave has no
> flowers. At each of these graves you can use the screwdriver to make
> a small hole in the grass and place one of those hardy carnations in
> the the sod. Think for a moment about this particular fallen soldier
> and remind yourself that you, a stranger, remembered them on this
> memorial day. You will run out of flowers before you run out of
> stones.
>
> Before you leave, explain to your family what these veterans did and
> why the freedoms you enjoy today were paid for by the strangers
> beneath the stones.
>
> Should anyone ask, " Where have all your flowers gone?" you can reply
> "gone to the graveyard every one".
>
> Al Knoll c. 2000
> MAAGie 61-63 Proudly Served
>
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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
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