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“The Tomb Will Be Guarded Until We Can Identify Each One’s Remains”



May 25, 2009 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

From The Conservative Intelligence Report:

This is by far one of the best pieces I have ever seen. I remember it to this day and was glad I was able to find it. This should remind all this day is not about “not going to work and just grilling some hamburgers.”

Today we all have a job. We are not off! CONTINUE


  • Craig Elliott

    :twisted: fuck yeah forget none

  • Ranger7582

    Nice to see the Army in all it’s great traditions. No one gets left behind or is forgoten, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines :beer: :beer: :beer: Those fallen gave us or freedoms, it’s up to every one of us to keep it and to defend it, espically from the Manchurian Candidate Muslim we have in the White House :gun: :gun: :gun: :evil: :evil: :evil: Better to die fighting standing up, then to live in Muslim slavery on your knees :gun: :gun: :gun:

  • TerryTate

    I have had the honor of watching this ceremony.

    It is one of the most moving things I saw when I was in DC and I am better for having seen it.

    I highly recommend it to all.

  • mindy abraham

    i’ve never seen it, but they look amazing on youtube :sad:

  • WestCoastGirl

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly
    Scarce heard amid the guns below.

    We are the dead. Short days ago
    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
    Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
    In Flanders fields.

    Take up our quarrel with the foe:
    To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
    We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
    In Flanders fields.
    — Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 – 1918)

  • sudndeth

    Here is another story that I love!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcbGae487aM

    • grumpy mechanic

      Very cool, great story! :beer:

  • http://tvshogal.blogspot.com DangerGirl

    “Freedom Is Not Free”
    - Kelly Strong

    I watched the flag pass by one day.
    It fluttered in the breeze.
    A young Marine saluted it,
    and then he stood at ease.
    I looked at him in uniform
    So young, so tall, so proud,
    He’d stand out in any crowd.
    I thought how many men like him
    Had fallen through the years.
    How many died on foreign soil?
    How many mothers’ tears?
    How many pilots’ planes shot down?
    How many died at sea?
    How many foxholes were soldiers’ graves?
    No, freedom isn’t free.

    I heard the sound of TAPS one night,
    When everything was still
    I listened to the bugler play
    And felt a sudden chill.
    I wondered just how many times
    That TAPS had meant “Amen,”
    When a flag had draped a coffin
    Of a brother or a friend.
    I thought of all the children,
    Of the mothers and the wives,
    Of fathers, sons and husbands
    With interrupted lives.
    I thought about a graveyard
    At the bottom of the sea
    Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
    No, freedom isn’t free.

    Today, I am remembering those who fought & died not for the glory of war,but for the prize of freedom.
    Gone, but NEVER forgotten.
    Thank You.
    God Bless.

    “Memorial Day”
    – CW Johnson

    For this Memorial Day.
    To the names upon these crosses
    I just want to say,
    Thanks for what you’ve given
    No one could ask for more.
    May you rest with God in heaven
    From now through evermore.

  • Sarge

    I will be going to D.C. in two weeks and I know that visiting the Tomb and seeing the changing of the Guard in person will be one of the most memorable moments of my life!
    Thank you to all who have served our Nation!

  • NickD(ensignricky71)

    I saw the changing of the Guard a few years ago, it was either 2000 or 2001. It was the high point of the entire trip.