Memorial Day
Today is Memorial Day, when we honor U.S. military personnel who died while serving our country. The men we show today all served in World War II. Above, Donald M. Fulton. He was in the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He died on July 10, 1943. He was posthumously awarded a Silver Star.
This is John Washington King. He was lost on August 15, 1942 near the Solomon Islands.
This is Louis F. Zimmerman of the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 341. He died on October 31, 1943 in a crash on the island of Savaii.
I am not showing these photos of naked servicemen to mock them – I think there is nothing shameful about their being naked – but to honor them.
This statue, called The Spirit of American Youth Rising From the Waves, is in the American Military Cemetery at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. Over 9000 men who were killed in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 are buried there.
A rear view of that statue. Today we honor those men and all the others who gave their lives for our country.
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